Despite P Kokane's all-out effort, scoring 75 runs, to save NCL from the face of defeat, the NCL men could not carry through the pace set by Kokane.

Brief Scores
Azad Cricket Club: 260 for 7; 45 overs (Atul Sanmmul 102, Vishwash Nimhan 46, Ashok Ranwade 32, Sanjay Patil 3/57) bt National Chemical Laboratory: 223 (P Kokane 75, M Wadnete 44, P Kulkarni 30, Sashi Nimhan 3/52).

Sunday Sports Club: 190 (Sunil Kamble 55, Nirmal Harsh 39, Pradip Joshi 30) lost to Melborne Cricket Club: 191 for 8 (Milind Yadav 51, Ashok Rege 36, Nitin Samal 33, Ramesh Tikone 39).

PCMC: 185 for 9 (Raju Kotwal 89, Anand Lode 32) lost to Dilip `A': 189 for 6 (Bhushan Deshpande 42, Subodh Nagarkar 36, Pravin Chichoriya 45, Anand Naydu 3/33).

Vijay Cricket Club: 172 (Sadanand Wazalkar 34, Bipin Kulkarni 30, Uday Bal 3/20) lost to Gymkhanba Starts: 175 for 3 (Ajut Phatak 50, Rahul Abhyankar 30, Guruprasad Kapale 33 n.o).

MSEB: 132 (Pradeep Majumdar 36 n.o., Milind Parchure 3/27) lost to Shree Cricket Club: 133 for 9 (Sachin Kapade 41, Yogesh Chitare 3/27, Anit Prabhune 3/24).

Inter-Office:
NCL: 213 (Ravi Mandekar 45, Sanjay Jadhav 33, Sandeep Bodhade 32/3, Navin Kumar 35/3) bt ARAI: 136 (Sandeep Bodhade 29, Ganesh Khatankar 26/3).

Praj Industries: 193 (Umesh Deshmukh 57, Gopal Ganesh 29, Mohan Kelkar 18/5) lost to Sharadha Bank: 198/2 (Mohan Kelkar 83, Hemant Joshi 64).

Rajshree Shahu Sahakari Bank: 157 (Prashant Supekar 33, Ananth Kawankar 31, Sandeep Kulkarni 20/5) lost to Thermax `B': 159/4 (Riyaz Khan 51, Milind Sawant 51 n.o).