MCA Colts, chasing a total of 278 for a win, were 273 for five at the beginning of the last over of the day and needed six runs off it. Venkat Mudaliar, a medium pacer who bowled the last over, gave only three runs to the sixth wicket pair of Mandar Phadke and Amit Pagnis.

A Century by Wasim jaffer (111: 1x6, 8x4) and his 161 runs partnership for the third wicket with Rajesh Sutar (91: 2x6, 8x4) enabled National hit up 303 for seven in the allotted 70 overs. In reply, Cricket Club of India were shot out for 121 with Himanshu waingankar contributing 42. Medium pacer Atul Ranade and left-arm spinner Nilesh Kulkarni took three wickets each.

Brief Scores

Group A: Mumbai City Police 278 (Mayur Kadrekar 44,Sushant Manjrekar 66, Sulakshan Kulkarni 64, Ramesh Pawar 47 n.o.; Manoj Joglekar 4-38) bt MCA Colts 276-5 (Manoj Joglekar 36, Ojaz Mehta 78, Kiran Powar 47, Mandar Phadke 53 n.o., Shreyas Khanolkar 3-44).

Parsee Gymkhana 147 (Piyush Soneji 34, Arun Shetty 31; Sairaj Bahutule 5-28) lost to PJ Hindu Gymkhana 149-3 (Nitin Surve 55, Sairaj Bahutule 46 n.o.).Group B: National 303-7 (Wasim Jaffer 111, Rajesh Sutar 91, Amit Dani 47 n.o.; Mayank Khandwala 4-71) bt CCI 121 (Himanshu Waigankar 42; Atul Ranade 3-28, Nilesh Kulkarni 3-26).

Bombay Gymkhana 134 (M Bhamne 34, Sanjay Jaywant 59; Rajesh Sawant 4-25, Anthony Dias 3-38, Prashant Sawant 3-25) lost to Catholic Gymkhana 135.Gaikwad shines

Sandeep Gaikwad scored 30 runs and took four wickets to help Shambhaji Nagar to defeat Kokan by 140 runs in the last league match of the Samna Trophy Cricket Tournament at the MIG ground, Bandra here today.

Brief scores

Group A: Shambaji Nagar 179 in 37.4 overs (Shreyas Sukalikar 45, Sandeep Gaikwad 30;Pravin Mankar 4-28) bt Kokan 40 in 21.5 overs (Irfan Shaikh 4-5, Sandeep Gaikwad 4-6). Pune 162-8 in 40 overs (Aditya Sharma 51, Amit Medankar 31; S Gupta 3-35, Tanmay Joshi 2-40) lost to Mumbai A 163-7 in 38.1 overs (Hiken Shah 49, Bravesh Shetty 26).

Group B: Nasik 129 in 37.1 overs (Abhijit Gujral 41; Azhar Shaikh 3-31, Avinash Wad 2-9) bt Vidarbha 119 in 31.2 overs (Gaurav Tikkas 47, Abhishek Ghule 3-25, Sachin Dhurmale 4-25). Mumbai B 216 in 40 overs (Girish Vaswani 47, Sudhanshu Mishra 41, Devendra Pawar 3-36, Rohit Tayade 2-26, Viraj Chavan 2-50) bt Thane 156-8 in 40 overs (Anuj Bhadsale 36, Devendra Pawar 24, Viraj Chavan 26).