Victory for Mumbai Police as Shinde shines with bat and ball

MUMBAI: Santosh Shinde turned in a match-winning performance, helping Mumbai Police enter the semifinals of the Purshottam Shield cricket tournament.
He first bagged five Victory wickets for 81 runs and then hit 89 as he and Shrikant Limbole (106) guided their team to a four-wicket victory on Sunday.
The day's batting honours went to Sahil Kukreja (189) of Cricket Club of India who also entered the semifinal.CCI hit up 333 against National at Cross Maidan. The others to enter the last four were Shivaji Park Gymkhana who beat Fort Vijay by seven wickets at Shivaji Park Gymkhana.
Brief scores: Fort Vijay 221-9 in 67 overs (H Halbe 69, Pankaj Jaiswal 67, Gaurav Chavan 51, P. Dhake 4-74, Gautam Yadav 4-39) lost to Shivaji Park Gymkhana 275-3 in 57.2 overs (S Ahmad 41, Larsen D'Costa 105*, Shreyas Khanolkar 36, H. Shetye 72*). CCI 333 in 58.3 overs (Sahil Kukreja 189, S Nayak 30, Anand Singh 61; Satish Shinde 7-53) bt National 246 in 54.5 overs (Swapnil Pradhan 137*, Y. Dumal 70). Victory 286-9 (Aditya Tare 37, Parag Madgaikar 37, V Kamat 45, Dhaval Parab 91* J Baria 41; Santosh Shinde 6-81) lost to Mumbai Police 290-6 in 63.5 overs (Srikant Limbole 106, Santosh Shinde 88). 3rd round: DY Patil Sports Academy 361-8 in 70 overs (Shoaib Shaikh 130, D Subramaniam 107, Vinit Indulkar 61; Amit Dani 3-76, Vinit Dhulap 3-119) beat MIG 175 in 54.1 overs (Sandesh Paralkar 30, P Shaw 30; Pushkaraj Chavan 5-59).