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Baroda squeak past Railways on first innings
Baroda's last wicket pair of Rashid Patel and Valmik Buch helped their side past Railways' first innings total of 506 on the final day of their Super League encounter at Delhi's Karnail Singh Stadium today
19-Feb-2000
Baroda's last wicket pair of Rashid Patel and Valmik Buch helped their
side past Railways' first innings total of 506 on the final day of
their Super League encounter at Delhi's Karnail Singh Stadium today.
The draw meant that Baroda maintain their position at the top of the
table in Group B with 13 points from two matches while Railways had to
be content with 3 points in their pipe opener.
It was a commendable fightback by the Baroda batsmen after resuming at
241/3. Although HR Jadhav duly completed his century (109 in 234
balls, 9 fours, 1 six), he was fourth out at 280. M Mewada (37) and
Atul Bedade (51) put on 77 for the 5th wicket before they both fell in
the space of seven balls to make it 358/6. Skipper Tushar Arothe (41)
and AP Bhoite (52) then proceeded to revive Baroda's hopes with an 81
run 7th wicket stand. After Arothe's loss, Bhoite and Patel (53 not
out) carried the score to 495/7 before a double strike in three balls
by part time bowler Yere Goud had Baroda reeling. But Patel and Buch
rose to the occasion and nursed Baroda to the vital first innings
lead. Baroda was 516/9 when play was called off four overs early.
Baroda now take on Punjab at Mohali while Railways play Bihar at
Jamshedpur, both from February 24-27.
Full postKarnataka claim maximum points
Karnataka completed a 139 run victory over Rajasthan in their Super League tie at the RSI Ground in Bangalore today but they were kept in the field for longer than they would have bargained for on the final morning as the Rajasthan tail wagged on
19-Feb-2000
Karnataka completed a 139 run victory over Rajasthan in their Super
League tie at the RSI Ground in Bangalore today but they were kept in
the field for longer than they would have bargained for on the final
morning as the Rajasthan tail wagged on.
It took all of 17.4 overs for Karnataka to wrap up the last two
wickets today in the face of an uninhibited onslaught by Rajasthan
No.9 DP Singh who ended up with 85 from 87 balls (14 fours and 2
sixes). Resuming at 128/8, the ninth wicket stand between Singh and
Anup Dave blossomed to yield 82 runs. Joshi, who went wicketless
yesterday, added the last two to his kitty to finish with match
figures of 8/126 as the visitors' innings terminated at 219.
Rajasthan stay at 3 points from 2 matches and go on to play Bengal at
Calcutta from Feb 24-27 while Karnataka, who also face the same
opponents at Calcutta in their next game from March 4-7, took their
tally to 8 points.
Full postNine wicket win for Saurashtra
Saurashtra ended Haryana's challenge shortly after lunch on the final day of their Super League tie at Rohtak today
19-Feb-2000
Saurashtra ended Haryana's challenge shortly after lunch on the final
day of their Super League tie at Rohtak today. But not before Rajesh
Puri had crafted a well deserved century. He remained unconquered on
114 (199 balls, 15 fours, 3 sixes). Puri, along with last man M
Sakhalkar, held up Saurashtra's victory charge with a stand of 68 in a
little over 18 overs that beefed up the total to 274. Firoz Bambhaniya
finally sent back Sakhalkar to produce figures of 5/54.
The target for Saurashtra was 94 and openers AA Merchant (41 not out)
and RC Vasanth Kumar (38) almost did it on their own with an 83 run
stand. The visitors reached 97/1 in the 18th over to post a nine
wicket victory and take home 8 points. Their next match is against
Orissa at Rajkot from Feb 24-27 while Haryana face off with Tamil Nadu
at Rohtak on the same dates.
Full postPresident's XI recover ground in final session
It was a moral victory for the Board President's XI as the South Africans were restricted to 293/6 at stumps on the first day of their three day game at the Brabourne stadium on Saturday
Anand Vasu
19-Feb-2000
It was a moral victory for the Board President's XI as the South
Africans were restricted to 293/6 at stumps on the first day of their
three day game at the Brabourne stadium on Saturday. Having lost very
few wickets in the first two sessions, a huge score looked likely if
they could keep their nerve after tea. They failed to do that and the
President's XI bowlers capitalised, striking hard in the day's final
session by taking four wickets.
When Hansie Cronje won the toss he immediately elected to bat
first. Having played a lot of limited overs cricket in the recent
past, the visitors were keen to get some solid match practice in the
longer form of the game.
