Dhawan’s 39 in vain as DY Patil Blue go down in thriller

Mumbai: Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan’s 39 runs went in vain as his side DY Patil Blue lost by just one run to Tata Sports Club in the 18th edition of DY Patil T20 Cup at the DY Patil Ground in Talegaon on Wednesday. Thursday is a rest day.Brief Scores: Group B: Tata Sports Club 185-9 in 20 overs (Apoorva Wankhede 83*, Chinmay Sutar 51; Vipul Krishnan 4-42, Ajay Singh 2-32) bt DY Patil Blue 184-7 in 20 overs (Shubham Dubey 42, Shikhar Dhawan 39, Nutan Goel 38*, Abhijit Tomar 30; Vivek Shelar 2-28, Aditya Dhumal 2-45). Group C: Bank of Baroda 151-8 in 20 overs (Rohan Kadam 76 n.o.; Manoj Bhandage 3-34) lost to Canara Bank 152-8 in 19.4 overs (MG Naveen 47 n.o., Pallav Kumar Das 31; Kushang Patel 2-19, K Gowtham 2-27)-by two wicketsAdvani, Ishpreet advance Reigning champion Pankaj Advani beat Taha Khan 4-1 (120-1, 68-58, 130-1, 43-81, 69-1) in a best-of-7-frame first round match of the Rs 12.5 lakh prize-money CCI Snooker Classic on Tuesday.Ishpreet Singh Chadha beat Neeraj Kumar 4-0 (93-13, 73-53, 88-13, 86-7) while Habib Sabah of Bahrain defeated Abhijeet Ranade 4-0 (82-0, 74-6, 57-53, 80-7).Sporting Union, Europem winBhavana Sanap (98) and Riya Pawar (81) shone with the bat to help hosts Sporting Union and Europem win their opening league ties against Matunga Gymkhana and Oriental CC respectively in the 4th Ajit Ghosh Trophy women’s T20 cricket tournament on Wednesday.Brief Scores: Sporting Union 189/5 in 20 overs (Bhavana Sanap 98, Ankita Pawar 29, Divya Chalwad 2/20) bt Matunga Gymkhana 78 in 14.2 overs (Anisha Kamble 37; Tvisha Shetty 2/9, Renita Goriya 2/13). Europem 186/4 in 20 overs (Riya Pawar 81) bt Oriental CC 152/6 in 20 overs (Nidhi Kolhe 25; Sanaya Joshi 34, Arya Lokhande 4/29).
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