Date-stamped : 28 Dec93 - 18:28 IND RANJI 1993/94 : West Zone One-day SAIL Trophy Bombay v Maharashtra, Dadoji Konddev Stadium Thane, 12 Dec 93 (From Times of India, 13 Dec 93 - by Ramdas Rao) BOMBAY, December 12. Sanjay Manjrekar helped himself to a delightful century while mediumpacer Paras Mhambrey continued to torment Maharashtra as Bombay gained an emphatic 22-run victory over Maharashtra in the one-day limited overs (50 overs) West Zone league at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium, Thane, today. The four points which Bombay gained keep them in the running for the SAIL trophy. The hosts had lost their opening match to Baroda 'while Maharashtra had beaten Gujarat in their opening encounter. Bombay, who were put in, scored 239 for six in 50 overs thanks to Manjrekar's solid, unbeaten 139 (157 balls, 13 fours). The asking rate of 4.8 proved too much for Maharashtra, who ended thc day at 207 for nine, despite brave efforts by opener Hemant Kinikar (62, 85 balls, four fours) and skipper Surendra Bhave (71, 119 balls, two fours). The two put on 110 runs for the third wicket in 171 balls and as long as these two were at the crease, Maharashtra were in with a chance. In fact, after 31 overs, at 118 for two, Maharashtra were ahead of Bombay on run rate as Bombay had scored just 104 for two in the same number of overs. A fine piece of fielding by Sairaj Bahutule, however, beat Kini- kar to the non-striker's end, as Bhave went for the second run. Maharashtra never recovered from this blow. Though Bhave, who was 48 then, stayed for nine more overs, wickets kept falling. Ten- dulkar trapped Manohar with his deceptive use of the seam while legspinner Bahutule, who came back for his second spell, lured newcomer Mangesh Vaidya and Srikant Jadhav out of the crease. When Tendulkar snapped up Bhave as the Maharashtra skipper tried to swing medium-pacer Mahadik, it was all over bar the shouting. Bombay's innate professionalism came through when an alert Dighe stumped Prasad Kanade off the penultimate ball of the match giv- ing Mhambrey his fourth wicket. In the end, the 39 runs which Bombay took off inexperienced lef- tarm spinner Parag Chitale, his last three overs, proved de- cisive. Surprisingly Chitale was asked to bowl the slog overs including the last when medium pacer Iqbal Siddiqui, who had nicked the edge of opener Ravi Shastri in a fine opening spell of six overs was not called upon to bowl again. Contributed by Cric8wala (sidiyus@*105.112.45)