MUMBAI, October 14: Test discard Narendra Hirwani produced a fine spell of leg-spin bowling to claim the opening day's honours of the A Division Times Shield Cricket Tournament.Hirwani returned impressive figures of 22-8-52-8 as Air-India skittled out Western Railway 139 at the MiG ground, Bandra here this afternoon.
The other Group B match between Sun-Grace Mafatlal and Central Railway at Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers (RCF) ground was abandoned.
Brief Scores
Group A Elf Lubricants 112 including 16 penalty runs (Ojas Mehta 24, Maroof Khan 19; Subroto Banerjee 3-20, Sandeep Dahad 3-27, Mayank Khandwala 4-23) vs Tatas 41-1.
Western Railway 139 (Shahbaz Khan 49, Nitin Surve 23, Raja Adatrao 32; Narendra Hirwani 8-52) vs Air-India.
Group B: Bharat Petroleum 98-4 (Sangram Sawant 31, Abhijit Kale 42, Vishal Mahadik 2-30) vs Indian Oil.
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