Nirmal Ramgi's sparkling form with the bat helped Friends United put their promotion dream back on track.

United were chasing Dharmaj's total of 176  but it took until the last ball of the 40 overs for captain Yogesh Nagpal to hit the required runs and take the haul to 178-8.

Division Two leaders Dharmaj won the toss and chose to bat first. 

The openers began well by scoring 30 in the first 6 overs but then Ramesh took a catch at short mid-off to dismiss Rishi. 

Then new star Sudhir took three wickets including Dharmaj star player Prinay with a beautiful inswinger.

Mohit and Devang then batted well and looked set to take score to 200 until captain Yogesh handed ball to Dharmik Premji, a 16 year old left-arm spinner in his first ever competitive game, who dismissed Devang and took two more wickets in next over to check Dharmaj progress.

Dharmik finished with 3/24 in 8 overs and Dharmaj were all out for 176 in 37th over.

In reply, Friends United reverted back to their old opening combination of Nirmal Ramgi and Piyush Vanraj who started scoring at five an over to record the first 50 opening partnership of the season for United.

They took the score to 61 without loss in 12th over when a low ball accounted for Piyush (24 runs from 31 balls).

Ramesh Magan and Sudhir then soon followed but Nirmal carried on at one end.  Some quick runs by Jigar gave Nirmal some good support until he fell on 51 runs.

Jigar (14 runs from 16 balls) then got run out trying to take risky single but Kirit Mohane (19 runs) and Dinesh Carsane (20 from 15 balls) took Friends United closer to victory.

They needed one run from last over but some good bowling by Devang Amin accounted for both of them.

This led to a tense finish as Yogesh couldn’t get away for a single required for win.

It came to the last ball but the captain stayed calmed, stroked towards mid-on, and ran like a train to complete a memorable win.