Girish bags a brilliant fifer while Ved (61) & experienced Sachin Sanghvi (64) hold fort for New Hindu CC in the D Div Kanga League’19

New Hindu CC team after being put to bat first at Matunga Gymkhana (Dadkar Maidan) batted really well notching up 218/8 Dec in 55 overs. Openers Vedprakash Jaiswal (61 off 124 balls) and Pratik Patil (35 off 49) gave a solid start of 67 runs while it was their skipper Sachin Sanghvi at no.5 scoring a timely half century. Sachin scored a crucial 64 off 82 balls laced with 4 boundaries & 3 sixes, an innings which can be best described as a knock of controlled aggression as he dealt the bad balls with authority while also responsibly dodged the tough ones. Sachin was nicely supported by Manesh Bhogle who scored 34 runs & stitched an 80 run stand with the skipper. Medium pacer Satish Shinde with 6/88 in 20.2 overs was the pick of the lot for Matunga Gymkhana as he came up with timely breakthroughs despite lacking support from the other end.

Matunga Gymkhana who boast of an equally promising batting line up were made to struggle on their own den thanks to a brilliant bowling spell by Girish Kocharekar.

The medium pacer came up with the best bowling figures of his division this season & without a doubt amongst the top 5 spells across all divisions conceding mere 7 runs for his 5 wkts with as many as 9 maidens in a spell of 11 overs. Girish was spot on with the ball but it was Matunga Gymkhana’s good luck that they escaped a narrow defeat with 2 wkts in hand at the end of the day’s play.

Matunga Gymkhana were 48/8 in 27 overs at the end of the game’s play as the match ended in a draw.