MUMBAI, December 23: Promising youngster Dinesh Sabnis shone as Mumbai Customs scored an innings and 162-run win over Oriental Insurance with a day to spare in the B Division of the Times Shield cricket league.

Sabnis, who had claimed five wickets on the opening day, bagged another 4 today in addition to scoring 34.

Brief scores

Group A: B Arunkumar Sports 322 (Praful Dhule 48, Sudhir Sawant 39, Santosh Jadhav 74, Prashant Gawde 77; Jayant Sawant 3-88) vs Bank of Maharashtra 202 for 5 (Usman Gani batting 74); Dena Bank 457 (Nilesh Masurkar 128, Kersi Pavri 112; Anthony Dias 64; Raju Shirke 3-88 Gautam Pagare 4-121) vs Bank of India 103 (Vinod Raghavan 4-39, Anthony Dias 4-20) and 83 for 4 (Jayesh Dadarkar batting 37).
Group B: Oriental Insurance 140 (R Kaushal 54, H Puthran 35; Dinesh Sabnis 3-65, U Gotkhindikar 3-34) and 55 (Dinesh Sabnis 4-32) lost to Mumbai Customs 363 (Sunil More 45, Shekhar Samant 80, Chetan Nimokar 37, Bharat Karnik 63, Dinesh Sabnis 34, Premanand Kinlekar 34 n.o.; Vinod Kini 3-87, Jasbir Mankoo 4-52) by an innings and 168 runs; Chowgule 148 (Abrar Khan 66; Manish Sakhalkar 3-30, Arun Shetty 3-18) and 186 for 7 (Sandeep Signapurkar 33 n.o. Sayed Khalid 31 n.o.; Manish Sakhalkar 3-45) vs Union Bank 269 (Harish Shetty 68, Arun Shetty 84, Avadhoot Amonkar 3-31, Prashant Kakode 3-84, Nilesh Mulgaokar 3-24).
Group C: Reserve Bank 153 (Shanban Diwanji 79 n.o.; Kapil Dev Pandey 3-27) and 95 for 6 (S V Ghag 4-57) vs Indian Navy 247 (K D Pandey 63, Sanjeev Mehrotra 45, N K Gupta 32; Yeshwant Bhosle 3 for 78; Dilip Kalaynakar 4-75); BSES 178 (Prashant Keer 34, Vinaj Dandekar 32; Janak Mistry 6-73) and 184 for 8 (Vivek Patil 51, Jayendra Barde 49; Janak Mistry 3-42, D Singh 4-58) vs Varun Shipping 131 (Kishore Dakhshine 7-51).
Group D: Mumbai Port Trust 321 (A Rangnekar 84, A Mahadeshwar 35, S Manjrekar 73, A Correia 37; Ratan Sharma 5-114) vs Central Bank 294 for 8 (J Narse 82, A Ishwalkar 69, Arvind 31 n.o.; R Pandit 4-81); New India Assurance 278 (Sameer Samant 81, Vikas Joshi 71; Rajesh Raikar 48; Satyen Lande 5-81, Sunil Gudge 3-80) vs State Bank 170 (Sachin Dange 61, Kedar Hudlikar 7-52; Arvind Dhuri 3-68).

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