MUMBAI, November 18: A fine all-round performance by Ram Kewal Ramani (108 and three for 18) and a half century by Suratna Das helped St. Mary's ISC beat Purna Prajna by a huge margin of 184 runs to enter the fourth round of the Harris Shield Inter-Schools Cricket Tournament at Shivaji Park on Tuesday.

Ramani's unbeaten century (108) contained 13 hits to the fence, while Das struck five boundaries in his 82 and helped their side to score 258 for five. In reply, Purna Prajna were bowled out for 74. Ramani took three wickets for 18 runs, and was well supported by Aniket Chopra (3-20) and Aditya Pusalkar (4-10).

An unbeaten half century by Sangram Bagul (72) and an all-round display by Rohan Nadkarni (50 & 3-57) enabled Shri Ma Bal Niketan Thane beat IES English, Bandra, by seven wickets.

BRIEF SCORES

St. Mary's (ISC) 258-5 (Suratna Das 82, Ram Kewal Ramani 108 no) bt Purna Prajna 74 (A Chopra 3-20, Ram Kewal Ramaji 3-18, A Pusasalkar 4-10)Swami Vivekanand (Borivali) 185-6 (S Telang 30, S Wagh 44) bt CD Barfiwala 109 (N Mehul 38; Y Kandalkar 4-39; B Wagle 4-30)

Swami Vivekanand (Chembur) 132 (M Bhat 38; P Wadekar 5-27) lost to St. Sebastian (Dabul) 134-3 (P. Wadekar 68 no, M Bhatt 3-22)

Bombay Scotish 190 (V Chandran 86, R Bombaywala 5-56, H Dax 3-74) bt St. Peter's (Mazgaon) 70 (L Joseph 4-23, V Chandran 3-21)

St. Joseph (Vikhroli) 174-7 (M Pancundekar 43, S Shetty 55) bt Bharda 101 (J Patney 42, M Pancundekar 5-20)

Cowasji Jehangir 129 (S Rumde 44, C Thakkar 3-39, H Mistry 3-16) lost to St. Joseph (Malad) 132-2 (B Saboo 30, N Gandhi 57 no).

St. Aloysius 148 (A Rathod 61, J Rawal 3-28, S Muzumdar 4-25) bt SVP 130 (Omprakash Jaiswal 6-43)

Jasudben 143 (N Pandya 31, H Ajmera 31 no; Amit Suryavanshi 7-45) bt Saraswati Vidyalaya 95 (Abhishek 30; M Dholakia 3-15, S Shaikh 5-12)Rizvi-Springfield 212-9 (S Shaikh 72, A Jain 60, P Patel 3-40) bt Gyan Kendra (Varsova) 94 (S Shaikh 3-15)

IES New English (Bandra) 164 (Y Vaidya 39, C Mahapurkar 30; Nadkarni 3-57) lost to Shri Ma Bal Niketan 167-3 (Rohan Nadkarni 50, Sangram Bagul 72 no)Cumballa Hills 186 (H Chokshi 49; M Dalal 4-35, K Darndarkar 3-25) bt GD Somani 170 (K Purohit 51, P Vashani 44; K Dharia 4-33, M Joshi 5-47)

St. Xavier's (Nerul) 204-8 (S Thorat 76, N Jadhav 3-41) bt Tiker Bell 72 (D Sanjay 39, R Goel 6-17, P Bhurli 3-1)

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