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Andhra beat Goa by 4 wickets
Andhra clinched victory by four wickets on the fourth and final day of their encounter with Goa at the Ukku Stadium in Vishakapatnam
28-Nov-1999
Andhra clinched victory by four wickets on the fourth and final
day of their encounter with Goa at the Ukku Stadium in
Vishakapatnam. A spectacular collapse by the Goans saw them slump
from 158 for 3 to 193 all out. The last 7 wickets yielded just 35
runs and could not stand up in the face of some good bowling from
YS Ranganath and N Madhukar. At the end of the innings Madhukar
had 4/44 while Ranganath ended up with 4/61.
The Andhra team responded well to the small target of 157 and got
there for the loss of 6 wickets. A good knock of 52 not out by opener
LN Reddy ensured that the home team overhauled the target. IG Srinivas
(40) and YS Ranganath (24*) also supported Reddy well. The Andhra side
deserved to win against a Goa team that really lacked depth in both
the bowling and batting departments.
Full postIndia A draw with Guyana
Not unexpectedly, the three day match between India A and Guyana ended in a tame draw at Georgetown on Saturday
28-Nov-1999
Not unexpectedly, the three day match between India A and Guyana ended
in a tame draw at Georgetown on Saturday. But Guyana's Azeemul Haniff
and India A's J Arun Kumar helped themselves to hundreds on the final
day of the game.
Resuming at 197 for four, India A declared at 324 for nine. Opener
Arun Kumar was the first player on the visiting side to get a hundred
on the month long tour. He got it in style by hitting a six off leg
spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo. But Nagamootoo had the final say by
dismisisng Arun Kumar for 110. Arun Kumar batted almost six hours,
faced 273 balls and hit 14 fours and a six.
Guyana, who had made 222 in the first innings, hit 193 for one in
their second innings when stumps were finally drawn. Azeemul Haniff,
who had scored 62 in the first innings, scored an unbeaten 102. He
batted 162 minutes, faced 119 balls and hit 13 fours and a six. He
reached his hundred with a boundary off the last ball of the
match. Ramnaresh Sarwan scored an unbeaten 56 with seven fours and a
six.
India A will play West Indies A in their second four day `Test' in
Guyana from Tuesday.
Full postQueensland poised for victory over India
Queensland will need to score just 81 runs on Monday morning to give India a first-up loss to start their Australian tour
Rick Eyre
28-Nov-1999
Queensland will need to score just 81 runs on Monday morning to give India a
first-up loss to start their Australian tour. Trailing by 124 runs on the
first innings, India were dismissed for 204 in their second innings on
stumps at day three Sunday at The Gabba, Brisbane.
Queensland, resuming at their overnight score of 7/363, lasted twelve overs
on Sunday morning before being dismissed for 401. T Kumaran took two of the
three wickets to fall this morning to finish with 5/67. Though this is his
first first-class appearance in Australia, it is not his first time in this
country, having recently done a stint with the Australian Cricket Academy
which included accompanying the Academy on their New Zealand tour.
Devang Gandhi (13) registered his second failure of the match when he
snicked Andy Bichel to the waiting gloves of Wade Seccombe. Ramesh fell for
an identical score when caught by Stuart Law to become Scott Muller's first
wicket of the innings.
VVS Laxman picked up from where he left off in his first innings 113,
playing the senior role in an 85-run partnership with Rahul Dravid. Laxman
and Dravid shared the spoils in plundering Bichel for fifteen runs in one
over, and Laxman's 50 came up in 74 deliveries.
Full postHyderabad set to close out match tomorrow
Hyderabad's spin twins, Kanwaljit Singh and Venkatapathy Raju, spun rings around the Kerala batsmen at the REC Ground in Kozhikode today to put their side within sniffing distance of victory
27-Nov-1999
Hyderabad's spin twins, Kanwaljit Singh and Venkatapathy Raju, spun rings around the Kerala batsmen at the REC Ground in Kozhikode today to put their side within sniffing distance of victory. Kanwaljit took 5-63, for a match haul of 11-154, as Kerala's challenge was snuffed out for 179 in their second innings. Raju was the perfect foil as he cleaned up the tail, taking 4 of the last 5 wickets to fall to finish with 4-77. His match haul was 7-179. Hyderabad, chasing 124 for victory, were 51-1 at close with Nandakishore and Vinay Kumar on 15 each.
