The North Zone Under 19 team won the Vinoo Mankad Trophy at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on January 1st beating Rest of India by three wickets

05-Jan-2000

The North Zone Under 19 team won the Vinoo Mankad Trophy at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on January 1st beating Rest of India by three wickets. The Vinoo Mankad trophy is contested by the winner of the CK Nayudu inter zonal tournament and the Rest of India. North had won the CK Nayudu Trophy just a day earlier after winning all four matches in the round robin league.

The Rest of India won the toss and made 223-7 in their 50 overs. Prashant Joshi top scored with 95 (106 balls, 6 fours, 1 six) before he was run out and Sushant Manjrekar provided the acceleration towards the end with an unbeaten 41 off 43 balls (3 fours, 1 six). For North Ravneet Ricky took two wickets but captain Reetinder Sodhi was the best bowler with figures of 10-4-25-1.

North openers Ravneet Ricky(66) and Manish Sharma (76) then seemed to have taken the game away from the Rest by putting on 141 for the first wicket in 35.5 overs. But Rest captain Venugopala Rao triggered a collapse by ripping out the North top order. He grabbed 5 wickets in the space of 20 balls to reduce North to 168-5 and the game again hung in the balance. When North lost their seventh wicket at 203 from the last ball of the 47th over they needed 21 from 24 balls. But Chetan Sharma put the issue beyond doubt with a rousing 17 from 7 balls as North won with an over to spare. No.4 Yuvraj Singh had withstood all the mayhem from the other end with an unruffled 36 from 28 balls. Rao ended with 5-37 from 9 overs.

The list of 25 probables for the Under 19 World Cup beginning January 11 will be pruned to a final squad of 15 by the junior national selection committee when they meet at Chennai tomorrow.

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ODI No. 1: WI v NZ: Auckland - A Review

Maybe Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain, is right

Colin Croft

02-Jan-2000

Maybe Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain, is right. Right now, the West Indies cricket team does seem to be more prepared and certainly more suited for one day cricket than for Tests. The effort put out by the West Indies to win their first game of the new Millenium was considerable and pleasing to watch.

The move by Brian Lara to bat at No. 3 after Sherwin Campbell and Ridley Jacobs had given the West Indies a great start of 111 runs in only 18 overs was also a good, positive gamble. Lara seemed determined to make the first game of 2000 into a winner for the West Indies. He could even be excused if he thought, but did not voice, that he might have been let down by his bowlers when they batted, but especially when they bowled.

With such a start, 96-0 from the first 15 overs, the West Indies should have made at least 300 runs, especially after Daniel Vettori, New Zealand's leg spinner, had completed his wonderful stint of 10-1-28-1 in the middle overs. Nathan Astle has become more useful as an all-rounder, contributing a needed 9-0-37-1 to New Zealand's effort, after Chris Cairns left the field with a suspected back problem. It must be pleasing to his captain that Astle is becoming such a player. Meanwhile, the lower middle order of the West Indies just did not fire.

The first five West Indian batsmen, Campbell, Jacobs, Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ricardo Powell all made double figures, with the first three getting half centuries. Yet, the West Indies deteriorated from being 249-3 to being 268-7, their final score, in the space of three overs. When a team is tentative in its beliefs and not confident of its own efforts, such things as giving away the initial advantage do happen.

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NZ Beats Windies and Rain

The West Indies looked like a team intent on revenge for their test series savaging in the opening match of the one-day series against New Zealand

Chris Rosie

02-Jan-2000

The West Indies looked like a team intent on revenge for their test series savaging in the opening match of the one-day series against New Zealand.

Brian Lara won the toss and sent in Sherwin Campbell and Ridley Jacobs to face Dion Nash and Chris Cairns on an Eden Park pitch that had already been used for a domestic one-dayer, a match that produced just 223 runs.

Six runs off the first over set the scene. Cairns went for 11 in his second. Jacobs hit a six off Nash in the fifth. It all added up to 27 runs off the first five overs, Jacobs and Campbell employing the ideal mixture of quick singles and controlled hitting.

