Barbados virtually moved into the Final Four of the Red Stripe Bowl on the strength of an impeccable performance from stand-in captain Sherwin Campbell and incisive fast bowling from Pedro Collins yesterday

Haydn Gill

03-Nov-1999

Wary that defeat against Trinidad and Tobago would have eliminated them, Barbados played like men on a mission in their final preliminary match and were emphatic winners by 101 runs.

A day before his 29th birthday, the commanding Campbell, leading Barbados in the absence of an injured Philo Wallace, completed his first ever century in a regional One-Day match in an imposing total of 291 for seven from their quota of 50 overs.

Nine out of ten times, such totals automatically guarantee victory, but Trinidad and Tobago approached their daunting target with bold aggression until Collins intervened.

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Punjab gain five points

Patiala: Punjab, by virtue of their 92 runs first innings lead, colleted two more points than Delhi in a drawn three day league match of the North Zone Cooch Behar Trophy at the Dhruv Pandove stadium here on Monday

Rakesh Sanghi

03-Nov-1999

On the final day of the match, Delhi resumed their innings at 164 for seven in reply to Punjab's first innings total of 369 and lost the remaining three wickets adding 103 runs. Delhi were all out for 277. Overnight batsman Puru singh (9*) could add only four runs to his individual score before he was run out at 170. Amit Suman joined Pradeep Chawla and the two added 71 runs for the 8th wicket. Chawala was then trapped in front of the wicket by Amit Uniyal at 241. He scored a brillant 68 runs with the help of five hits to the fence. He batted 250 minutes and faced 202 balls.

Amit Suman was the last man dismissed, bowled by Sanjay Dhull. Suman contributed 46 runs with the help of eight boundaries. He batted 163 minutes and faced 111 balls.

For Punjab Sanjay Dhull was the most successful bowler who took three wickets giving away 40 runs while Amit Uniyal and Vivek Mahajan captured two wickets each giving away 63 and 17 runs respectively.

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Adams help South Africa wrap up first Test

Bloemfontein: It was a typical response from the South African captain, Hansie Cronje, which neatly tied up the post-match conference and highlighted Paul Adams

Trevor Chesterfield

02-Nov-1999

Bloemfontein: It was a typical response from the South African captain, Hansie Cronje, which neatly tied up the post-match conference and highlighted Paul Adams? value as South Africa brushed aside Zimbabwe yesterday.

Victory by an innings and 13 runs is crushing enough but the way South Africa bowled in what turned out to be the final day of the first Test of the two-match series, supported Cronje?s comment that the man who was launched with the nickname ``Gogga'' four summers ago has improved his strike rate as well as his average.

No longer does his action cause mirth or an attitude problem in the crowd at South Africa venues and staid Bloemfontein and a sparsely inhabited Goodyear Park saw Adams? wrap up the Zimbabwe innings for four for 31. It may be short of his best, but as Cronje suggested ``Adams has a habit in wrapping up the end of an innings''.

The way Cronje looked at it was the way it happened: Adams came on after the fast men had done the work and the ball had gone soft and wrapped up the tail in the second innings. Not as much as a match-winning performance as say that of man of the match Jacques Kallis who picked up seven wickets in the match for 132 runs and softened up a few Zimbabwe batsmen as well.

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Disciplined batting gives Delhi lead

New Delhi, November 1: A disciplined showing by the batsmen helped Delhi to gain a 124-run first innings lead over Haryana on the second day of the North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here on Monday

Madhu Sanghi

02-Nov-1999

At draw of stumps, Delhi were 290 for three in reply to Haryana's first innings total of 166 with skipper Ajay Sharma (60) and Virender Sehwag (47) at the crease.

Resuming at 17 for no loss, Devender Sharma and Ashu Dani began the proceedings on a strokefel note. Both openers kept scoring without any difficulty and accumulated 95 runs in the pre-lunch session. None of the bowlers were effective. Devender Sharma (56) completed his half century off 140 balls with seven boundaries before he was bowled by Feroz Ghayas in the post-lunch session. He added 112 runs with Ashu Dani.

Vijay Dahiya joined Dani and they continued in the same vein Dani also completed his half century. Though Dahiya (20) did not stay long, he and Dani put on 50 runs for the second wicket. Dahiya was caught by wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra off Vineet Jain at 162.

