Ahlawat hits hundred in Dorairajan Trophy

NAGPUR: Dharmender Ahlawat slammed a brilliant hundred to rescue Navniketan Club against Ruby Sporting Club on the opening day of the MN Dorairajan memorial cricket tournament at the VCA Kalamna ground here on Wednesday.
At stumps, Navniketan were 204 for 9 in 69 overs thanks mainly to Ahlawat, who hit eight fours and seven sixes in his 102-run knock.
In other matches, Mujumdar Cricket Club piled up 318 against Lipton at the Ambedkar College ground. At SB City ground, Reshimbag Gymkhana struggled against XI Star.
Earlier, the fifth edition of the tournament was inaugurated by Murthy Rajan and Sharad Padhye.
Brief Scores
Ambedkar College Ground: Mujumdar (1st Inng) 318 in 80.1overs (Sachin Shende 168, Vedant Ingle 39, Atharva Manohar 29, Agam Kohli 27; Atharva Deshpande 4-90, Ankit Deshmukh 2-36) vs Lipton.
SBCity Ground: Reshimbag Gymkhana (1st Inng) 188 in 78.1 overs (Kuldeep Salve 60, Anup Fulper 34, Varun Palandurkar 19; Mohd Karim 5-44, Raj Choudhary 2-54) vs XI Star.
VCA Kalamna Ground: Navniketan (1st Inng) 204-9 in 69 overs (Dharmender Ahlawat 102, Akshay Wadkar 26, Mohit Kale and Pravin Naktode 17 each; Madhusudan Acharya 4-55, Parth Shedeo 3-59, Nitesh Choudhary 3-25) vs Ruby Club.
VCA Civil Lines Ground: MSSC (1st Inng) 289 (Vikrant Gonnade 104, Bhushan Talmale 55, Sanket Wekhadde 53; Nilesh Nawnage 5-71, Shahnawaz Khan 2-69, Jaisingh Baghel, Faiyyaz Alam, Janmajay Acharya 1 wkt each) vs Advocate XI 5-0.