Pawar's 5-38 saw the railwaymen fall short of Sun-Grace first score of 301 all out by 122 runs. Sujit Gadkari stood tall among the ruins with a well-compiled 50 runs.

Though Sun-Grace have made it to the last four, Central Railway too have a chance if the encounter peters to a draw on the third and final day tomorrow. Sun-Grace appear to be content with a draw rather pressing for a victory as they batted for 23 overs in the second essay to post 73 for no loss, which swelled the lead to 252.

Earlier, medium-pacer Santosh Saxena extended his superb showing in the tournament to end up with seven for 97. Sun-Grace, thus added only six runs to their overnight score of 295-8 before the innings terminated.

Brief Scores

Sun-Grace Mafatlal 301 (Nilesh Patwardhan 81, Amit Pagnis 61, Rohan Gavaskar 56, VinodKambli 39, Santosh Saxena 7-97, Manu Kumar 2-63) & 73-0 (Amit Pagnis batting 31, Shantanu Sugwekar batting 40) vs Central Railway 179 (Sujit Gadkari 50, Rajesh Pawar 5-38, Vijay Shrike 2-19, Mandar Sane 2-22)

Thrilling win for OLPS

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (OLPS), Chembur carved out a thrilling one-run victory over Saraswati Vidyalaya, Wadala today to enter the third round of the Harris Shield Cricket Tournament.

Chasing 104 runs for a win, Saraswati ended up agonisingly short by two runs that put them out of contention. Zameer Thakkar (4-32) and Amit Malhotra (4-12) did most of the damage for OLPS.

Nandu Mehul (CD Barfiwala) and Rakesh Kanojia (Marwari Vidyalaya) shared the individual honours with their fine all-round display to power their teams to victory respectively.

Mehul (3-23 & 23 not out) was intrumental in Barfiwala's eight-wicket win over Poorna Prajna while Kanojia (72 & 4-20) played the key role in his team's 80-run win over Swami Vivekanand.

Brief Scores

MarolEducation 60 (Ankit Chopra 4-18, Deomeet Thakkar 5-20) lost to St Mary's ISC 64-5 (Digesh Vanjara 3-22) by five wickets

Powai English 37 (Keith D'Souza 3-14, Rhichie Kharade 5-19) lost to St Anne's, Malad 38-1 lost by nine wickets

Poorna Prajna 101 (Nandu Mehul 3-23) lost to CD Barfiwala 102-2 (Bhushan Kalam 54, Nandu Mehul 24 n.o.) by eight wickets

OLPS, Chembur 103 (Ram Yadav 4-20, C Shivdasani 3-6) bt Saraswati Vidyalaya, Wadala 102 (Zameer Thakkar 4-32, Amit Malhotra 4-12) by one run

New Era 127 (Rachit Jogani 61, Gaurav Bhatt 3-23, Nirbhay Kothari 4-52, Abhijit Ranjan 3-22) lost to Rajhans Vidyalaya 130-4 by six wickets.

Matunga Premier 143-9 (Sanjay Yadav 36, Keith Rebello 3-13) bt Campions, Colaba 132 (Ruturaj Soman 64; Vaibhav Shah 3-55, Chirag Limbad 3-40) by 11 runs

Marwari Vidyalaya 218-9 (Rakesh Kanojia 72; Kunal Kale 3-70, P Kunal 4-65) bt Swami Vivekanand Vidyalaya 138 (Avesh Alam 3-30,Rakesh Kanojia 4-40) by 80 runs.