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Dharmani hits unbeaten 202

Mohali, November 1: Pankaj Dharmani smashed an unbeaten 202 before Punjab declared their first innings at 533 for six one hour before tea to be sitting pretty at close of play on the second day of their second Ranji Trophy league match here on Monday

Rajesh Arora

02-Nov-1999

Punjab resumed at 334 for four. Dharmani who was unbeaten with 106 completed his double century. He was playing the 46th innings and his 35th match. This was his third double century. His unbeaten 202 came off 384 balls and consisted of 25 boundaries and a six. He was at the crease for 490 minutes. The other overnight batsman Sanjay Kumar missed his half century by three runs, being unlucky to be run out due to a mix up as Dharmani after calling a run sent him back. Sanjay scored 47 off 99 balls with the help of six hits to the fence. This pair added 103 runs for the fifth wicket off 173 balls.

At the fall of Sanjay's wicket, Sandeep Sharma joined Dharmani and played a attacking knock. He smashed the bowling to all parts of the ground. His 65 came off 85 balls and included six boundaries and a six off right arm medium pacer Javed. He was bowled while trying a big heave off the same bowler. Sandeep Sharma and Dharmani added 115 runs for sixth wicket off 202 balls.

Chasing a big total, Services started badly. Their first wicket fell at 23 when Narender Singh (14) was caught by R.P.Singh off Sandeep Sharma. Skipper Sanjay Verma (17) was the next to depart as he was caught at silly point by Mongia off Sandeep Sharma. Abu Eric(11) and Thomson (11) did not contribute much and threw away their wickets. Sandeep Sharma was the pick of the bowlers getting two wickets for 17 runs.

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Rajiv Nayyar stars for Himachal

Chamba: A fine unbeaten knock of 89 by skipper Rajiv Nayyar helped Himachal Pradesh to pile up 219 for three in reply to Jammu & Kashmir's first innings total of 249 on the second day of the North Zone Ranji trophy league match at the Police stadium

Vinod Saxena

02-Nov-1999

Nischal Gaur and Ajay Mannu began the proceedings for Himachal Pradesh on a good note before the latter was bowled by Surinder Singh for 18 with the total on 38. Then skipper Rajiv Nayyar joined Nischal Gaur and both played well to take the score to 185 with a second wicket partnership of 146 runs. Both these batsman scored centuries against Jammu Kashmir last year. Nischal Gaur was unfortunate when he was caught by Ranjeet Bali off Ashwani Gupta for 69. He was at the crease for 312 minutes, faced 227 balls and hit six boundaries.

Arun Verma joined Nayyar but he did not stay long and was brilliantly caught by Dhruv off Surinder Singh for 18 with the total at 217. At stumps Rajiv Nayyar was batting on 89 with the help of 11 hits to the fence and a huge six. He has so far stayed 299 minutes at the crease, facing 228 balls. Medium pacer Surinder Singh took two wickets for 67 runs.

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Innings victory for Haryana

Rohtak: November 1: Haryana thrashed Jammu & Kashmir by an innings and 112 runs in the North Zone Cooch Behar cricket match at the Vishwakarma stadium here on Monday

Anil Gulati

02-Nov-1999

Rohtak: November 1: Haryana thrashed Jammu & Kashmir by an innings and 112 runs in the North Zone Cooch Behar cricket match at the Vishwakarma stadium here on Monday.

The J & K second innings folded up for 86 within half an hour after resumption of the final day's play. Ankit Khajuria was the only batsman to reach double figures in the J & K innings. He scored 45 runs off 104 balls. For Haryana Sandeep Mor reaped a rich harvest of wickets. The youngster who had captured seven wickets in the first inninngs took five more in the second. Left arm spinner Deepak Sain took two wickets for nine runs.

The occasion of Haryana Day was made memorable by the breed of young cricketers who gained eight points. They now have 14 points from three matches. J & K have yet to earn a point after playing two matches this season.

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Jasvir Singh's knock in vain as Haryana struggles.

New Delhi, 31 October : A brave knock of unbeaten 81 runs by Jasvir Singh went in vain as Delhi speedsters Amit Bhandari (3 for 39) and Ashish Nehra ( 3 for 50) sent Haryana crashing to 166 all out in their first innings on the opening day of their

Madhu Sanghi

01-Nov-1999

Bowling out Haryana 37 minutes after tea, Delhi were 17 without loss at close with Devender Sharma (9) and Ashu Dani (6)at crease.