In the seventh over, Stephen Fleming brought the left-arm paceman Shayne O'Connor on for Nash, whose three overs had cost 14 runs. The run-rate did not slacken, six coming from the over.

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Mumbai force Gujarat into a corner

Paras Mhambrey pushed Gujarat to the brink of defeat at stumps on the third day of their four day West Zone Ranji Trophy match against Mumbai at the Lalabhai Contractor stadium in Surat on Wednesday

30-Dec-1999

Paras Mhambrey pushed Gujarat to the brink of defeat at stumps on the third day of their four day West Zone Ranji Trophy match against Mumbai at the Lalabhai Contractor stadium in Surat on Wednesday. In arrears by 114 runs on the first innings, Gujarat were 93 for six at close of play.

Replying to Gujarat's first innings total of 305, Maharashtra were all out for 419. They were given a fine start with openers Wasim Jaffer and AA Pagnis putting on 123 runs in 35.5 overs. Pagnis was out for 52, compiled off 100 balls and inclusive of eight hits to the fence. Then Jaffar and Vinod Kambli got entrenched in a fourth wicket association that added 152 runs from 44.4 overs. Jaffer was then out for a marathon 173 for which he occupied the crease for 409 minutes. He faced 312 deliveries and hit 21 fours and a six. Kambli then kept the innings going until he was last out for 116. He faced 203 balls and hit eleven fours and a six.

When Gujarat batted a second time, Mhambrey struck early and then wickets fell at regular intervals. Opener ND Modi stood firm with an unbeaten 38 for which he batted a shade over three hours but Mhambrey cut through the batting and by stumps had taken four for 15.

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Nandakishore steers Hyderabad to a draw

Hyderabad held Tamil Nadu to a draw by batting through the final day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Thursday

30-Dec-1999

Hyderabad held Tamil Nadu to a draw by batting through the final day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Thursday.

Hyderabad were chiefly indebted to A Nandakishore. The opening batsman batted 443 minutes and faced 301 balls and hit 13 fours in compiling 135. He was sixth out at 295. His third wicket partnership of 123 runs with skipper Md Azharuddin (69) played a leading role in Hyderabad drawing the game. Azharuddin faced 94 balls and hit nine fours. Nandakishore and MF Ahmed (51 off 146 balls with nine fours) ensured that Hyderabad would hold out for a draw with a sixth wicket stand of 61 runs off 18.3 overs. Hyderabad, who had followed on after falling 199 runs behind on the first innings, ended at 338 for eight. Aashish Kapoor who took four wickets in the first innings, again bagged four wickets for 97 runs. Tamil Nadu got five points and Hyderabad three.

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Fateful loss for WI

As they seemed fated to do, West Indies lost the second Test to New Zealand by an innings and 105 runs with a day to spare at the Basin Reserve yesterday, but the West Indians had fought tenaciously, and deserved better than what appeared to be

Don Cameron

30-Dec-1999

Afterward Brian Lara, the captain who led the rearguard action nobly, the coach Sir Viv Richards and the manager Clive Lloyd maintained a tight-lipped attitude - that now seems to be part of the International Cricket Councils (ICC) code of conduct - when asked their opinion about the umpiring.

Lara politely remarked that cricketers took the rough with the smooth.

One of those who benefited, Dion Nash, the New Zealand seamer who took four wickets for 38, said that some days bowlers have decisions go against them, and on other days they get decisions which tend to balance out the matter.

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Kerala defeat Goa in two days

Kerala completed an emphatic ten wicket victory over Goa on the second day of their four day South Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Rajendra Prasad stadium in Margao on Wednesday

30-Dec-1999

Kerala completed an emphatic ten wicket victory over Goa on the second day of their four day South Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Rajendra Prasad stadium in Margao on Wednesday.

Goa batting first were bowled out for 105 in 52 overs. R Menon (5 for 45) and Suresh Kumar (5 for 21) shared the wickets. Kerala lost four wickets for 32 but a fifth wicket partnership of 99 runs between B Ramprakash (53) and Sunil Oasis (76) played a vital role in Kerala gaining a first innings lead of 129 runs. Medium pacer A Aware was the most successful bowler taking six wickets for 96. Goa put up another poor show in their second innings and were all out for 134 in 48.1 overs, leaving Kerala to get only six runs for victory.

