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Hyderabad take first innings lead
Hyderabad had the edge over reigning champions Karnataka at stumps on the second day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Gymkhana ground in Secundarabad on Friday
08-Jan-2000
Hyderabad had the edge over reigning champions Karnataka at stumps on
the second day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Gymkhana
ground in Secundarabad on Friday. They took a first innings lead of 43
runs and then scored 21 without loss in their second innings at close
of play.
Resuming at six for no loss, Karnataka lost two wickets for 24 before
opener J Arun Kumar and Rowland Barrington each of whom got 37,
effected a recovery with a third wicket partnership of 65 runs off
24.1 overs. They fell in successive overs however and with the
consistent A Vijay being dismissed for 9, Karnataka were again in
trouble at 107 for five.
Tilak Naidu (45) and S Shiraguppi (29) then retreived the innings with
a sixth wicket partnership of 56 runs off 17 overs before the former
gave off spinner Kanwaljit Singh a return catch. Naidu faced 104 balls
and hit six fours. Wickets then fell in a heap and Karnataka were 178
for nine. However a last wicket stand of 34 runs off 12.3 overs
between D Ganesh (19) and GN Umesh (7) saw Karnataka get a bit closer
to the Hyderabad total. For Hyderabad, Kanwaljit Singh (3 for 53) and
JS Yadav (3 for 63) did most of the damage.
Full postPunjab squander away a good start
In between early morning fog which delayed the start of play and bad light which ended play early, Punjab scored 191 for five off 61.5 overs in the 260 minutes possible on the opening day of the four day MA Chidambaram Trophy (under-19) match against
08-Jan-2000
In between early morning fog which delayed the start of play and bad
light which ended play early, Punjab scored 191 for five off 61.5
overs in the 260 minutes possible on the opening day of the four day
MA Chidambaram Trophy (under-19) match against Rest of India at the
Dhruv Pandove stadium in Patiala on Friday. All the five wickets were
taken by opening bowler Gagandeep Singh.
Punjab, who had emerged winners of the all India under-19 tournament
last month at Jamshedpur, actually squandered away a good
start. Openers Chetan Sharma (64) and D Mohan (95) put on 113 runs off
41.1 overs. Chetan who faced 131 balls, hit ten fours. Ratan Kumar
(17) then helped Mohan to add 44 runs for the second wicket off 10
overs. But at 157, Gagandeep Singh dismissed Ratan Kumar and skipper
R Gupta with successive deliveries. Mohan however seemed to be
proceeding serenely towards his hundred but when five short of the
mark he was adjudged leg before to Gagandeep Singh. Mohan faced 173
balls and hit 14 fours. He was fourth out at 185. With his next ball,
Gagandeep Singh bowled AS Srivastava. At close, A Pandey (8) and US
Karavadra (2) were at the crease. Gagandeep, used in short spells had
taken five for 38 off 13.2 overs at the truncated end.
Full postBengal opt for batting practice
Bengal opted for batting practice on the final day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy match against Bihar which ended in a tame draw at the Keenan stadium in Jamshedpur on Thursday
07-Jan-2000
Bengal opted for batting practice on the final day of their East
Zone Ranji Trophy match against Bihar which ended in a tame draw
at the Keenan stadium in Jamshedpur on Thursday.
Having already gained a first innings lead of 36 runs when they
resumed at 377 for five, Bengal batted almost throughout the final
day before they were all out for 561. Skipper Utpal Chatterjee was
out for 30 while Saba Karim, who was 105 overnight, went on to
make 129. The Bengal tail then wagged. WP Majumdar, at No 8,
scored 50 off 90 balls with three fours. S Panda, at No 9, hit 48
off 89 with four boundary hits. And AA Lahiri at No 10 remained not
out on 28 off 48 balls with two fours. Even last man Abdul
Masood chipped in with 13 off 40 deliveries. Avinash Kumar sent
down 77 overs to capture four wickets for 172 while Satish Singh
took four for 129 off 38.3 overs. In the remaining time, Bihar
scored 51 for one in 22 overs when stumps were finally drawn.
