At close, Shardashram were 51 for three, recovering from 19-3. Their unbeaten batsmen Atish Golatkar and left-hander Dinar Gaokar did not look in too much of a bother. But by conceding the 95-run lead and loss of three early wickets, Shardashram have virtually lost the final.

IES's overnight pair of Kinjal Patel and Bravish Shetty raised exactly 100 for the opening wicket. The 12-year-old dimunitive Bravish was slightly faster in his scoring rate, striking 51 runs off 102 balls (103m, 8x4) before being bowled by medium-pacer Kunal Nar. Kinjal fell ten runs later making 42 (101b, 125m, 5x4).

Amladi and Gupte came together at the fall of Rohan Sadarjoshi at 117for three and knocked 175 runs off just 35.2 overs. They had just 13 hits to the fence between them and ran most of their runs.

Shardashram in the second innings lost three early wickets. But Golatkar has looked solid and keeping him company is Gaokar who has batted stylishly so far for his 16 runs.

Scoreboard

Shardashram Marathi (1st innings): 197

IES VN Sule Guruji (1st innings): Kinjal Patel c Mahesh Kurtadkar b Kamlesh Asawale 42, Bravish Shetty b Kunal Nar 51, Rohan Sadarjoshi lbw Dinar Goakar 7, Rohan Amladi 66 n.o., Shounak Gupte 103 n.o.Extras (5b, 5lb, 13w): 23. Total (for three wickets in 75 overs): 292

Fall of wickets: 1-100, 2-110, 3-117

Bowling: Atish Golatkar 7-0-28-0; Kamlesh Asawale 10-0-51-1; Kunal Nar 7-1-20-1; Sunny Dhamnaskar 14-4-43-0; Dinar Gaokar 21-5-74-1; Vikram Chichulkar 14-3-52-0; Swapnil Ambure 2-0-14-0.

Shardashram Marathi (2nd innings): Amay Kangane c Sadarjoshi b Navar 5, Swapnil Ambure c&b Agnipravo 0, Kamlesh Asawale c Joshi b Biswas Agnipravo 6, AtishGolatkar batting 13, Dinar Gaokar batting 16. Extras: (7w, 4nb): 11. Total (for three wickets in 23 overs): 51

Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-10, 3-19

Bowling: Rajapurva Navar 6-0-14-1; Biswas Agniprovo 7-1-17-2; Rohan Amladi 4-1-6-0; Rohan Sadarjoshi 1-0-3-0; Kinjal Patel 3-2-1-0; Shounak Gupte 1-0-8-0; Bravish Shetty 1-0-2-0.