Varun, afer electing to bat, ran into trouble. They lost both their openers before reaching twenties. Vincent Albuquerque (0) was the first to go, caught behind of medium-pacer Vivek Narvane, while Rohit Naidu (11) became the first victim of Sameer Inamdar.

One-drop Ajay Joshi and captain Anand Tiwari then carried the total to 40, before Joshi was claimed by left-arm spinner Rajesh Prabhudesai. He made 12 off 25 balls.

Tiwari then added 35 runs for the fourth wicket with Rohit Rane before he became the first scalp of Khanolkar. Tiwari's steady knock of 25 was studded with four hits to the ropes in 57 balls. Khanolkar then took two quickwickets to reduce the holders from 75-4 to 89-6.

Khanolkar finished with remarkable figures of 21-3-53-5, while seamer Inamdar and left-arm Prabhudesai took two wickets each. RCF began on a steady note with their openers Sachin Kakdekar and Yogesh Patil putting on 35 runs in 7.1 overs before Patil was run-out for 25 with four hits to the boundary. In the 17th over left-arm spinner Digvijay Singh bowled Kakdekar for 20.

Brief scores: Varun Shipping 160 (Rohit Rane 54, Janak Mistry 34 n.o.; Shreyas Khanolkar 5-53) vs RCF 92-2.Rizvi in commandRizvi Springfield grabbed a wicket in the last five overs to deny Shardashram, Marathi a good start in the postponed quarter-final match of the Harris Shield Inter-School Cricket tournament at Shivaji Park today.

Facing Rizvi Springfield's daunting 332 in 75 overs, Shardashram were 14 for the loss of their opener C Sushant who was gobbled by wicket-keeper off Amit Yadav, edging a rising delivery in the fifth over.

Brief scores

Rizvi Springfield 332-9 in 75overs (Deepak Jaiswal 31, Pankaj Ojha 37, Apurva Srivastava 86, Amarnath Rai 69, Amit Yadav 24 n.o., Santosh Agarhari 27 n.o.; Saurabh Ambatkar 5-94) vs Shardashram, Marathi 14-1.