Ashley D Souza bags fifer & Arjun Dani smashes 131 in KC Mahindra Shield Tournament’21

Played at the MCA SRT Kandivali Cricket Ground in Mumbai,  Dattu Phadkar XI opting to bat first scored 305 runs in 1^st innings with half centuries registered by Dasrath Chavan (60 runs) and Rajsingh Desmukh (85 runs). From the bowlers, Aditya Giri and Ayush Zimare bagged 3 wickets each. Vijay Manjrekar Xi in their 1^st innings registered 289 runs with opener Aditya Giri (60 runs) and Jay Jain (52 runs) smashing half centuries. Spinner Ashley D Souza bowled a very impressive spell coming up excellent bowling figures of 5/77 in 19 overs.

Dattu Phadkar XI in their 2^nd innings again put up a solid show notching up 324/9 in 64 overs courtesy an impressive hundred by their no.3 batsman Arjun Dani. Arjun played an aggressive knock of 131 runs in 108 balls smashing 14 fours and 10 sixes with a strike rate of 121.30. Arjun dominated the bowlers in every corners of the ground as he displayed a rain of sixes in his quick hundred. Apart from Arjun, wicket-keeper Vedprakash Jaiswal who already has a hundred to his name this season in Mahindra Shield scored 71*off 119 balls batting till the very end.

Vijay Manjrekar XI in reply batted for 14 overs with 9 wickets in hand before the match ended in a draw with Dattu Phadkar XI taking 1^st innings lead.