Harmalkar led the run charge for Worli with an unbeaten 39 in the team's total of 175. He then returned to torment the opposition by claiming a superb hat-trick with his medium-pace. He claimed 5-18 as DPZ were shot out for a paltry 43. Harmalkar's partner at the other end, medium-pacer Vishal Mahadik too bowled well while claiming a seven wicket haul in the match.Worli are thus leading the B Division standings having garnered 23 points. Following the leaders are Khandala with 20 points.

Amit Pagnis and Sanjay Bangar played lead roles in Shivaji Park Gymkhana's two-wicket win over MB Union in their A Division match at Cross Maidan.

Bangar's medium-pace which fetched him four wickets limited MB Union to 127 with Naresh Shanbag (22) enmerging the topscorer.

Left-handed opener Amit Pagnis put SPG on course with a fine 56. However, SPG lost way after his dismissal and were struggling at 112 for eight at one stage. However the ninth wicket pair of Sandesh Kawle (10) and Kalpesh Patil (10) added invaluable 17 runs to see the side through.

Other teams to surge ahead on the basis of first innings win were Dadar Union and Young Friends who defeated Khar Gymkhana and Young Maharashtra respectively.

Dadar Union, Cricket Club of India and National CC are locked in a three-way tussle for the top slot in the standings having logged 19 points each.

Brief Scores

A Division: Shivaji Park Youngsters 214-8 decl (Abhijit Patil 46, Mandar Phadke 40; Amit Aroskar 41, Vinod Kini 4-61) drew with Victory 174-6 (Mobin Shaikh 55, Ramesh Pawar 30; Jay Dhuri 3-31).

PJ Hindu Gymkhana 208-5 decl (Nitin Surve 65, Saket Adhikari 41, Jayprakash Jadhav 31) drew with Karnatak 176-9 (Robin Morris 46, Rohit Rane 32; Tushar Zaveri3-20).

MB Union 127-9 decl (Sanjay Bangar 4-37) lost to Shivaji ParkGymkhana 129-8 (Amit Pagnis 56; Chatak Vakharia 4-37).

CCI 116 (Rajesh Sanghi 36; Satish Samant 4-33, Jagdish Shetty 3-20) drew with MIG 41-0.

Khar Gymkhana 87 (Ashutosh Dubey 6-28, Salil Shah 3-20) lost Dadar Union 89-4 (Abhishek Jaywant 38 n.o.)

Young Maharashtra 84 (H Siddique 4-27) & 49-8 (Aslam Sarguru 6-15) lost to Young Friends 139-4 decl (Aslam Shaikh 85 n.o.)

National 150-4 decl (Pushkaraj Jadhav 54 n.o., Rajesh More 34 n.o.) drew with New Hind 63-9 (Nilesh Kulkarni 5-15, Rajesh Pawar 3-17).

B Division: Islam Gymkhana 162 (Zahid Shaikh 39; Anirudha Dichvalkar 5-62) & 41-2 bt Fort Vijay 150 (Amit Mungekar 56 n.o; Tabrej Kadri 3-11) on the first innings.

Sunder 111 (Premjit Tawde 35; Sanjiv Srivastava 3-36, Ajit Rodriques 3-17, Pravin Tambe 4-19) lost to Parsee Gymkhana 112-5 (Pravin Tambe 40 n.o.).

United Cricketers149 (Mayur Ankolekar 36, R Singh 31; Pradeep Sundaram 3-26, Rohit Rudra 3-38) drew with Rajasthan 59-3.

Shantibhai Sheth Memorials 119 (Amit Tiwari 39, Praful Mahajan 32; Chandu Bhatkar 4-28, Uday Ujale 4-27) lost to Jolly Cricketers 120-3 (Dilip Agarwal 38 n.o.).

Young Comrade 173-7 decl (Sudhir Sawant 51, Santosh Jadhav 33) drew with Dahisar 59-3.

Gamdevi 137 lost to Khandala 139-8.

Worli 175 (Sudhakar Harmalkar 39 n.o.) bt Dadar Parsee Zorastrian 43 (Vishal Mahadik 4-13, Sudhakar Harmalkar 5-18) & 54-4 (Amit Tanawade 30; Vishal Mahadik 3-24) on the first innings.