Haryana skipper Parender Sharma's decision to bat first after winning the toss proved disastrous as he saw his off-stump uprooted by Nehra with just eight runs on the board. Amit Bhandari removed the other opener, Jitender Singh (12) ,before Jasvir Singh began the fightback. He scored unbeaten 81 runs with the help of 12 boundaries and was remained at the crease for 272 minutes facing 179 balls. He did not find much support from other end as wickets were falling at regular intervals.

Amarjeet Kaypee (8) was second victim of Nehra as he clean bowled him at team total of 38. Two balls later, Nehra had Rajesh puri (0) caught by Akash Malhotra. Ajay Ratra (18) caught by wicket keeper Vijay Dahiya, built a brief partnership of 50 runs with Jasvir for the sixth wicket before he fell to Delhi skipper Ajay sharma. With the top order back in pavilion, off-spinner Rahul Sanghvi ( one for 29) and medium pacer Bhandari wiped off the tail.

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Ranjeet Bali anchors J & K innings

Chamba: Jammu & Kashmir managed to score a respectable total of 249 runs in their first innings again Himachal Pradesh which folded up eight minutes before the scheduled close on the opening day of their second Ranji Trophy four-day league match at

Vinod Saxena

01-Nov-1999

Opting to bat first, J & K lost their opener Rajesh Gill (2) in the second over of the innings, bowled by left arm pace bowler Parveen Sharma. Ranjeet Bali (80) and Kanvaljit Singh (38) added 117 runs for the second wicket before the latter snicked an incoming delivery from Panta to wicket keeper Arun Verma. He struck two hits to fence during his knock of 87 balls.

Ashwani Gupta (25) was also looking into touch but was run out while attempting a non existent single. Ranjeet Bali played a sheet anchor role. He stayed at crease for 176 minutes and faced 132 balls which included nine hits to fence and three huge sixes. He and Dhruv Mahajan (22) added 40 runs for the sixth wicket. Mahajan was then bowled by off spinner Nischal Gaur at 186. Ranjeet was also bowled by the bowler with only one run added to the total.

Towards the end, Sanjay Sharma (19*) and Pardeep Bali (11) showed some defiance before the J & K innings folded up for 249 runs in 88.4 overs, eight minutes before the scheduled close. Left arm spinner Jaswant Rai was the most successful bowler as he dismissed three batsmen for 64 runs off 22.4 overs. Nischal Gaur and Shakti Singh got two wickets each for 43 and 42 runs respectively.

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Dharmani slammed unbeaten ton.

Mohali, 31 October : Pankaj Dharmani (106*) scored a unbeaten century as Punjab piled up a big total of 334 for the loss of four wickets on the first day of their second Ranji trophy 4-day league match being played at Punjab Cricket Association

Rajesh Arora

01-Nov-1999

Vikram Rathore once again proved lucky with coin for Punjab and opted fotr batting on a batsmen friendly wicket. Rathore and Sodhi opened the innings and give their team a solid start as both added 66 runs before Rathore 47 was caught at first slip by Thapa off Javed while playing a casual shot out side the off stump. His knock of 52 balls was studded with six boundaries and one six. Reetinder Sodhi (32) was next to depart at team total of 91 in 19.3 overs. He unnecessarly jumped out to left arm spinner Pankaj Maitrey and was stumped by Sarabjeet Singh.

Pankaj Dharmani played a gallant knock of 106* as he hits Services bowlers at all part of the ground. He was lucky to be droped by Thapa at second slip off Syed Javed at his individual score of zero. After this he never looked back and take the Services bowlers on leathal hunt. He smashed 12 power packed hits to fence and a mighty six at long on. Amit Sharma(35) and Dharmani added 45 runs in 67 balls for third wicket. Amit was clean bowled by right arm leg spinner Kulkarni as he missed a juicy drive.

At the fall of third wicket seasoned compainer Dinesh Mongia joined Dharmani. Mongia was looking very confident from the first ball he faced. He too like his senior partner ride on Services bowlers and scored splendid 79 runs which included six boundaries and two sixes. This pair added 155 runs for the fourth wicket. Playing a two minded drive Mongia gave a simple caught to Thapa at slips of Maitrey.

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