mumbai he arrived with a bang taking five for 68 for mumbai against punjab two seasons ago at the wankhede emulating his namesake balwinder singh sandhu sr who too had scalped five wickets on his firstclass debut unfortunately tragedy struck the young seamers career just as it was about to take off after that perfect launch pad the following season sandhu jr was picked for the mumbai invitational xi that was to play the visiting englishmen at the dy patil stadium just a few days before that game he discovered that he was afflicted by dengue by the time sandhu was cured he had missed a major part of the season and could only play in the game against bengal but was soon dumped on wednesday sandhu served a telling reminder to the mumbai selectors that he is very much around bowling for indian oil the swing bowler scalped six for 27 to shoot out central railway sports association for 147 on day two of their times cricket shield division a encounter at the mig club his performance helped indian oil who made 307 after resuming at 229 for four gain a handsome 160run lead which saw them enforce the follow on in the second innings central railway were reduced to 41 for 2 by stumps and indian oil would be now licking in anticipation of a victory that may help them march into the semis apart from neelkanth parab who scored 62 and seamer sanket bhave took five for 34 no central railway player showed the heart for a fight the conditions were helping me and i focused on keeping the ball in the right areas sandhu told toi it helps the young bowler that his skipper former india opener and exmumbai captain wasim jaffer backs him wasim gives me all the freedom to set fields and lets me bowl the way i want to sandhu said many feel that sandhu lacks the requisite speed for toplevel cricket but the likes of bhuvneshwar kumar have proved that effective use of swing and seam can make up for express pace sandhu sr was happy for his namesake making a case for himself after a while he is a decent bowler as long as he works on his fitness he should be useful for mumbai cricket the former india seamer remarked on his part sandhu jr said a mumbai comeback tops my priority list now brief scores division a group a air india sports club 314 hrishikesh kanitkar 91 moondeep mangela 56 sushant marathe 47 pankaj singh 32 anureet singh 471 vs western railway sports association b 2588 abhishek kaushik 92 bhargav merai 73 shadab khan 31 pankaj singh 426 dy patil group a 336 swapnil asnodkar 132 iqbal abdullah 46 shoaib shaikh 45 akhil herwadkar 38 kiran adhav 477 swapnil hazare 369 vs bharat petroleum corporation ltd 855 sitanshu kotak 34 iqbal abdullah 421 indian oil sports club 307 ravikant shukla 38 abbas ali 33 sanket bhaye 534 omkar salvi