Maha women out of T20 meet

Pune: Maharashtra’s charmed life in the Women’s T20 Trophy came to an end at Alur stadium, Bengaluru, on Tuesday. Vidarbha girls defeated them by seven wickets with 10 balls to spare and knocked them out of the tournament. Maharasthra had qualified for the quarterfinals despite losing to Himachal Pradesh and Delhi in the group phase. Himachal were done in by two washed out games in Surat but they defeated Tripura and Andhra to make it to the semifinals.
Put in to bat, Maharashtra scored only 112-5 with captain Tejal Hasabnis top scoring with 49 off 48 balls (5x4s). India international Devika Vaidya scored 25 off 33 balls with one four but the scoring rate never got going. But it wasn’t an outright ordinary batting effort by Maharashtra considering they were 14-3 in the sixth over.
Captain Disha Kasat first won an important toss for Vidarbha and then controlled the chase well with an unbeaten 53 off 48 balls. Vidarbha had won five of the six group games. Maharashtra were without opener and U-19 captain Ishwari Savkar in this game as she is a part of India ‘A’ team in the U-19 Challenger Trophy.
Muley wins U-17 District TT crown
Seventh seed Neil Muley lost only two games and won 12 as he dominated the U-17 section of the District Ranking table tennis tournament at Ekam Academy, Rahtani. Neil defeated top seed Pranav Gholkar 11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 11-3, 13-11 in the title clash.
Shouren Soman (boys’ U-15), Radhika Sakpal (girls’ U-19), Aditya Jori (boys’ U-19) and Aryan Panse (men) won the other titles.
Top seed Panse struggled to get past 10th seed Arnav Zagde in the final but eventually came through 9-11, 11-13, 11-7, 14-12, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7 in a humdinger.
Pardeshi, Dhruvi cause upsets
Arjun Pardeshi and Dhruvi Adyanthaya caused upsets at the AITA Championship Series Under-14 ranking tennis tournament, organized by AIM Tennis Academy at Navsahyadri Krida Sankul Tennis Courts.
In the boys' event, Arjun ousted fifth seed Aniket Choubey 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
In the girls' section, Dhruvi knocked Maharashtra statemate Rishita Patil 6-3, 7-5.