Mid­dle of the ta­ble teams IP­SL MX and Pow­er­gen locked horns in a Group B en­counter on Thurs­day, as ac­tion con­tin­ued in the Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices In­dus­tri­al Crick­et League.Bat­ting first, MX man­aged 59 runs from their ten overs with Rick Ram­nar­ine and A Singh stand­ing the an­chors for the in­ning. Ram­nar­ine came in at num­ber three af­ter open­ers Bar­ry Lalchan and R Ali went cheap­ly, scor­ing 5 and 7 re­spec­tive­ly. He bat­ted sen­si­bly for his in­ning high 18 runs, which in­clud­ed one four and one six, and was well sup­port­ed by Singh who scored 13 not out. N As­gar­ali was Pow­er­gen's best bowler on the day claim­ing three wick­ets for just three runs with his vi­cious left arm off break bowl­ing.

In their re­ply, Pow­er­gen fal­tered ear­ly and nev­er re­cov­ered as no bats­man was able to get in to dou­ble fig­ures. An­drew York came close scor­ing 9 runs, which al­so in­clud­ed the lone bound­ary of the in­nings, but MX's pre­ci­sion bowl­ing proved their un­do­ing. Naz Mo­hammed and Ram­nar­ine shared two wick­ets apiece as they bowled out Pow­er­gen for 40 runs claim­ing their sec­ond suc­ces­sive vic­to­ry.

Over at the IP­SL Ground, Nu Iron Un­lim­it­ed forged an im­pres­sive vic­to­ry over a strug­gling Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors team as they sought to move in to con­tention for a qual­i­fy­ing place in­to the quar­ter­fi­nals. Ak­il Mo­hammed steered the way with an im­pres­sive knock of 33 runs that in­clud­ed four bound­aries. Even though PPG­PL was able to get most of the oth­er bats­men out cheap­ly, Mo­hammed proved a thorn in their side and to­geth­er with Steve Sulie­man and Pe­ter Squires, they led the iron men to an im­pres­sive 92 in their al­lot­ted 10 overs.Philip Jor­dan was the on­ly bats­man to of­fer some mea­sure of re­sis­tance in PPG­PL's re­ply. His knock of 12 in­clud­ed two fours and was in­stru­men­tal in get­ting his team to 46 runs be­fore they were all bowled out, still 46 runs short of their tar­get. Nu Iron's vic­to­ry will see them move up to fourth place in Group A and will next play Arcelor Mit­tal on May 23.

Thurs­day's Re­sults

Plipde­co Ground

IP­SL MX 59/6 (R Ram­nar­ine 18, A Singh 13no, N As­gar­ali 3/3, S Beem 2/9)

vs Pow­er­gen 40 all out (9 overs) (A York 9, R Ram­nar­ine 2/7, N Mo­hammed 2/8)

Re­sult: IP­SL MX won by 19 runs

Man of the Match: Rick Ram­nar­ine

IP­SL Ground

Nu Iron 92 all out (A Mo­hammed 33, P Squires 19, N Ram­dass 3/13, Vish Ram­dass 3/17)

vs PPG­PL 46 all out (P Jor­dan 12, Kevin Mo­hammed 4/6, Kendell Mo­hammed 2/14)

Re­sult: Nu Iron won by 46 runs

Man of the Match: Ak­il Mo­hammed