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Frontline batsmen bolster Gujarat
Valuable contributions from most of their frontline batsmen saw Gujarat score 260 for six at close of play on the first day of their West Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Mumbai at the Lalbhai Contractor staium in Surat on Monday
28-Dec-1999
Valuable contributions from most of their frontline batsmen saw
Gujarat score 260 for six at close of play on the first day of their
West Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Mumbai at the Lalbhai
Contractor staium in Surat on Monday.
Opener AS Kotecha set the ball rolling with a patient 41 off 75
balls. He hit six fours in his stay of nearly two hours. One drop KS
Padia followed up with a timely 75 off 220 balls. He batted 282
minutes and hit eleven fours. TN Varsani bolstered the middle order
with 53 off 92 balls with eight fours and a six. And skipper and
wicket keeper PH Patel shone in the post tea session with an unbeaten
38 off 83 balls. He has so far batted two hours and hit four
boundaries. Padia and Varsani added 87 runs for the fourth wicket off
27.4 overs and Padia and Patel then put on 70 runs from 25 overs for
the sixth wicket.
Full postComfortable victory for Kerala
An unbeaten 82 run stand for the third wicket between Sanjay Mohan and Sunil Oasis steered Kerala to an eight wicket victory over Goa in the Ranji Trophy one day match at the Rajendra Prasad stadium in Goa on Monday
28-Dec-1999
An unbeaten 82 run stand for the third wicket between Sanjay Mohan
and Sunil Oasis steered Kerala to an eight wicket victory over
Goa in the Ranji Trophy one day match at the Rajendra Prasad
stadium in Goa on Monday.
Goa, put in to bat, were all out for 158 in 49.1 overs. Dinesh Rao
with a gallant 53 off 126 balls with four hits to the ropes was
the only batsman to show some semblance of a fight. Kerala
coasted to victory in 43.4 overs. First MP Sorab (17) and
S Shashikanth (31) put on 55 runs for the first wicket in eleven
overs. And then the third wicket partnership between Mohan (44
off 106 balls with two fours) and Oasis (42 off 63 balls with
seven fours) cemented Kerala's all round superiority.
Full postSecond successive victory for South Zone
South Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK Nayudu Trophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the AC Tech grounds in in Chennai on Tuesday beating West Zone by four wickets
Partab Ramchand
28-Dec-1999
South Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK Nayudu
Trophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the AC Tech
grounds in in Chennai on Tuesday beating West Zone by four wickets.
Put in to bat, West were restricted to 206 for nine in 43
overs. Actually they made a good start with openers Parab (18) and PP
Joshi putting on 32 runs and then Joshi and Nk Patel (35 off 50 balls
with three fours) increasing the score by 72 runs during a second
wicket association that lasted 15.2 overs. Joshi who was run out for
76, faced 104 balls and hit five fours. PP Vora, with a gallant
unbeaten 41 bolstered the middle order but there was precious little
contribution from the others.
South's consistent batting saw them home with three balls to spare.
Openers BA Pai (22) and Amit Kumar (42) put on 51 runs in 12.3
overs. This was followed by a second wicket partnership of 49 runs off
11 overs between Amit Kumar and R Satish. Skipper YV Rao and NA Yadav
then brought South closer to victory with a fourth wicket stand of 45
runs off 6.4 overs. And finally Yadav and DS Doss (28) took South to
the doorstep with a brisk fifth wicket partnership of 45 runs off six
overs. Yadav's 46 was compiled off just 38 balls with two fours and
two sixes while Doss hit 28 off only 26 balls with five hits to the
fence. Rain interupted play twice during the West Zone innings
reducing the number of overs.
Full postNorth Zone win again
North Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK Nayudu Trophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the IIT Chemplast ground in Chennai on Tuesday defeating Central Zone by 26 runs
Partab Ramchand
28-Dec-1999
North Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK Nayudu
Trophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the IIT Chemplast
ground in Chennai on Tuesday defeating Central Zone by 26 runs.
The match saw a keen contest between bat and ball. Put in to bat,
North Zone made a poor start losing three wickets for 53 runs. But
Yuvraj Singh and G Gambhir turned the innings around with a fourth
wicket partnership of 133 runs that lasted 24 overs. Gambhir was then
out for 53, struck off 64 balls. Yuvraj who had dominated the stand
was out in the next over at 201 for a splendid 96. He faced only 94
balls and hit nine fours. An unbeaten sixth wicket partnership of 52
runs in nine overs between A Ratra (22) and SP Singh (29) helped North
to post a challenging total of 253 for five in 50 overs.
Central's openers AV Deshpande and A Kapoor gave their team an
excellent start putting on 135 runs off 31.2 overs. Kapoor was then
out for 59 off 101 balls with three fours. Thereafter however Central
lost wickets at regular intervals and they were all out for 227 in
48.3 overs. Deshpande who was third out at 160 hit 71 off 112 balls
with four hits to the ropes.
