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Dave, Dalpat show defiance
Udaipur: Rajasthan were all out for 179 about thirty minutes before close of play on the opening day of their Central Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh here on Sunday
OP Sharma
24-Oct-1999
Udaipur: Rajasthan were all out for 179 about thirty minutes before close of play on the opening day of their Central Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh here on Sunday. At stumps, UP were 22 for one.
Rajasthan captain Anup Dave won the toss and elected to bat. But they lost wickets at regular intervals and were badly placed at 93 for seven. Only opener Dalpat Singh (58) showed some defiance. Anup Dave and Kishen then added 69 runs for the eighth wicket. It took the second new ball taken at 171 for eight to bring the innings to a quick end. Dave's 50 came up off 98 balls with seven fours. Dalpat's 50 came up off 143 balls with nine fours.
Full postHaryana defeat J & K by eight wickets
Faridabad: Fine batting by Jatinder Singh (81*) and Rajesh Puri (47) enabled Haryana to beat Jammu and Kashmir team by eight wickets in the North Zone Ranji Trophy one day league cricket match played at Nahar Singh stadium here on Sunday
Madhu Sanghi
23-Oct-1999
Faridabad: Fine batting by Jatinder Singh (81*) and
Rajesh Puri (47) enabled Haryana to beat Jammu and Kashmir team by eight wickets in the North Zone Ranji Trophy one day league cricket match played at Nahar Singh stadium here on Sunday.
The match was delayed by half an hour due to overnight dew. Hence
the umpires decided to have 48 overs a side match.
Parender Sharma won the toss for Haryana and asked J & K to bat first.
Ajay Bhatti (3) was out cheaply off the bowling of Vineet Jain with the
total at 11. Ranjeet Bali (19) and Kanwaljeet (42) took the score to 52 when Bali gave a return catch to Parender Sharma. Then Ashwani Gupta and Kanwaljeet added 57 runs for the third wicket. Once this partnership was broken due to the run out dismissal of Gupta (33) J & K batsmen fumbled and the side were all out for 178 runs in 46.4 overs due to a tight bowling spell by Manish Sakhalkar who captured four wickets at the cost of 32 runs.
In the face of a modest target, Jatinder Singh played a brillant
knock of 81 out out with the help of five boundaries. He played his
shots with utmost elegance and was ably supported by Rajesh Puri who scored a brisk 47. Haryana lost only two wickets both of which were taken by Sanjay Sharma.
Full postDelhi win by 7 wickets
New Delhi: Rahul Sanghvi's five wicket haul led Delhi to an impressive seven wicket victory over Services in the first tie of the North Zone Ranji Trophy one day league at the Harbaksh Singh stadium here on Saturday
Madhu Sanghi
23-Oct-1999
New Delhi: Rahul Sanghvi's five wicket haul led Delhi to an
impressive seven wicket victory over Services in the first tie
of the North Zone Ranji Trophy one day league at the Harbaksh Singh
stadium here on Saturday.
Sanghvi (5 for 16) and skipper Ajay Sharma (3 for 22) enabled
Delhi to dismiss Services for 114 runs in 46.4 overs. Chasing the easy
target Delhi made the required runs in 23.3 overs losing just
three wickets.
Services started coutiously with their openers putting on 55 runs
before Sarabjeet Singh (15) became the first victim of Sanghvi. The
other opener Narender Singh (29) followed by giving a simple catch to Nikhil Chopra at slip off Sanghvi. The other victims of Sanghvi were Abu Eric (11), C.D. Thomson (0) and M.V.Rao (6).
Delhi began the run chase disastarously by losing Ashu Dani (9) with
just 18 runs on the board. Sohail Rauf (22) joined Vijay Dahiya (22) to
steady the innings and added 45 runs for second wicket before Dahiya was caught by Sanjay Verma off Sudhakar Ghag. Then Jadev raised Services' hopes by dismissing Rauf in the next over with an inswinger. But Ajay Sharma and Mithun Minhas played with a cool head to stear Delhi home. Minhas with four boundaries remained unbeaten on 28 while Sharma chipped with an unbeaten 27.
