Team Herald
PANJIM: LPK11 scored a thrilling 3-wicket victory over Baale Tigers in the evening while Dempo Challengers had registered a winning start to their campaign with 32-run win against Prescon Panthers in the ongoing Panjim Gymkhana Members League (PGML) at PG ground, Campal, here on Sunday..
Electing to bat on winning toss, Baale Tigers put up the highest total of the PGML so far at 160/7. Shushrut Nasnodkar (32), Sairaj Dhond (32), Govind Gawas (16) were the key run-getters for Baale Tigers.
LPK 11 chased down a challenging target of 161 , with crucial knocks played by Siddharth Ghanekar (37), Manish Kakode (35), Vinay Palekar (18), Sanjay Netravalkar (14) and man of the match Anish Kakode (13 not out).
Anish, who had earlier picked three wickets giving away 18 runs in his three overs, had the task of finishing the match after set-batsman Siddharth had to go back to the dressing room on reaching 35 adhering to the tournament rules.
Earlier, Kiran Shirwaikar's man-of-the match display, powered Dempo Challengers to a 32-run victory over Prescon Panthers in the first match of the day.
Shirwaikar came up with an important late-order inning of 14-ball 25 that took Dempo beyond the 150-mark.
Prescon were all out in the 19th over for 123 runs.
Among the wickets for Dempo, were Pranav Dhuri (2/13); Mukhtar Kadri, Ajay Pednekar and Nakul Mhamal (one wicket each).
In the second match, Dempo Challengers elected to bat on winning the toss.
Geet Sail was the top scorer with 36 runs off 48 balls. He struck three boundaries in his patient knock. Captain Mukhtar Kadri provided the much needed aggression to the inning with a 23-ball 35, which included three boundaries and two sixers. All-rounder Mehank Dharwadkar contributed 20 runs with 2 boundaries in his 14-ball stay at the crease.
Dempo batters were slow to get into the groove and the two major partnerships of their innings were 37 for the fourth wicket between Geet and Mukhtar; 29 for the 5th wicket between Mukhtar and Kiran as Dempo reached a decent total of 155/5.