Resuming on Day 3 at 250-8, Hyderabad were all out for 303. The 9th wicket stand between Vanka Pratap (56) and NP Singh (59) which began at 211 and progressed beyond Kerala's 1st innings 247 was finally terminated at 286. Sreekumar Nair (3-56) took both the wickets to fall today. Kerala were all out in the 62nd over after a disastrous middle order collapse from 82-2 had seen them lose 6 wickets in 7.1 overs for the addition of 20 runs. M Suresh Kumar, batting at No. 9, was last out after making 61 in 59 balls with 9 4's and a six.
Full postIndian domestic: Hyderabad complete a quick demolition job
Hyderabad needed less than 10 overs to wrap up their South Zone Ranji Trophy league tie against Kerala by nine wickets at the REC Ground in Kozhikode today
27-Nov-1999
Hyderabad needed less than 10 overs to wrap up their South Zone Ranji Trophy league tie against Kerala by nine wickets at the REC Ground in Kozhikode today. With this win they move to the top of the zonal points table with 21 points from three matches.
Last evening Hyderabad had already lopped off 51 runs from their victory target of 124, for the loss of one wicket. The overnight batsmen, Nandakishore and Vinay Kumar stepped on the accelerator today to wallop 76 from just 56 balls to terminate the match, extending their unbroken stand to 103.
Yesterday Kanwaljit Singh became the highest wicket taker for Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy in the course of his spell of 5-63 in Kerala's second innings. He now has 269 wickets in 88 matches, ahead of Arshad Ayub's 266 in 68.
Full postIndian domestic: Andhra take first innings lead
Andhra slumped to 250 all out after ending the second day on 217 for 4
27-Nov-1999
Andhra slumped to 250 all out after ending the second day on 217
for 4. Nitin Kalekar ripped through the middle order, picking up
4 crucial wickets. Though they slumped to 250, they had already
secured a first innings lead and that may prove crucial in the
end.
In response, the Goa team could not do much better. PJ
Rodrigues and Milind Chavan opened the batting and began
steadily. However, Chavan fell first, when he was bowled by
Shahabuddin after he had made 18 runs. Rodrigues went on to make
68, but was run out.
After the openers were dismissed Vivek Kolambkar made 34 but could not
go on to make a big score. At the end of the day Sachin Uphadhye and
Rajesh Naik were at the crease. With the score on 158 for 3 and just one
day to go, it is unlikely that the Goans could force a result in this
match. If they don't' win the match outright, the initiative will be with
the Andhra team who managed to secure the first innings lead.
Full postHonours even on opening day
Rajasthan were 273-9 at stumps on Day 1 of their league match against Uttar Pradesh at the Sports Stadium in Meerut today
27-Nov-1999
Rajasthan were 273-9 at stumps on Day 1 of their league match against Uttar Pradesh at the Sports Stadium in Meerut today. After Rajasthan were put in to bat, opener Anshu Jain held the innings together with a fighting 90 (163 balls, 12 fours). He was involved in a 4th wicket stand of 96 with captain PK Krishnakumar (56). But Rajasthan failed to consolidate thereafter and following Jain's departure at 175, 3 more wickets tumbled for 13 runs. It was left to Sanjeev Sharma to shore up the latter part of the innings with a timely undefeated 68. Musi Raza and Pankaj Tiwari did most of the damage for UP, taking 4-71 and 3-80 respectively.
