Jaykishan Kolsawala

Though Baroda lost finals against Gujarat in the recently concluded Kenya tri-series, it may have got solutions for its opening pair woes and shortage of all-rounders.

In a group C game of the B' Division Times Cricket Shield Tournament, Mumbai Zone won by first inning lead against Mafatlal Cricket Club. Karan Vasodia's fine century helped. Brief scores are as follows: Group A: Mumbai Port Trust SC 295/1021 (Vishwanath Parmar 61 not out, Ravindra Solanki 31 not out, Hitesh Parmar 666 not out, Dashrath Chavan 305 not out, on 1st innings lead) Group B: Space Cricket SC 293/802d (Ruturaj Sane 37 not out, Siddhant Singh 63 not out, Siddhant Mhatre 314 not out, Kunal Kamachandani 457 not out, by 8 runs) Group C: Mafatlal Cricket Club 299/1022 (Karan Vasodiya 168 not out, Vishwanath Parmar 6140 not out, on 1st innings lead) Group D: Western Railway SA 143/1353 (Rohan Bhosale 70 not out, Rohan Bhosale 80 not out, lost to Teleperformance Dibs 3228d Jaykishan Kolswala 39 not out, Ajit Yadav 33 not out, R

Young cricketers from the city, who slogged it out in the middle for the last one year, got their due on Friday when Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) awarded them with trophies and cash prizes.

In the second round of the Times Cricket Shield, Mumbai played against Nirlon Sports Club. Nirlon were at 131/4 in their first innings, while Mumbai were at 273/9. Nirlon replied with 457 runs in their second innings, while Mumbai managed to score 480 runs. There were also some big innings by some players: Aditya Srivastava (Route Mobile Ltd., at 46 runs), Vishal Dhagaonkar (Agli India Ltd., at 40 runs), Nikhil Naik (Yogesh Dicholkar's team, at 37 runs), and Yogesh Sawant (Vishwanath Parmar's team, at 41 runs). Finally, in the fourth innings, Dmcc scored 143 runs against Nirlon, winning the game by 214 runs.