Motiram, Ulla and Kanji Cup Inter-Club Badminton: Strong Start By MIG, CCI A In Motiram Cup

MIG Cricket Club and CCI A made a strong start by winning two matches each in the Motiram, Ulla and Kanji Cup Inter-Club Badminton Championships, organised by GMBA, and hosted by Willingdon Sports Club on Thursday.

MIG players Mangrish Palekar and Ruturaj Rathod, blanked NSCI B 3-0 and then went on to outplay Thakur Sports Club by a similar scoreline.

CCI A, with fancied names like Nigel D'Sa and Siddhesh Aroskar in their ranks, beat NSCI A 3-0, before taking the court again to get the better of P M Hindu Bath 2-1 in the round robin action.

Brief Score

Chembur Gymkhana beat CCI C 3-0

Parthive Nair/Amey Joshi bt Ketan Patel/Nihal Peerbhoy 15-3, 15-3; Siddharth Gupta (C) bt Rustom Warden 15-10, 15-6; Aman Farogh Sanjay/Suyog Lokhande bt Rishi Agarwal/Ritish Desai 15-9,15-4

MIG Cricket Club beat NSCI B 3-0

Arun Suresh/Siddhesh Raut bt Shreyansh Giya/Amay Vrudhman 15-5, 15-12; Ruturaj Rathod bt Gurpreet Singh 15-5, 15-7; Mangirish Palekar/ Ruturaj Rathod bt Mehull Agarwal/Ravi Kant Mall 15-4,15-7

Brihanmumbai Kreeda Ani Lalit Kala Pratishthan beat Bombay Gymkhana 3-0

Sushrut Karmakar/Anmoal Behrani bt Aditya Khansaheb/Jehan Daboo – 15-7, 15-11; Soham Phatak bt Viraj Kuvale 9Bombay Gym) – 10-15, 15-9, 15-9; Harshal Soni/Soham Phatak was granted a walkover win against Ayaz Bilawala/Jatin Aggarwal

CCI A beat NSCI A 3-0

Siddhesh Aroskar/Nigel D’Sa bt Siddharth Naudal/Sunnet Kabra 15-13, 15-11; Jawaduddhin Shaikh bt Siddharth Naudal 15-12, 7-15, 15-10; Harsh Jhaveri/Zarir Warden bt Jai Sonthalia/Yameer Sanghavi 15-12, 15-11

GCH beat NSCI C 3-0

Ishan Thaker/Dhruv Jhaveri bt Aditya Somani/Harsh Shah 15-9, 15-14, 11-15; Parthh Chandak bt Tejas Pikale 8-15, 15-10, 15-13; Atik Shah/Parthh Chandak bt Aryan Ahuja/Tejas Shah 15-7,11-15,15-9

MIG Cricket Club beat Thakur Sports Club 3-0

Arun Suresh/Siddhesh Raut bt Chandan Kashyap/Karthik Laxman 15-5,15-2; Ruturaj Rathod bt Shivaan Mishra 15-4, 9-15, 15-8; Mangirish Palekar/Ruturaj Rathod bt Amit Gupta/Shivaan Mishra 15-10,15-13