Akash Anand misses out on twin hundreds as Dilip Vengsarkar XI wins in the U23 Shalini Bhalekar Tournament ‘18

Dilip Vengsarkar XI batting first at Islam Gymkhana scored a more than decent total of 304/10 in 85.2 overs as their opener Akash Anand led from the front with a classy 115 off 254 balls. Akash looked rock solid toiling hard between the wickets while he also got good support from Japjeet Singh Randhawa who scored a timely 74.

Chandrashekhar Pant XI were in reply all out for 191 runs as Shubham Pandey bowled a match winning spell of 5/28 in 12.1 overs. Dilip Vengsarkar XI batting again in 2^nd innings were off to a stunning start by their openers as they stitched a 178 run stand with Akash just missing out by 2 runs on what could have been twin hundreds in both the innings of a test match which is a great feat. His opening partner Kaushik Chikhlikar scored a sublime 103 off 230 balls while Nikhil Patil scoring a 41 ball 59 at the middle order.

Dilip Vengsarkar were 299/5 in 2^nd innings before the end of the game’s play winning the match on 1st innings lead.