Bengal got five points and Bihar three.
Full postKale's unbeaten 248 steers Maharashtra to a draw
Abhijit Vasant Kale's monumental unbeaten 248 helped Maharashtra earn an honourable draw against Baroda in their West Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Thursday
07-Jan-2000
Abhijit Vasant Kale's monumental unbeaten 248 helped Maharashtra earn
an honourable draw against Baroda in their West Zone Ranji Trophy
match at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Thursday.
The final day indeed belonged to the 26-year-old Kale. He was unbeaten
on 77 at stumps on the third day with Maharashtra, forced to follow on
180 runs behind, on 176 for three. But Kale received splendid support
from tailender SV Aradhye and with Santanu Sugwekar, KD Aphale and SA
Shah also playing valuable roles, Maharashtra batted almost the whole
day before being all out for 449 in 135.5 overs.
In the morning, overnight not out batsmen Kale and Aphale took the
total to 186 before the latter was out for 37. The fourth wicket stand
had put on 89 runs off 35.4 overs. Then Shah (32) helped Kale add 49
runs for the fifth wicket off 11.4 overs. But the quick dismissals of
SD Lande and Iqbal Siddiqui left Maharashtra facing defeat at 246 for
seven. However Kale found able support in No 9 Aradhye. The two went
on to add 198 runs for the eighth wicket 49.2 overs. Kale who already
reached his century now proceeded calmly past his double hundred. By
the time Aradhye was out for 58, compiled off 157 balls and inclusive
of five hits to the ropes, the match was well and truly saved even
though Maharashtra batted one short, being without their skipper and
wicketkeeper SM Kondhalkar who could not bat after sustaining an
injury in the first innings. Kale who had come in on Wednesday at the
end of the first over with the score four for one, remained
unconquered after batting 548 minutes. He faced 367 minutes and hit 32
fours and a six. In the remaining time Baroda were 34 for no loss in
their second innings. Baroda got five points and Maharashtra three.
Full postKotak, Parmar help Saurashtra draw with Mumbai
Two invaluable half centuries by skipper Sitanshu Kotak and wicketkeeper MM Parmar and their 111 run partnership for the fifth wicket saw Saurashtra escape with a draw in their West Zone Ranji Trophy match against Mumbai at the Wankhede stadium in
07-Jan-2000
Two invaluable half centuries by skipper Sitanshu Kotak and
wicketkeeper MM Parmar and their 111 run partnership for the fifth
wicket saw Saurashtra escape with a draw in their West Zone Ranji
Trophy match against Mumbai at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on
Thursday.
Chasing an unlikely target of 487 runs, Saurashtra who were 33 without
loss at stumps on the third day lost wickets at regular intervals and
were facing a heavy defeat at 55 for four wickets. Paras Mhambrey and
Abhey Kuruvilla, who had caused most of the damage in the first
innings shared the wickets. However Kotak and Parmar by careful
batting initiated a recovery process. The two ultimately added 111
runs off 39.2 overs before the captain was out for 52. Kotak displayed
concentration and concentration for 224 minutes. He faced 169 balls
and hit five fours. Parmar followed a few overs later. His 67 was
compiled off 128 balls and he hit nine fours and a six. Tailenders DN
Chudasama and N Odedra consumed valuable time in scoring 13 and 12
runs respectively. While Chudasama batted 87 minutes, faced 64 balls
and hit two fours, Odedra batted 107 minutes, faced 69 balls and hit
one four. When stumps were finally drawn, Saurashtra were 206 for
eight off 106 overs. Mhambrey and Kuruvilla took three wickets each.
Mumbai earned five points and Saurashtra three.
Full postTamil Nadu poised for innings victory
Tamil Nadu were poised for an innings victory over Goa at stumps on the second day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy match at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Friday
07-Jan-2000
Tamil Nadu were poised for an innings victory over Goa at stumps on
the second day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy match at the MA
Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Friday. After dismissing the
visitors for 112 and gaining a first innings lead of 334, Tamil Nadu
enforced the follow on and took four Goa wickets for 90 runs at close.
