Railway teams rule the roost in VCA Corporate Trophy

NAGPUR: Former Vidarbha Ranji Trophy skipper P Vivek (51) and Chandrashekhar Atram (44) shared an opening stand of 95 to steer South East Central Railway (SECR) derail Nirmal Urban Co-Op Bank by six wickets in the Corporate Cup (GK Kelkar T20) Cricket tournament at the VCA Civil Lines ground here on Monday.
Nirmal, who shocked AGRC on Sunday, were restricted to 126 thanks to a splendid bowling by pacer Praful Meher, who bagged 4 wickets.Akshay Wadkar was the top scorer with 53, while Kuldeep Salve contributed 26.
SECR romped home with six wickets and seven balls to spare as Vivek and Atram made the light of Nirmal bowling attack.
Another Railway outfit – Central Railway – also notched up easy victory by thrashing MOIL by nine wickets.
In other matches, AGRC crushed JSW Steel Ltd by 10 wickets, while Union Bank prevailed over Axis Bank with similar margin.
Brief Scores:
Nirmal Urban Co-op Bank 126-8 in 20 overs (Akshay Wadkar 53, Kuldeep Salve 26; Praful Meher 4-22) lost to SECR 129-4 in 18.5 overs (P Vivek 51, C Atram 44; Rushabh Rathore 3-29) by 6 wickets.
JSW Steel Ltd 54 in 17.4 overs (Chetan Rangari 14, Ashwin Bagde 12; Azhar Sheikh 3-10) lost to AGRC 57-0 in 4.5 overs (Akshay Kolhar 29 no, Azhar Sheikh 21 no) by 10 wickets.
MOIL 59 in 17.3 overs (Shailesh Harbade 3-3, Salil Agarkar 2-20) lost to Central Railway 62-1 in 5 overs (Praveen Shetty 29, Amit Paunikar 27 no) by 9 wickets.
Axis Bank 65 in 20 overs (Sanket Asare 14, Kapil Bhatra 12; Ajay Yadav 5-20, Siddhesh Neral 3-10) lost to Union Bank 66-0 in 10 overs (R Sanjay 36 no, Viplav Junghare 26 no) by 10 wickets.