Times Shield: Shastri's all-round show lifts Nirlon

MUMBAI: Ankit Shastri's fine all-round show helped Nirlon thump BMC Kreeda Bhavan in a Times Shield 'C' Division match on Thursday.
Shastri's 4-29 restricted BMC to 255 despite Sandesh Paralkar's 116. Shastri, then contributed with a fluid 95 to help his side take a first innings lead.
Brief scores 'C' division: Tata Steel (W.D) 162 (K Meher 58, N Surve 6-61) & 211-5 (S Bhoir 83, K Dawane 34, K Meher 33) lost to Western.Railway`A' 183 (S Khanolkar 39, K More 30, H Desale 3-35, A Chunawala 3-55) on first innings; New India Assurance 66 & 87 (K Joshi 46, K Sawant 3-16, Padmanabhan M 3-7) lost to Serco `B' 182- 3 ( K Shah 84, R Naik 51*) on first innings; Mafatlal SC 197 (V Parmar 155*, Sanket Jadhav 46; Sandip Nimse 5-66, Jay Dhuri 3-76) lost to Mumbai Div. Sports Ass. 211-9 (Kamran Choudhari 49, Sarfraz Khot 37, Mahesh Dawre 45*; V Parmar 4-53, Meghan P 3-78) on first innings; BMC Kreeda Bhavan 255 (M Aarekar 56, S Paralkar 116; Harshal 3-65, A Shastri 4-29) & 20-2 lost to Nirlon S.C. 279 (A Shastri 95, H Halbe 50, S Singh 45, A Revandkar 64; S Pawar 3-46, S Dande 5-74) on first innings; Air-India 210 (S Dube 92, P Amre 41; V Mungekar 5-83) drew with Dr. Balabhai Nanavati 200-9 (V Rajan 99, Nirbhay Sharma 32; Diwakar Shetty 4-52); Dena Bank 198 (L Ramane 42, S Singh 46, V Raghavan 31, P Sawant 39*; D Jagadiya 3-24) & 161-3 (L Ramane 43, S Sing 59, R Rane 51) beat RBI SC 125 (A Ghaghre 37; P Sawant 4-20) on first innings; Chowgule SC 206 (S Singh 102; A Yadav 3-55, S Ghule 5-80) & 31-0 lost to Union Bank SC 218 (A Parte 32, S Sangle 84, S Ghule 36, A Yadav 36; P Bhargude 5-08) on first innings.