Tamil Nadu totally dominated the day's proceedings. Resuming at 350
for 7, they declared their innings at 446 for eight. Overnight not out
batsmen Tanveer Jabbar and S Mahesh added 154 runs for the eighth
wicket off 36.5 overs before the latter was out for 77. Mahesh faced
122 balls and hit ten of them to the ropes. Sharath delayed the
declaration till Jabbar got his century. At the declaration, Jabbar, a
right handed stylist was unbeaten with exactly 100. He faced just 119
balls and hit 14 fours and two sixes. Opening bowler A Aware finished
with five for 125 off 29 overs.
Goa's batting problems started early. In his first over, Mahesh
removed A Bhagwat. In his next over, he got rid of V Kolambkar, also
for a duck. Except for YC Barde, the rest of the batsmen succumbed
meekly before Mahesh and off spinner Aashish Kapoor. Barde made 69
off 100 balls with ten fours and a six. He came in when the score was
five for two in the third over and was eighth out at 112 in the 38th
over. N Naik when 14 was hit on the left hand by a ball from Mahesh
and retired hurt. Mahesh finished with four for 37 off 16 overs while
Kapoor had three for 30 from ten overs.
Goa fared only a little better in the follow on. Wickets fell at
regular intervals and Goa face a virtually impossible task in staving
off an innings defeat.
Full postKeen finish likely in Andhra-Kerala game
The low scoring Andhra-Kerala South Zone Ranji Trophy match is poised for a keen finish
07-Jan-2000
The low scoring Andhra-Kerala South Zone Ranji Trophy match is poised
for a keen finish. At stumps on the second day at the Regional
Engineering college ground in Kozhikode on Friday, Andhra had an
overall lead of 151 runs with two second innings wickets intact.
Off spinner B Ramprakash (6 for 68) played a leading role in
restricting Andhra to a first innings total of 168 on Thursday after
an opening stand of 66 runs between skipper Amit Pathak (31) and LNP
Reddy (48). On Friday, Andhra hit back by keeping the Kerala lead down
to 18 runs. VJT Ram Mohan (4 for 33) and H Watekar (3 for 44) were the
main wicket-takers. Opener S Sashikanth scored a valuable 38 and then
Sunil Oasis and Ramprakash added 55 runs for the fifth wicket off 23.5
overs after four wickets had gone down for 67. Oasis scored 33 while
Ramprakash followed his fine bowling by top scoring with 44 before he
was seventh out in the 57th over. He faced 116 balls and hit five
fours. Skipper KN Ananthapadmanabhan bolstered the late order with a
well struck 30 off 61 balls with two fours and a six, enabling Kerala
to reach 186.
Andhra started well in their second innings with LNP Reddy (49) and
Nagini Kumar (47) adding 70 runs for the second wicket off 27.2
overs. But then Ramprakash and Oasis got among the wickets and Andhra
ended the day at 169 for eight. Ramprakash's 4 for 75 from 25 overs
has already given him ten wickets for the match while Oasis by close,
had taken four for 25 off nine overs.
Full postUmesh restricts Hyderabad
Karnataka medium pacer GN Umesh restricted Hyderabad to a first innings total of 255 on the opening day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Gymkhana ground in Secundarabad on Thursday
07-Jan-2000
Karnataka medium pacer GN Umesh restricted Hyderabad to a first
innings total of 255 on the opening day of their South Zone Ranji
Trophy league match at the Gymkhana ground in Secundarabad on
Thursday.
