Abbas Ali Rizvi, who scored three, opened the floodgates in the second half with a header, off Khalid Siddique's cross, that caught goalkeeper KR Ansari in no man's land.

Rizvi scored the second, fourth and seventh goals while Harish Sharma got the fifth and the sixth. Nitin Pradhan had opened the scoring with Naushad Moosa getting the third from a penalty.

But it was star striker Manjit Singh's enthusiasm that paved the way for MSP's rout. ``He wanted to play despite a pain in his left hamstring. I did not want him to go in but our position at half-time forced us to think otherwise. He vindicated our decision,'' said SS Hakim, the Mahindras coach.

Manjitprovided the third goal when right back Pravin Waingankar tripped him with the striker looking dangerous. Referee Walter Pereira awarded a penalty and Naushad Moosa converted it.

Mahindras began scrappily. There seemed to be no cohesion and the early thrusts came more by accident than design. Their first goal was due to soft defending. MSP's ploy of trying to trap the Mahindras strikers off-side came unstuck, giving Nitin Pradhan a clean run on the left to collect Khalid Siddique's pass and score it virtually unchallenged.

Rizvi scored a good goal to make it 4-0, shooting from outside the area after running about 10 yards, Harish Sharma got a header goal. Rizvi provided the pass for Harish's second and team's sixth before he himself rounded off the tally on the rebound, Satish Minz had hit the post from Aqueel Ansari's lobbed pass.

MSP had a few attacks in the first half but the forwards were unemployed in the second. Amidst all the battering that MSP received, it was the goalkeeper who must have comewith his confidence completely shaken. At least two headed goals -- the second and sixth -- should have been easy collections for Ansari.