Full postEngland undergo astonishing metamorphosis
England underwent an astonishing metamorphosis on the second day of the third Test against South Africa at Kingsmead, finishing on 366 for nine after their first-day crawl to 135 for two which left most of the sizeable crowd close to stupor in
Ken Borland
27-Dec-1999
England underwent an astonishing metamorphosis on the second day of the third Test against South Africa at Kingsmead, finishing on 366 for nine after their first-day crawl to 135 for two which left most of the sizeable crowd close to stupor in sweltering heat.
Following the stultifying batting of the first day, only 8500 people (as compared to Sunday's 15500) turned up at Kingsmead yesterday, but at least they got their money's worth.
Although England captain Nasser Hussain continued his stubborn occupation of the crease and went to England's third slowest Test century ever, Alec Stewart was willing to chance his arm and his 95 off 149 balls was a highly
entertaining innings, charming the crowd with delightful cuts and powerful hooks.
Having looked half-asleep in the field at times - Jonty Rhodes was sorely missed after being controversially omitted from the starting XI - South Africa came to in the final session and were on the brink of dismissing the tourists when Hussain accepted the offer of bad light and took the England innings into a third day with 400 looking out of reach.
Full postSriram Leads Tamil Nadu Recovery
Left handed all rounder S Sriram underlined his growing stature in Indian cricket on Monday
Partab Ramchand
27-Dec-1999
Left handed all rounder S Sriram underlined his growing stature
in Indian cricket on Monday. With a fighting unbeaten 112 he
rescued Tamil Nadu from a poor start and helped the home team to
post a very respectable score of 252 for four wickets at close of
play on the first day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy tie
against Hyderabad at the MA Chidambaram stadium.
The full value of Sriram's innings should be seen against
the background of Tamil Nadu being eleven for two at the end of
the seventh over. Sriram himself came in when Ashish Kapoor was
out for a duck to the first ball of the second over. He was caught
at gully by Venkatpathi Raju off MF Ahmed. A little later, Anand
George was leg before to NP Singh for four.
Sriram, who performed commendably as a member of the India A team
which recently went to the West Indies, found an able partner
in another left hander Hemang Badani. The two initiated the
recovery process with a third wicket partnership of 91 runs in
30.5 overs. Badani dominated the stand with some fine strokes and
when he was out for 52 off 93 balls he had hit five fours and a
six. Sriram by this time was set for a long innings and he
and Madanagopal consolidated the recovery by adding 119 runs for
the fourth wicket off 35.1 overs. Madanagopal was then run out
by Nandakishore for 55. The in form youngster faced 112 balls and
hit seven fours.
Sriram, who was 30 at lunch and 63 at tea, turned on the heat in
the last session. In the company of skipper Robin Singh,
Sriram proceeded to his century with a series of thrilling strokes
and by close had batted 344 minutes, faced 275 balls and hit ten
fours. The manner in which he paced his innings was exemplary.
Robin, content to let Sriram hold centre stage by stumps had
faced 51 balls to score seven runs.
Full postIndian Domestic: One sided matches in Vinoo Mankad Trophy
The disappointing aspect of the Vinoo Mankad Trophy (under-16) matches played in Calcutta over the weekend were the number of lop sided games
Partab Ramchand
27-Dec-1999
The disappointing aspect of the Vinoo Mankad Trophy (under-16)
matches played in Calcutta over the weekend were the number of
lop sided games. Only one match out of ten had a close finish.
Another feature was the large number of extras conceded in most
of the matches.
Riding on an opening stand of 96 runs between P Kanishkar (58)
and skipper N Vetrivel (60), Tamil Nadu defeated Daman & Diu by
80 runs. Batting first, Tamil Nadu scored 180 for 6 in 25 overs.
While Vetrivel hit six fours, the more aggressive Kanishkar hit
ten fours. In reply Daman & Diu were all out for 100 in 17 overs,
the total being boosted by as many as 30 extras.
Valuable knocks by skipper Naveen Kumar (48 with seven fours)
and Manjunath (57 with four fours and four sixes) and their
second wicket partnership of 92 runs was the highlight of
Karnataka's six wicket victory over Chandigarh. Batting first, Chandigarh were restricted to 159 for seven in 25 overs.
Karnataka were home with 1.3 overs to spare.
Uttar Pradesh scored a facile 92 run win over Punjab. Batting
first, UP hit up 216 for five in only 21 overs. Pankaj Pandey
(90 with 14 fours and a six) and Bashant Kant Sharma (64 with
ten fours and two sixes) and their second wicket stand of 132
runs from only 12.5 overs featured the innings. Punjab in reply
could score only 124 runs in 22.2 overs with Gurpreet top scoring
with 46.
Full postIndian Domestic: Three ten wicket victories
The three matches played over the weekend in the National schools cricket championship at New Delhi all ended in the same result - a ten wicket victory
Partab Ramchand
27-Dec-1999
The three matches played over the weekend in the National schools cricket championship at New Delhi all ended in the same result - a
ten wicket victory.
Delhi wasted little time in racing to victory over Rajasthan on Saturday. Put in to bat, Rajasthan were shot out for 67 in 22.2
overs with opening bowler Agarwal being the wrecker-in-chief
capturing five for 23. Delhi openers Rajender Bist (40 off 54
balls with six fours) and Sandeep Chawla (18 off 21 balls with
two fours) hit off the requisite runs in 12.3 overs.
