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Batting first, lusty hitting by J Arunkumar (57), Deepak Joon (47) and R R Parida (45) helped Air India amass 195 for 3 in their 20 overs. In reply, opening bat Parag Madkaikar scored 66 and had two fruitful partnerships of 54 and 45 with Ahad Malik (34) and Mukesh Singh (9) respectively to bring Western Railway close to the target. The ninth wicket pair of Nehal Rawal and Akshay Gizap then brought Western closer still and they needed 10 runs to win in the final over from right arm medium pacer Vinit Jain. Rawal and Gizap managed to score seven before Gizap perished on the second last ball, their partnership yielding 22 runs, and the last wicket fell on the last ball to give Air India a three-run win.
In another close encounter, BPCL got past Reliance Industries by three runs.
Brief Scores
State Bank of Travancore 121 for 9 (Rakesh K J 39; Pushkaraj Chavan 4-23, Ankeet Chavan 2-16) lost to Air India (Mumbai) 123 for 8 in 18.1 overs (Sushant Marathe 47 (48b, 4x4); V A Jagdeesh 4-23, K Anilkumar 2-31) BPCL 121 for 6 (Uday Kaul 25 n.o, Kiran Adhav 24 n.o, Onkar Khanvilkar 24; Sunit Singh 2-25) bt Reliance Industries 118 all out in 19.2 overs (Swapnil Singh 50 (28b, 3x4, 2x6); Swapnil Hazare 4-23, Avishkar Salvi 2-9) by 3 runs. D Y Patil 196 for 5 (Saurabh Tiwari 63 n.o (33b, 6x4, 3x6), Farman Ahmed 56 (42b, 6x4), Abhishek Raut 37 (21b, 6x4, 1x6); Amit Bhandari 2-28) bt ONGC, Delhi 152 for 9 (Tanmay Srivastav 27, Radheysham Gupta 23; Shoaib Sheikh 2-7). Air India (Delhi) 195 for 3 (J Arunkumar 57 (37b, 7x4, 3x6), Deepak Joon 47 (34b, 4x4, 1x6), R R Parida 45 (24b, 5x4, 1x6) bt Western Railway 193 all out (Parag Madkaikar 66 (38b, 11x4), Ahad Mallik 34 (14b, 6x4, 1x6); Sonu Sharma 2-25, Ajit Chandela 2-32, Vinit Jain 2-40).
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