Salvi ran through the State Bank of Travancore's line-up with a five-wicket haul to help bowl them out for 139. Riding on Samson's 60, BPCL chased down the target in 18.3 overs.
In the other matches ONGC scored a thrilling one-run win over Mumbai Customs, DY Patil (B) beat Canara Bank by eight wickets and CAG got the better of Future Group by five wickets.
Brief scores:
Group A: ONGC 167-7 in 20 overs (Milind Kumar 40, Tanmay Srivastav 36, Rahul Terwatia 33 not out; Ankush Jaiswal 2-17, Ankur Singh 2-38) beat Mumbai Customs 166-6 in 20 overs (Asad Pathan 59, Parag Khanapurkar 36; Ankit Singh 2-41, Rahul Terwatia 2-39) by one run.
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Group D: State Bank of Travancore 139 in 20 overs (Tejas CM 49, Raiphi Vincent Gomez 26; Avishkar Salvi 5-12, Anupam Sanklecha 2-34) lost to BPCL 142-4 in 18.3 overs (Sanju Samson 60, Vinit Indulkar 22 not out) by six wickets
Group C: Canara Bank 122-8 in 20 overs (Suneel Raju 27, Sadiq Kirmani 25; Prateek Dabholkar 2-19, Pravin Tambe 2-13) lost to DY Patil (B) 123-2 in 13.2 overs (Shashank Singh 53, Aman Khan 34 not out) by eight wickets. PTI SSR