Ankit Shastri Scores A Match Saving Century Against Central Railways

Hailing from a cricketing family, Ankit is one of the talented cricketers we can one across at local level. Cricket runs in his blood and so is the hunger to score and prove. Playing against Central Railways, Nirlon won the toss and elected to field first since the pitch was moist and tricky to bat on. In fact the first day of this 3 day game of the Times B Division of the Times Cricket Shield Tournament was washed off because of bad pitch.

Putting the opposition to bat first, Central Railways did put up a good show making 381 Runs including a good 150 from Pravin Shetty. Nirlon had a huge task for sure after a good performance from Central Railways & in came Ankit Shastri who played a gem of an innings. As he himself said, the pitch was tough to bat on and the ball was moving on a moist wicket, hence all Ankit was looking for was to spend time at the crease and stitch good partnerships.

Not only did he created good partnerships and spent adequate time at the crease, he also scored a fighting century scoring 108 off 153 balls which surprisingly had as many as 18 boundaries. Left Hander Ankit who is known to be dashing and a penchant to score big runs played a perfect match winning knock to draw the match from a situation where his team could have also lost the game. Though he did faced some initial trouble from pacers like Kushal Kakkad & Vinit Dhulap but he eventually faced them & scored runs at the right time.

Fresh from a century against Central Railways, Ankit will be certainly into the spying eyes of the bowlers for his upcoming match against Intelenet!