MUMBAI, June 1: Valky D'Silva's equaliser, just after his team Central Bank of India (CBI) conceded a goal in the 35th minute, enabled CBI draw their match against Bank of India (BoI) in a Gulf Lubricants WIFA Super Division League at the Cooperage today.D'Silva lobbed the ball over BoI's goalkeeper Sanjiv Verma who had advanced. A long shot was taken by medio Stephen Dias. BoI deep defender Evaristo Cardozo mistimed his shot and it found D'Silva, who without wasting time, lobbed the ball in the empty net.
Chandrakant Poojary put BoI ahead in the 35th minute with a neat finish off MK Karmughilan's cross from the right flank. After receiving a long pass from Cardozo, Karmughilan stretched the left defender to make place for his cross into the goalmouth. Onrushing Poojary flicked the ball over the head of advancing CBI custodian Jerome Ghanekar.
BoI could have won the match had reliable defender Cardozo placed his shot in the framework, off a low cross from Karmughilan in the 58th minute.
In the 39thminute, Karmughilan's header off a cross from Poojary saw CBI custodian Ghanekar bring off the best save of the day. He was airborne when punching out BoI new recruit's header.
BoI coach Devdas came out with three substitutions -- Navin Kotian, Ramesh Poojary and Nasir Hussain -- in the second-half to put pressure on the opponents. But it did not make any difference for the CBI defence as defenders Prem Malhotra, Mario Caldeira, Nassir Hussein and Jamil Ansari stood like a rock and did not permit any of the moves from BoI to enter the box area.
Doriaswamy excels
Pramod Shetty helped his team Pramod XI with a beautiful 78 to set a target of 257 for Tufel XI.
Shetty was well assisted by Deepak Dorasiswamy who contributed a well made 70 and was adjudged the best batsamn in the under-16 category of the J Bhatia Memorial Cup at the Indian Airlines ground.
Royal CC win
Sameer Surve's five for 23 could not help his side Surve Sports as they lost to Royal Cricket Club by two wickets in thefinal of 13th Dr Shridhar Deshpande Memeorial Summer Club's Committee at Cross Maidan, Thane. Surve was adjudged Man-of-the-Match.
Brief Scores
Surve Sports 123 in 31 overs (Naresh Waghmare 28, Kiran Salgaokar 3-23, Sushil Mhapuskar 3-22) lost to Royal Cricket Club 125-8 (Santosh Khanolkar 30, Nitin Palande 30, Sameer Surve 5-23).
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