Herschelle Gibbs and Gary Kirsten began sedately enough, but Debashish
Mohanty seemed keen to get the South Africans off to a good
start. Mohanty slipped the ball down the leg side to Kirsten with
regularity and was worked away easily for runs. Gibbs on the other
hand got almost nothing loose and was content biding his time at the
crease. It was not until the seventh over, that Gibbs got off the
mark, in fine style too, as he smashed an over pitched delivery
outside off stump past mid off. The ball raced to the fence and
signaled Gibbs' arrival at the crease. Gibbs was truly in good nick as
he followed up his off drive with a fluent cover drive off the very
next over. Once again the ball was right there in the slot and Gibbs
wasted no time in smashing it away.
Murali Kartik was introduced into the attack at the end of the 10th
over and began well. The youngster threw the ball up, got the ball to
turn away from the right hander and had Gibbs struggling in the very
first over. Gibbs became very circumspect after he played an
extravagant shot to a ball wide of the stumps and was beaten in the
flight and turn.
Full postWilliams ton keeps Baroda afloat
Baroda face an onerous task in the fight for first innings points in their Super League clash against Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi
18-Feb-2000
Baroda face an onerous task in the fight for first innings points in
their Super League clash against Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium
in Delhi. At stumps on the third day today Baroda were 265 runs adrift
of Railways' first innings total of 506, with seven wickets in hand.
Resuming at 448/6, Railways batted on for just over an hour in the
morning. Yere Goud's patient 681 minute vigil came to an end when he
was eighth out for 182 (488 balls, 15 fours). Valmik Buch, who took
four of the first five wickets to fall but went wicketless afterwards,
retained the best bowling figures for Baroda: a 64 over effort that
yielded 4/109.
In reply Baroda lost two early wickets but Connor Williams and HR
Jadhav then held the innings together with a fighting 199 run 3rd
wicket association which was prised open in the penultimate over of
the day when Williams was trapped leg before for 123 (250 balls, 14
fours). Baroda closed at 241/3 with Jadhav still there on 82 (167
balls, 6 fours, 1 six).
Full postKarnataka all set to complete last rites
Karnataka were just two wickets away from a crushing victory over Rajasthan at the end of the third day of their Super League game at Bangalore's RSI Ground today
18-Feb-2000
Karnataka were just two wickets away from a crushing victory over
Rajasthan at the end of the third day of their Super League game at
Bangalore's RSI Ground today. After an untypically swift Rahul Dravid
century had helped set Rajasthan a victory target of 359, the visitors
were tottering at 128/8 from 51 overs when stumps were drawn.
Resuming at 77/1, Beerala and Dravid advanced the score to 128 without
further mishap before the former was out for 59 (124 balls, 7
fours). Thilak Naidu arrived at the crease to add a further 115 in
Dravid's company. Naidu was out one short of his fifty but Dravid went
on to compile 149 off just 173 balls (16 fours, 1 six) before his
stumps were disturbed by Anup Dave. Kumble declared at the fall of A
Vijay's wicket at 326/6.
Rajasthan never looked like making a match of it and a dismal middle
order slump from 62/1 to 73/6 sealed their fate. Opener AS Jain top
scored with 32 as Srinath, Prasad and Kumble claimed two wickets each.
Full postHaryana staring defeat in the face
Saurashtra all but wrapped up their Super League tie against Haryana at Rohtak at the end of the third day today
18-Feb-2000
Saurashtra all but wrapped up their Super League tie against Haryana
at Rohtak at the end of the third day today. The home team just about
managed to avoid an innings defeat, being 25 runs ahead with a lone
second innings wicket standing.
It was a day on which Haryana lost 15 wickets. They never really
recovered from the one-two punch that off spinner Hitesh Parsana
delivered in his first two overs of the morning to send back overnight
batsmen Ajay Ratra and Rajesh Puri with just two runs added to the
board. Haryana went rapidly downhill to fold up for 224 as Parsana
(6/68) and part time spinner Sitanshu Kotak (3/14) cleaned up the
tail.
Following on 181 runs behind, Haryana continued to lose wickets at
regular intervals. Rajesh Puri mounted a lone rearguard action and was
undefeated on 77 (155 balls, 11 fours, 1 six). This time the wrecker
in chief was off spinner Firoz Bambhaniya who scalped 4/39. Stumps
were drawn at the fall of the 9th wicket (Feroze Ghyas) with the score
on 206.