Full postIndian bowling limitations exposed
India's bowling limitations were exposed at the first opportunity on the second day of their opening tour match against Queensland at Brisbane on Saturday
Partab Ramchand
27-Nov-1999
India's bowling limitations were exposed at the first opportunity
on the second day of their opening tour match against Queensland
at Brisbane on Saturday. Scoring at a brisk rate of well over
four runs an over, the home team rattled up 363 for seven wickets
off 87 overs at stumps, gaining a lead of 86 runs.
The biggest disappointment was Anil Kumble who finished the day
with the unenviable bowling figures of 26-0-121-0. It was left
to new boy T Kumaran, a surprise selection for the tour, to
check Queensland after ML Love and Andrew Symonds had put them in
a position of considerable strength with a fourth wicket stand of
204 runs off 40 overs. Both got hundreds, Love scoring 120 and
Sydmonds 161.
The Indians got the encouragement of an early wicket when Maher
(10) was leg before to Mohanty at 30 in the tenth over. However
Hayden and Love then added 61 runs for the second wicket from 18
overs before the former was caught by Dravid off Venkatesh Prasad.
Hayden's 44 was compiled off 77 balls and he hit six fours and
a six.
Skipper Stuart Law had the mortification of being run out by
Kumble without facing a single ball and Queensland at this
stage were 91 for three in the 29th over. But then Love and
Symonds got entrenched without much difficulty. Soon they were
doing pretty much what they liked with the bowling, being
particularly severe on Kumble. It was Kumaran who finally broke
the stand when he had Love caught by Venkatesh Prasad. Love
faced 174 balls during his four hour stay at the crease hitting
10 fours.
Full postTrials and tribulations continue
Perth, Nov 26: The trials and tribulations of Pakistan's batting have continued unabated
A. Jalil
27-Nov-1999
Perth, Nov 26: The trials and tribulations of Pakistan's batting
have continued unabated. Their ineptitude surfaced
disconcertingly in the final Test of the series. It is a match
that Pakistan would be aiming to win, not because the result
would influence the outcome of the series but simply because it
would be a face-saving victory.
Having so timidly allowed Australia to snatch victory from the
jaws of defeat in Hobart earlier in the week, it is now
Pakistan's opportunity to redeem themselves. This would obviously
be their intention but their batting, however, gave little
impression of what they had in mind.
Certainly no blame for Pakistan's paltry total of 155 can be
attributed to the Western Australia Cricket Association pitch.
Unlike the typical strip here at Perth, which has a fairly green
top, this was supposed to have been prepared for runs. The sight
of a hard, brown pitch indicated that this may be the best
batting surface on this ground for several seasons.
It made batting practically imperative on winning the toss and it
came as no surprise that Wasim Akram decided to make first use of
it. Indeed, the Australia captain Steve Waugh said at the end of
the day's play that had he won the toss he was going to bat.
Full postSymonds and Love plunder Indian bowling
India are on the ropes after the second day of their four-day match against Queensland after Andrew Symonds and Martin Love each plundered centuries in a 200-plus partnership smashed at more than five an over
Rick Eyre
27-Nov-1999
India are on the ropes after the second day of their four-day match against Queensland after Andrew Symonds and Martin Love each plundered centuries in a 200-plus partnership smashed at more than five an over.
At the end of day two at The Gabba in Brisbane, Queensland are 7/363, a first-innings lead of 86.
India's first innings came to end on the third ball of the day Saturday. Resuming on 9/273, Kumaran smashed a boundary from Adam Dale's first delivery, and was dismissed two balls later, caught at third slip by Geoff Foley, for the Queensland swing bowler's only wicket of the innings. After an economical opening spell by Mohanty and Prasad, Matthew Hayden started to cut loose before Jimmy Maher (10) was trapped lbw by Orissa paceman Mohanty.
Kumaran replaced Mohanty and put a cap on the runrate, with Martin Love replacing Maher. Hayden, one of the enigmas of Australian cricket in the nineties, pulled Prasad forward of short leg for the first six of the match. Hayden had reached 44 when he edged Prasad to the waiting hands of Rahul Dravid, his innings generating six fours and a six.
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