Defending champions and hosts D Y Patil 'A' played listless cricket and slumped to a four-wicket defeat against qualifiers Jain Irrigation in a Group A league match of the Rs 12 lakh T20 tournament being held at their stadium in Navi Mumbai today.
The home side, boasting of a batting line-up that included some IPL players, failed miserably as they could muster a modest 121 all out, which was overhauled by their rivals.
In Group C, Air India scored their first win by defeating State Bank of Hyderabad by 18 runs. Air India had lost to BPCL by seven wickets yesterday.
In Group B, Western Railway suffered their second straight loss, going down by eight wickets to CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General).
Scores:
D Y Patil 'A' 121 for 7 (Siddhart Chitnis 32) lost to Jain Irrigation 122 for 6 in 19.3 overs (Krunal Nar 39; Praveen Tambe 3 for 22, Udit Patel 2 for 13) by 4 wickets.
Western Railway 109 for 4 (Dhiren Salvi 57; Peeturaj Singh 2 for 19) lost to CAG 110 for 2 in 16 overs (Biplap Samantray 57, Ankur Julka 32; Narendra Diwane 2 for 27) by 8 wickets.
Air India 193 for 6 (Sushant Marathe 78, Prashant Naik 44, Paul Valthaty 38; Alfred Absolem 2 for 35) beat State Bank of Hyderabad 175 for 8 (T Suman 81, B Sumanth 54; Pankaj Singh 2 for 23, Kamran Khan 2 for 28, Bradley Alam 2 for 33) by 18 runs.