Full postKalyani puts Bengal on top
Bengal managed to get the vital first innings lead in their Ranji Trophy Super League encounter against Delhi at the Eden Gardens on Friday
Sakyasen Mittra
18-Feb-2000
Bengal managed to get the vital first innings lead in their Ranji
Trophy Super League encounter against Delhi at the Eden Gardens on
Friday. On a day when overnight rain curtailed play by 104 minutes,
Bengal, riding on a solid 90 from Srikant Kalyani and useful
contributions from the middle order, declared at 374 for eight
wickets, 44 minutes after tea. Delhi were 30 for no loss when play was
called off. They need another 104 runs to avoid an innings defeat.
Bengal's strategy was quite simple on Friday. While Kalyani was to
hold one end up, the others could go for runs from the other. That is
exactly the way Saba Karim, Utpal Chatterjee, Wrichik Mazumdar and
Laxmi Ratan Shukla played. Karim blazed his way to 46 before hitting a
full toss from off spinner Virendra Shewag to cover. However, Bengal
had already managed to take the lead before his dismissal. He had
added 70 runs with Kalyani for the fifth wicket.
In walked Utpal Chatterjee and from the start, he was severe on his
counterpart Rahul Sanghvi in the Delhi side. Utpal got 24 in 35 balls
hitting Sanghvi for a six and a four in one over. Then Mazumdar got 34
in 46 balls. He hit Nikhil Chopra for a lovely six over long on and
added 59 runs for the seventh wicket in 58 minutes. Shukla who came in
next also was very aggresive against the second new ball taken after
95 overs. He hit Sanjay Gill over midwicket for a huge six before the
innings was declared after Kalyani's dismissal.
The former Maharashtra Ranji Trophy captain, who has settled down in
Bengal, once more showed why he is technically considered a very sound
batsman. He rotated the strike beautifully and despatched the loose
deliveries for boundaries. His 200 ball innings with six boundaries
did not really have any flaws. He perished simply because the skipper
asked him to go for runs. He tried to hit Gill out of the ground and
ended in skying it to Akash Malhotra in the covers.
Full postOrissa struggling to avoid defeat
Orissa were fighting a grim battle to avoid defeat against Uttar Pradesh in their Super League tie at Kanpur today
18-Feb-2000
Orissa were fighting a grim battle to avoid defeat against Uttar
Pradesh in their Super League tie at Kanpur today. At the end of the
third day they were still 117 behind, having already lost three second
innings wickets. Earlier UP were all out for 487 in 146.2 overs.
As expected, UP skipper Gyanendra Pandey completed his century in the
morning session. Having lost his overnight partner Rizwan Shamshad for
115 (with their partnership worth 229) , he found another able ally in
S Shukla with whom he put on 75 for the 5th wicket. Pandey was sixth
out for 163 (290 balls, 22 fours, 1 six). Orissa off spinner Sanjay
Satpathy toiled for 48.2 overs to finish with 6/147.
Shalabh Srivastava rocked Orissa by dismissing Mahapatra and Mullick
off successive balls in his 3rd over (and the 6th of the
innings). When SS Das followed soon, Orissa were down to 20/3. Sanjay
Raul and Rashmi Parida then pulled off a rescue act with an unbroken
109 run stand off 30.2 overs. At stumps Raul was on 51 (88 balls, 8
fours) and Parida on 54 (103 balls, 8 fours).
Full postLaxman, Pratap put Hyderabad in front
VVS Laxman and Vanka Pratap slammed centuries as Hyderabad took a 59 run first innings lead over Bihar, with two wickets remaining, on the third day of their Super League tie at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad today
18-Feb-2000
VVS Laxman and Vanka Pratap slammed centuries as Hyderabad took a 59
run first innings lead over Bihar, with two wickets remaining, on the
third day of their Super League tie at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in
Hyderabad today. The home team scored a round 300 runs during the day
to finish at 440/8.
In the morning Nandakishore added only eight runs to his overnight
score before he was dismissed for 82, with the first wicket stand
worth 164, but his partner Laxman went on to crack three figures (119
off 173 balls, 17 fours, 1 six). Pratap and all rounder Parth
Satwalekar then put on 119 for the 5th wicket. When the latter fell
for a 114 ball 73, the flood gates opened with four wickets falling
for 33 runs in the space of 21 balls as Hyderabad attempted to force
the pace towards the close of play. Pratap survived to remain unbeaten
on exactly 100 (218 balls, 7 fours, 2 sixes).
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