Pratik Jadhav's knock of 110 from 105 deliveries and right-arm medium pace bowler Nikhil Jadhav's haul of 3-9 enabled their schools Sau A K Joshi English Medium (Thane) and Parle Tilak Marathi respectively record comfortable victories in the first round of the boys under-16 Boost Cricket Cup tournament at the Cross Maidan yesterday.

Winning the toss, I E S Raja Shivaji Vidyamandir elected to bat and skipper Akshay Parab's unbeaten 53 (5x4s) and Yuvraj Shinde'su00a0 50 (7x4s) runs helped them reach 293 runs in 45 overs for the loss of four wickets.

Chasing a daunting target, Pratik Jadhav played anu00a0 excellent knock to help his team register a comfortable win.
Pratik got good support from teammates Nachiket Khatu and Gangadhar Suryavanshi, who scored unbeaten knocks of 79 and 40 respectively.

In an other match, Parle Tilak Marathi defeated Sir J J Boys (Fort) by 124 runs.

Brief Scores: Parle Tilak Marathi 164 all out in 42 overs (Ajinkya Panchal 39, Kalpesh Salvi 33, Abhijeet Agre 30; Nilesh Gupta 2-19, Daneesh Thakur 2-16) bt Sir J J Boys (Fort) 40 all out in 15.5 overs (Aishwarya Surve 3-18, Nikhil Jadhav 3-9).