Kinjal Patel's heroics go in vain
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

MUMBAI, FEB 2: Kinjal Patel has every reason to be sore with his team-mates. The young lad's sterling all-round display at the Elf-Vengsarkar Academy, Oval Maidan did little to inspire defending champions IES VN Sule Guruji, who put up a meek batting exhibition on day two of the Giles Shield final.

Replying to IES New English's (Bandra) first innings score of 295, VN Sule Guruji squandered a 103-run start by losing eight wickets for the next 33 runs and were looking down the barrel when stumps were drawn on Wednesday.

Patel, was largely instrumental in restricting the Bandra boys' innings after they had resumed the day on 218-5. Bowling an impressive spell today (4.2-1-7-3), the leggie ended claiming six wickets for 107 runs.

Ameya Waingankar (50: 155b, 8x4) and Amit Sawant's (65: 90b, 9x4) 75-run association for the sixth wicket was the only batting highlight of the day for IES New English.

Openers Patel (57: 109b, 11x4) and the diminutive Bravish Shetty (31: 117b, 4x4) gave a fitting reply byraising a century stand. But once, Waingankar dismissed Patel, the floodgates opened. While Waingankar went to claim two more victims, leg-spinner Prasanna Sant, brought late into the attack, shared the spoils with figures of 3-23.

Scoreboard

IES New English (1st innings; overnight 218-5): Prasanna Sant c&b Patel 53, Vinit Bhosale b Tepan 0, Anup Revankar c Kalyankar b Mehta 22, Nishit Dhulap lbw b Patel 0, Ninad Borkar lbw b Patel 50, Ameya Waingankar lbw b 45, Amit Sawant c&b Sohoni 65, Neel Bangaonkar not out 14, Aniket Joshi c Gadkari b Patel 0, Surednra Pandey lbw b Patel 4, Nishant Patankar 0; Extras: (15b, 6lb, 16w) 37. Total (all out in 113 overs) 295
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-91, 3-91, 4-104, 5-178, 6-253, 7-283, 8-289, 9-295

Bowling: Pansare 11-2-37-0, Tepan 13-2-48-2, Patel 36.2-5-107-6, Mehta 28-13-43-1, Sohoni 21-8-31-1, Shetty 4-1-8-0

IES VN Sule Guruji (1st innings): Kinjal Patel c Sant b Waingankar 57, Bravish Shetty run out 31, Tejas Kalyankar cJoshi b Dhulap 3, Sarvesh Damale lbw Waingankar 6, Yash Agaskar c&b Sant 6, Sauresh Nalavade b Waingankar 0, Saurabh Gadkari b Sant 2, Sohel Pansare not out 2, Devendra Teran lbw Sant 4; Extras: (14b, 1lb, 10w) 25. Total: (for eight wickets in 55 overs) 136
Fall of wickets: 1-103, 2-106, 3-106, 4-123, 5-123, 6-125, 7-125, 8-136

Bowling: Sawant 9-1-34-0, Bhosale 3-0-11-0, Waingankar 17-7-26-3, Patankar 1-0-11-0, Dhulap 13-8-10-1, Sant 9-2-23-3, Revandkar 3-1-7-0

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