PUNE: Pratik Bhosale and Mehul Rathod scored for their respective teams as Laxmi Road Katariya Royals and Timbers Strikers registered wins on the first day of the Federation Premier League 2019 Cricket tournament at the Katariya High School Ground.
In the first match, Laxmi Road Katariya Royals rode on the knocks from Pratik Bhosale (35 not out), Abhishek Parmar (29) and Gautam Sundarani (19 not out) to post 103 for 3 in the allotted 10 overs and then retricted Metal Challengers to 66 for 8 for 37-run win.
BRIEF SCORES:
Laxmi Road Katariya Royals 103 for 3 in 10 overs (Pratik Bhosale 35*, Abhishek Parmar 29, Gautam Sundarani 19*) beat Metal Challengers 66 for 8 in 10 overs (Aditya Porwal 21, Chintan Oswal 18, Abhishek Parmar 3-8).
Timber Strikers 126 for 4 in 10 overs (Mehul Rathod 59, Ankit Rathod 23, Faisal Shah 2-31) beat Non-Ferrous Eleven 67 for 8 in 10 overs (Prakash Oswal 16, Manish Parmar 14, Sitar Bhandari 2-16).