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Waugh of attrition again goes Australia's all-conquering way

So remarkable is the ability of Australian teams these days that the task of successfully standing in the path between them and victory borders on the verge of impossibility

John Polack

30-Dec-1999

So remarkable is the ability of Australian teams these days that the task of successfully standing in the path between them and victory borders on the verge of impossibility. Or so it seems at least after the locals today completed another resounding triumph, this time over India by the margin of 180 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

To win a Test match is an exacting exercise in itself; it is another thing again to win a series (as Australia has now done in this three match battle by virtue of its 2-0 lead); but to win six contests in a row at this level is a feat of rare accomplishment. Indeed, only one Australian team in the history of Test cricket has a more coveted record of consecutive triumphs - Warwick Armstrong's 1920/21 outfit and its eight consecutive successes the only combination this current side has still to equal. Yet the Australians achieved their win today with a minimum of fuss, a minimum of angst, and even a relative minimum of wickets from principal strike bowlers Glenn McGrath (0/22) and Shane Warne (1/63). While Sachin Tendulkar (52) again devoted himself admirably to the cause of reviving India's fortunes, and although he was offered more support today with the bat than he has been for much of this series, the result was rarely in doubt. Under the leadership of Steve Waugh, the purposeful Australians duly achieved this win with the same emphatic force that has accompanied most of the previous five.

Waugh's midas touch as a captain in fact continued to glitter in many ways today. Indeed, somehow he found a way to conjure two completely unexpected, yet spectacularly successful, bowling changes in the midst of the innings that went a long distance to securing the win.

The first came in the shadows of lunch (the penultimate ball of the morning session no less) when part time medium pacer Greg Blewett turned an uncertain Sourav Ganguly (17) drive at an innocuous, wide delivery into a fatal one by attracting an inside edge which directed the ball into the visibly shattered left hander's stumps.

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Orissa get five points, Bengal three

Orissa opted for batting practice and five points as their four day East Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Bengal ended in a tame draw at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday

30-Dec-1999

Orissa opted for batting practice and five points as their four day East Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Bengal ended in a tame draw at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. Bengal got three points.

Orissa had gained a first innings lead of 95 and were 24 without loss at close of play on the third day. They batted throughout the final day and ended at 336 for five off 90 overs. Opener and skipper SS Das and P Mullick added 146 runs for the second wicket off 38.2 overs. While Das was out for 82 compiled off 156 balls with eleven fours and a six, Mullick remained unbeaten with 111. He faced 219 balls, and hit 13 fours and a six. Raul chipped in with a bright 52 off 54 balls with seven fours and two sixes. He and Mullick added 96 runs for the third wicket.

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Aphale helps Maharashtra take big lead

KD Aphale scored 158 as Maharashtra took a big first innings lead of 214 runs over Saurashtra at the end of the third day of their four day West Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Deccan Gymkhana ground in Pune on Wednesday

30-Dec-1999

Replying to Saurashtra's 217, Maharashtra were all out for 431. At close of play on the penultimate day, Saurashtra were 165 for two in their second innings.

AV Kale, at No 4 scored a valuable 84. He faced 144 balls and hit eleven fours and added 76 runs for the fourth wicket with veteran S Sugwekar (26). But the Maharashtra innings really gathered momentum when Aphale and SD Lande put on 167 runs for the sixth wicket off 45.2 overs. Lande was out for 62, compiled off 138 balls and inclusive of eight hits to the ropes. Aphale however continued to bat till he was last out after batting 333 minutes. He faced 234 balls and hit 22 fours. Opening bowler SS Gansondia was the one bowler to make an impression with a bag of five for 90.

Saurashtra in their second innings were given a good start by openers Vasanth Kumar (46) and SS Tanna (19) who put on 65 runs off 24 overs. This start was consolidated upon by an unbeaten third wicket partnership of 94 runs off 40.3 overs between skipper Sitanshu Kotak (39) and PJ Bhatt (54).

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