IES New English School (Bandra) earned promotion to the Elite Division of the Mumbai Schools Sports Association Giles Shield after three years by trouncing Balmohan Vidyamandir (Dadar) by an innings and 83 runs in the Plate Division final at Azad Maidan yesterday.

The Bandra school’s bowlers — left-arm-spinner Vighnesh Solanki and left-arm chinaman Abhishek Dayalkar — stole the show by taking nine (3-35 and 6-26) and eight wickets (6-36 and 2-38) respectively in the final.