PUNE: Kunal Agarwal smashed 17-ball 30 with three hits to the boundary as Sailors registered their fifth straight win and topped the Group A table with 10 points and qualified for the semifinals of the Poona Club Premier League Cricket tournament at the Poona Club cricket ground here.
Also making it to the semifinals were Group B toppers Lions, All Stars and Jets as the league matches concluded.
In Group B action, Jets won by 7 wickets in a low-scoring encounter against Typhoons.
Atharva Bandal’s two-wicket haul helped Jets restrict Typhoons to 44 for 6 and then they wrapped up the required runs in 4.3 overs losing just one wicket.
In the other consequential match, Lions rode on the knocks of Shivam Jha (33) and Kiran Deshmukh (24) to post 76 for 4 in their allotted 6 overs against Destroyers, who then managed mere 40 for 5 when Aniruddha Sanap struck two crucial blows.
BRIEF SCORES:
Sailors 73 for 5 in 6 overs (Kunal Agarwal 30, Sameer Dhage 16) beat Jaguars 45 for 5 in 6 overs.
Warriors 64 for 4 in 6 overs (Jaideep Patwardhan 31, Kapil Punjabi 18, Atharva Bet 2-9) lost to DPES 68 for 1 in 5.1 overs (Rounak Dhole-Patil 52*).
Waves 66 for 4 in 6 overs (M Adil Khan 23, Nihal Hemdev 17, Amit Kamble 15, Rohit Acharya 2-1) lost to All Stars 68 for 2 in 5.4 overs (Rohit Acharya 39*).
Lions 76 for 4 in 6 overs (Shivam Jha 33, Kiran Deshmukh 24) beat Destroyers 40 for 5 in 6 overs (Aniruddha Sanap 2-4).
Eagles 67 for 2 in 6 overs (Vinit Parmar 41) beat Tigers 40 for 4 in 6 overs (Aryaman Pillay 2-5).
Typhoons 44 for 6 in 6 overs (Rajit Pardeshi 14, Atharva Bandal 2-7) lost to Jets 48 for 1 in 4.3 overs (Rohit Jadhav 16*, Sharan Singh 18*).