Winning the toss, Hyderabad made a poor start losing openers AG Shetty
and A Nandakishore with only 18 runs on the board. But Vinay Kumar
(56) and skipper Azharuddin (43) steadied the boat by adding 70 runs
for the third wicket off 18.4 overs. Azharuddin was caught by
Shiraguppi off Umesh after facing 62 balls and hitting six fours and a
six. Vinay Kumar continued to bat in defiant fashion till he was fifth
out at 149, also to Umesh. He faced 152 balls and hit eight
fours. Vanka Pratap contributed a valuable 28 in the middle order and
then tailenders JS Yadav (37) and wicketkeeper Youraj Singh (28) kept
the innings afloat with an eighth wicket partnership of 52 runs off
13.3 overs. Umesh finished with five for 61 off 24 overs. At stumps,
Karnataka were six for no loss after three overs.
Full postNatal v Border preview
The Natal bowling attack will have to show significant improvement in their crucial Super Eight match against Border in East London from Friday if Dale Benkenstein's team are to achieve their aim of reaching the SuperSport Series final
Ken Borland
07-Jan-2000
The Natal bowling attack will have to show significant improvement in their
crucial Super Eight match against Border in East London from Friday if Dale
Benkenstein's team are to achieve their aim of reaching the SuperSport
Series final.
After the wonderful display of their top-order batsmen in the day/night
match against Free State, most of the Natal bowlers seemed intent on handing
the game to the visitors as they just refused to realise that their many
short-pitched deliveries were only helping the batsmen accumulate runs in
their ultimately vain pursuit of a big score of 223.
Gary Gilder and Eldine Baptiste were most at fault and they will be keen to
rectify matters as they have key roles to play in the Natal attack this
weekend.
Border, SuperSport Series finalists last season and seven points ahead of
Natal with a game in hand, have once again built their victories around
their pace attack. In Makhaya Ntini and Vasbert Drakes, they have two
top-class fast bowlers, while Tyron Henderson, although not enjoying quite
as much success as last season, remains a wonderfully watchable practitioner
of the arts of swing and seam.
After his unfortunate brush with the law, the reinstated Ntini will be
particularly keen to impress. He seems to be bowling every bit as quickly as
he was before he was frozen out of cricket, although his control in recent
games has been a problem.
Full postTamil Nadu pull off dramatic victory
Tamil Nadu pulled off a dramatic 12-run victory over Delhi to clinch a semifinal berth in the Vijay Merchant (under-16) Trophy cricket tournament at Thiruvananthapuram on Friday
07-Jan-2000
Tamil Nadu pulled off a dramatic 12-run victory over Delhi to clinch a
semifinal berth in the Vijay Merchant (under-16) Trophy cricket
tournament at Thiruvananthapuram on Friday.
The odds were in favour of Delhi when play resumed on the third and
final day. Chasing 168 for victory, Delhi were 67 without loss at
stumps on Thursday. And things continued to go Delhi's way
initially. Openers G Malhotra (37) and skipper R Jaswal (34) went on
to put on 91 runs in 35.5 overs before the latter was out. In the
following over and without any addition to the score, Malhotra was
dismissed. Sushil Kumar (5) fell at 98 and A Trehan (0) was out at
101.
K Bhardwaj and Deepak Sharma however took the score to 129 and Delhi
needed only 39 runs for victory with six wickets intact. However at
this stage Deepak Sharma (6) was out. A Budania now joined Bhardwaj
and they took the score to 143 when Bhardwaj was run out for 24. S
Khullar and Budania now came together and the 150 was raised. At 151
for six, Delhi were just 17 runs away from victory.
Now came the dramatic denouement. First Khullar was caught by skipper
Aditya Srikkanth off Malick for 2. Off the last ball of the same over,
at the same score, Malick had Abhishek Sharma caught by Vijayasarathy
for a duck. Off the fifth ball of the following over, without any
addition to the score, Rudania gave Vasudevadoss a return catch. And
finally in his next over, after four runs had been added,
Vasudevasdoss had last man Aggarwal caught by Karthik for two and
Delhi were all out for 155. K Lal remained not out on one and Tamil
Nadu had ended surprise victors. The bowling honours were shared by
Vasudevadoss who took two for 30 and Malik who bowled 27 overs to
capture four wickets for 33.
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