Iqbal’s all-round show helps DY Patil win

Mumbai: A superb all-round performance by experienced left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah (68 & 5-48) helped DY Patil Sports Academy beat PJ Hindu Gymkhana on the basis of first innings lead in a Kanga League ‘A’ Division game at the Brabourne Stadium in the Cricket Club of India on Sunday.
Iqbal slammed a half-century to help DYP SA declare at 218-4, and then took a five-for to spin out PJ Hindu Gymkhana for 105.The 32-year-old, who has taken 220 wickets in 71 First-Class games, besides scoring 2641 runs (including 3 hundreds and 13 fifties), played for Mizoram last season, and for Uttarakhand in the season before that. “I want to play for Mumbai again. I feel I can still perform well at the First-Class level for Mumbai,” Abdullah told TOI. He will, however, have to serve a one-year mandatory cooling-off period, and can only play for Mumbai next season.
Brief Scores: Parkophene Cricketers 251-9 decl (Prasad Pawar 111, Dhanit Raut 63; Sarfraz Shaikh 3-27, Rushikesh Jadhav 3-74) drew with Regal CC 143-7 (Jaya Davane 57; Himanshu Singh 3-49).Mumbai Police Gymkhana 63 (Atif Attarwala 4-16, Musheer Khan 3-15, Badrey Alam 3-31) lost to Payyade SC 200-3 decl (Japjeet Randhawa 93, Bhupen Lalwani 92).National CC 215-8 decl (Swapnil Pradhan 47, Sumeet Dhekale 37, Saeed Shaikh 35) drew with MIG CC 44-4.Dr DY Patil SA 218-4 decl (Iqbal Abdullah 68, Subramanian Doraiswami 63, Srujan Athawale 35) & 31-0 beat PJ Hindu Gymkhana 105 (Bins Neyyoth 47; Iqbal Abdullah 5-48).Karnataka SA 234-9 decl (Ramanpreet Ghoman 100*, Sahil, Vighnesh Solanki 43, Jadha 33; Akshay Jambhekar 6-64) drew with New Hind SC 21-2.Sind SC 124 & 69-3 decl (Adeeb Usmani 30; Yash Dicholkar 5-22, Siddharth Raut 3-27) los to Parsee Gymkhana 125-1 decl (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 65*, Aakarshit Gomel 39).Shivaji Park Gymkhana 237-5 decl (Jayesh Pokhare 98, Sahil Gode 64) drew with Cricket Club Of India 166-3 (Akash Anand 74*, Sujit Nayak 54*).