Skipper Dinesh Karthik’s stroke-filled century (108, 88b, 8x4, 5x6) and L. Balaji’s handsome returns of five for 40 enabled India Cements score a thrilling 10 run victory over State Bank of Mysore in the last group ‘D’ league match of the BCCI Corporate tournament for the Raj Singh Dungarpur Trophy at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday.
With an undefeated run in the four-team league, India Cements qualified for the semifinals, where it will meet CAG — which made it to the knock-out from group ‘B’.
While this semifinal will be played at the MCA-BKC facility here on Thursday, last year’s winner Chemplast (from group ‘A’) will play BPCL (from group ‘C’) in the second semifinal at Motera on the same day.
The scores: At Mumbai: India Cements 298 in 49. 4 overs (Abhinav Mukund 45, Baba Aparajith 41, Dinesh Karthik 108, V. Yomahesh 33, Chetan Kulkarni six for 29) bt State Bank of Mysore 288 in 49.4 overs (Mir Kaunan Abbas 60, Pavan Deshpande 60, Anirudh Joshi 76, L. Balaji five for 40, P. Amarnath three for 61, Yomahesh two for 39).
Air India 238 for nine in 50 overs (Sushant Marathe 52, Mohd. Kaif 57, Sachin Rana 72 n.o., Rishi Dhawan two for 48, Javed Khan two for 46, Vinay Choudhary three for 43) lost to Food Corporation of India 241 for seven in 43.3 overs (Paras Dogra 31, Nitin Saini 103, Sonu Sharma three for 44).
At Ahmedabad: Chemplast 286 for nine in 50 overs (Mayank Agarwal 74, Robin Bisht 72, R. Sathish 64, Piyush Chawla 34, A.K. Argal two for 51, Iresh Saxena two for 63) bt Indian Income Tax 204 in 30.4 overs (Jay Desai 56, Anand Subramanian 51, Rohit Dahiya 37, Piyush Chawla five for 54, P. Parameshwaran four for 49).
Andhra Bank 237 in 48.5 overs (Ravi Teja 45, Hanuma Vihari 74, Neeraj Bisht 43, Arjun Yadav 37, Murtaza Hussain two for 52, Rohan Raje three for 46, Amit Dani four for 41) bt Indian Oil 224 in 48 overs (Pinal Shah 76, Mandar Phadke 39, Amit Dani 26, S. M. Shoaib two for 41, Amol Shinde two for 40, Lalith Mohan three for 42, Hanuma Vihari two for 44).
At Vadodara: BPCL 283 for nine in 50 overs (Bhavin Thakkar 158, Uday Kaul 46, Rohit Mehra three for 48, Saurabh Sarkar three for 68) bt BSNL 167 in 38.3 overs (G. Satish 37, Kamlesh Makwana 37, Abhishek Nayar five for 41, Pragyan Ojha two for 34, Kiran Adav two for 10).
Canara Bank 268 for five in 50 overs (K.B. Pawan 151 n.o.) lost to State Bank of Hyderabad 272 for six in 47.1 overs (Anirudh Singh 145 n.o., S. Ahmed Quadri 55 n.o.).
At Nagpur: ONGC 174 in 35.5 overs (Mithun Manhas 84, Rituraj Singh three for 38, Saurya Shanadiya three for 35) lost to CAG 178 for seven in 48. 3 overs (Ankur Julka 57 n.o., Avi Barot 44, Amit Bhandari three for 36, Suhail Sharma two for four).
State Bank of Travancore 322 for five in 50 overs (K.J. Rakesh 119 n.o., Kevin Oscar 78, P.M. Anfal 40, Sony Cheruvathur 36, Sunil Sam two for 88) lost to MRF 323 for eight in 49. 4 overs (Y. Gnaneshwara Rao 94, Venugopala Rao 56, Varun Aaron 34, K.J. Rakesh two for 22, P.U. Anthaf two for 74).