On Sunday, Delhi scored another ten wicket victory, this time
over Jammu & Kashmir. Winning the toss, J & K scored 161 for eight
in the allotted 40 overs. Mir Mohsin top scored with an unbeaten 47
off 55 balls with three fours and three sixes while 26 extras
inflated the total. Delhi however made light of their target
with openers Rajender Bist (73 off 82 balls with 12 fours) and
Sandeep Chawla (61 off 95 balls with seven fours) hitting the
required runs off 29.3 overs.
Chandigarh were another team to cruise to a similar victory,
their opponents being Kerala. Put in to bat, Kerala were all
out for 113 in 35.4 overs. Opener Sudeep Kumar (32) was the top
scorer while the total was boosted by 30 extras. Amit Verma was
the most successful bowler with five for 18 off five overs.
Chandigarh openers Anurag Chopra (48 off 60 balls) and Ruban
Verma (42 off 70 balls) hit off the required runs in 17.4 overs.
Both batsmen hit six fours.
Full postIndian Domestic: Calicut Varsity win in double quick time
Mercifully the weather improved, the players heaved a sigh of relief and Sunday's schedule in the South Zone inter university cricket tournament in Chennai went on unhindered and easy victories were the order of the day
Partab Ramchand
27-Dec-1999
Mercifully the weather improved, the players heaved a sigh of
relief and Sunday's schedule in the South Zone inter university
cricket tournament in Chennai went on unhindered and easy victories
were the order of the day.
Calicut for example wasted no time in racing to a ten wicket
victory over PS Telungu at the Pachaiyappa's college ground.
Batting first, PS Telungu were skittled out for 31 runs in
19.5 overs. They lost their first six wickets for eight runs
with the top five batsmen failing to score. All of them were
out to Hisham. Naveen Babu with 13 was the only batsman to
reach double digits. Hisham finished with five for 11 from five
overs. The Calicut openers hit off the requisite runs in just
6.5 overs.
At the University Union ground, Alagappa defeated University
of Agricultural Sciences by 98 runs. Winning the toss, Alagappa
scored 212 for nine in 49 overs with opener S Vijayakumar top
scoring with 93. He hit seven fours. In reply University of Agricultural Sciences made a shocking start losing half the side
for 18 runs. They never really recovered and were all out for
114 runs in 39 overs. Opening bowlers Alagesan and Raja Manikandan
who did the early damage finished with three wickets each. The
former had the excellent figures of 9-4-7-3.
Karnataka cruised to an eight wicket victory over Jawaharlal
Nehru Technological University (JNTU) at the Sree Ramachandra
Medical college grounds in Porur. Batting first, JNTU were shot
out for 60 in 20.1 overs. Opener Vishnuvardhan Babu with 18 was
the only batsman to reach double figures, extras being the next
best with 14. Karnataka raced to victory in just 11.3 overs.
Full postSouth Zone bounce back
South Zone, which had lost to North Zone on the opening day on Sunday, bounced right back into contention in the CK Nayudu Trophy (under-19) inter zonal tournament in Chennai on Monday with a 55-run victory over Central Zone at the Southern Railway
Partab Ramchand
27-Dec-1999
South Zone, which had lost to North Zone on the opening day on
Sunday, bounced right back into contention in the CK Nayudu
Trophy (under-19) inter zonal tournament in Chennai on Monday
with a 55-run victory over Central Zone at the Southern
Railway grounds.
Put in to bat, South Zone made a shocking start losing three
wickets for 19 in nine overs. But thereafter it was South Zone
all the way. Skipper YV Rao and NA Yadav got entrenched in a
fourth wicket association which added 170 runs off 34.3 overs.
Yadav, who dominated the partnership, was out for exactly 100 for
which he batted only 137 minutes. He faced just 86 balls and hit
six fours and four sixes. Vidyuth Sivaramakrishnan (13) then helped
his skipper to add 41 runs for the fourth wicket off just 3.5 overs.
In the last couple of overs, Rao really went for the bowling and at
the end of the 50 overs, when South Zone had recovered to post a
total of 257 for five, the skipper was unbeaten with 107. He batted
174 minutes, faced 147 balls and hit five fours and two sixes.
Central Zone, who had defeated East Zone on Sunday, lost wickets
at regular intervals and never really had a chance of getting
anywhere the tough target. There was no long partnership, only
two stands of 31 for the seventh and last wickets. Opener AV
Deshpande scored a gallant 55 before he was sixth out at 131.
He faced 99 balls and hit only one four. Left arm spinner
Vidyuth was the most successful bowler with three for 38 as
Central Zone were all out for 202 in 46.5 overs.
At the Guru Nanak college grounds, the Duckworth-Lewis method came
into the picture as West Zone defeated East Zone by six wickets.
Put in to bat, East Zone were all out for 93 runs in 40.4 overs.
They made a bad start losing three wickets for 19. MS Dhoni, who
top scored with 32 off 82 balls with a four and a six and A Hashmi
(14) added 41 runs for the fourth wicket in 16.4 overs. But then
there was another slump and the last seven East Zone wickets fell
for the addition of only 33 runs.
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