Chandrakant Pandit (64: 29b, 6x4, 4x6) led the batting honours as MiG declared at 181 for 7. In reply, CCI could muster only 131-5. Sportsmen, Kalyan came close to upstaging Parsee Gymkhana's score of 162-1 declared in Division III encounter. Sportsmen went close scoring 158-9.

Brief Scores: Division I: National 127-8 decl (Rajesh Sutar 39; Janak Mistry 6-42) drew with New Hind 51-5 (Manish Patel 3-23). Victory 100-8 decl (Mahendra Ingle 39; Aslam Sheikh 4-27) drew with Young Friends 16-5 (Vinod Kini 4-7). MB Union 111-4 decl (Praful Dhule 31, Tushar Shringare 33) drew with Khar Gymkhana 17-0. MiG 181-7 decl (Manish Bangera 31, Satish Samant 32, Chandrakant Pandit 64 n.o.; Iqbal Thakur 3-32) drew with CCI 131-5 (Sameer Dighe 42, Sachin Sawant 37 n.o). Dadar Union 102-7 decl (Ashish Parulekar 53 n.o; Saby D'Souza 3-36) drew with Shivaji ParkYoungsters 21-3). Division III: Fort Vijay 108-8 decl (Santosh Shinde 3-32, A Khanolkar 4-29) drew with Worli 73-6 (Surendra Yadav 3-28). Sunder 155-8 decl (Yogesh Patil 34, Arun Balakrishnan 50 n.o; Arvind Dhuri 4-55, Rohan Hirlekar 3-29) drew with Kandivili 85-5 (Rohan Hirlekar 30 n.o; Yogesh Patil 4-23). Shantibai Memorial 97 (K Malvankar 30, Praful Mahajan 30 n.o; Gaurishankar 3-36, Jagdish Narvekar 5-23) drew with Khandala 57-6 (J Gavare 3-7). Gamdevi 160 (Vinay Sopte 61; Pradeep Sundaram 4-74, Rohit Rudra 3-26) drew with Rajasthan 50-4. Division II: Parsee Gymkhana 162-1 decl (Ajay Kadam 73 n.o., Pravin Tambe 51 n.o., Rashid Dotiwala 36) drew with Sportsmen, Kalyan 158-9 (Rahul Singh 54, Sanjay Hadpi 6-70, A Shah 3-9)Abid 'tricks: A hat-trick by Abdul Abid was the highlight of Maharashtra State Police's 3-1 victory over Colaba Young Star in the Gulf Oil WIFA Senior Division League at the Cooperage ground, today.

Other results: Senior Division:Western Rly 2 (Kaushik Pal, Sunil Misra) btDadar XI B 0; Gulf Oil SC 2 (J Fernandes, Denis Raja Manikham) bt Young Boys 0; Division II: Holy Cross 2 (Elias D'Souza, Kenneth Lobo) bt Central Excise 1 (Girish K); Rabbani 2 (Naveed Ansari, Aneef Ansari) bt Jet Air 1 (Nilesh Chauhan). Division III: Navram FC 0 drew with Tonkin Lab 0; Oberoi Towers 2 (Julius Joseph, Sydney Mascarenhas) bt Allies 0; Sanath FC 1 (Bhagwan Padhi) drew with Alltaf FC 1 (Chagan Chauhan).

Mehta sole leader: Kishore Mehta, A 56-year-old employee of Bank of India, was the sole leader with five points in the field of 154 players at the end of the fifth round of the Senior Division Chess tournament, organised by the Bombay Chess Association, at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen, Sayani Road.