Kolkata, Sep 2 - Air India held Senegal's A.S. Douanes goalless while Churchill Brothers and Mohammedan Sporting finished 1-1 in group league clashes of the 114th IFA Shield football tournament Wednesday.

The Goan outfit Churchill Brothers surged ahead in the 27th minute through a Reishangvi Vashum strike, but Dipendu Biswas cancelled the lead at the stroke of the half hour at Barasat stadium, where the rivals dished out a pedestrian variety of the game.

A long ball from Naoba Singh was well followed up by Vashum, who received with his left foot and then let loose a volley off a half turn to make the scoreline 1-0 in the group B tie.

But the lead was offset within three minutes as a Peter Odafe centre was headed home by Dipendu.

After two games, sporting are now on four points, while Churchill have one.