Central Railway wins on 1st innings despite a 2nd innings comeback by BPCL in the A Div Times Shield’19

BPCL after opting to bat first were in a huge shock after getting all out for mere 69 runs in 1^st innings. Central Railway bowlers did an excellent job in rattling a prolific line up of BPCL in a two digit total. All-rounder Manish Rao with 3/29 was the pick of the bowlers.

Central Railway Sports Assn. in reply received a equal fightback from the BPCL bowlers where they eventually declared their innings at 134/9 not giving the pleasure of ‘all-out’ tag to the BPCL bowlers. Sylvester D Souza came up with an impressive spell taking a brilliant 5/61 along with Shivam Malhotra’s 3wkts.

BPCL in the 2^nd innings came back hard with the bat notching up 333 runs on the board with Aakarshit Gomel scoring a classy 114 off 213 balls laced with 15 boundaries. This was Gomel’s 1^st ton for BPCL but overall he has scored a good amount of reasons this season across all the tournaments.

Uday Kaul scored a gritty 54 while Akhil Herwadkar came good with a solid 57 as BPCL found some base in 2^nd innings. Vidyadhar Kamat with 5/87 was the pick of the bowlers coming up with an accurate bowling spell.

Central Railway were 68 for no loss with opener Gandhar Bhatwadekar batting on 37* when the match ended on 3^rd day. Central Railway won the match on 1^st innings while it was surely a good comeback by the BPCL boys in the 2^nd innings. A day or two more in the game could have surely made the competition intense and it would have been interesting to see Central Railway chasing.