Full postInnings win for Punjab
Patiala: Hosts Punjab did not face any problem in decimating Jammu & Kashmir by an innings and 117 runs in their Cooch Behar trophy tie here on Thursday
Madhu Sanghi
22-Oct-1999
Patiala: Hosts Punjab did not face any problem in decimating Jammu & Kashmir by an innings and 117 runs in their Cooch Behar trophy tie here on Thursday. After putting up a timid and uninspired display on the opening day, J & K were expected to cast aside their weariness and
disappointment of yesterday's play. On the contrary they came up
with yet another pathetic show from their batsmen.
Resuming at their overnight first innings total of 15 for 5,
the J & K tail wagged merrily to enable the team to cross the three figure mark. Following on, the Punjab bowlers again put them on a tight leash and bundled them for just 155 runs in the second innings giving themselves a morale boosting win.
For long, J & K have come to be known as the "whipping
boys" in the North Zone cricket in all grades - be it the Ranji Trophy, Cooch Behar or even the Vijay Merchant Trophy and with their performance in this match the tag remains intact. So disastrous was the display of the visitors that thet were beaten outright before tea on the second day of the thee-day match.
For Punjab Gagandeep Singh and Amit Uniyal took four wickets each giving away 22 and 33 runs respectively in the first innings while Sanjay Dhull captured five wickets at the cost of 51 runs and Sandeep Sanwal got three wickets for 53 runs. With today's win, the hosts have garnered the maximum of eight points.
Full postPothas once again stakes a claim
As the Eastern Province openers had done on day one, Adam Bacher and Swen Koenig struggled through the early morning session, but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over
Keith Lane
22-Oct-1999
As the Eastern Province openers had done on day one, Adam Bacher and Swen Koenig struggled through the early morning session, but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over. Some of the boundaries coming from edges and miss-timed drives.
Bacher (34) was first to go with the score on 47, stretching on the drive to Meyrick Pringle and being caught in the covers. Koenig (18) followed with the score on 68 being trapped on the back foot by Dave Callaghan.
This brought Ken Rutherford and Daryll Cullinan together. Cullinan taking 13 balls to get off the mark grew in confidence, while Rutherford found the middle of the bat from ball one. Together they saw the score past Eastern Province's 99 going to lunch at 139/2.
After lunch they accelerated the score along with some fine positive batting, and an exhibition of batting that the small crowd will treasure for a few years. Pulling, hooking, driving and cutting the ball to all areas of the Wanderers ground. By the time tea came Gauteng had progress to 319/4 losing Rutherford (100) and Crookes to Hayward. 180 runs had been scored in the session.
Full postPothas stakes another claim
As the Eastern Province openers had done on day one, Adam Bacher and Swen Koenig struggled through the early morning session, but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over
Keith Lane
22-Oct-1999
As the Eastern Province openers had done on day one, Adam Bacher and Swen Koenig struggled through the early morning session, but managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over. Some of the boundaries coming from edges and miss-timed drives.
Bacher (34) was first to go with the score on 47, stretching on the drive to Meyrick Pringle and being caught in the covers. Koenig (18) followed with the score on 68 being trapped on the back foot by Dave Callaghan.
This brought Ken Rutherford and Daryll Cullinan together. Cullinan taking 13 balls to get off the mark grew in confidence, while Rutherford found the middle of the bat from ball one. Together they saw the score past Eastern Province's 99 going to lunch at 139/2.
After lunch they accelerated the score along with some fine positive batting, and an exhibition of batting that the small crowd will treasure for a few years. Pulling, hooking, driving and cutting the ball to all areas of the Wanderers ground. By the time tea came Gauteng had progress to 319/4 losing Rutherford (100) and Crookes to Hayward. 180 runs had been scored in the session.
Full postJ & K in deep trouble
Patiala: Jammu and Kashmir were in deep trouble at 15 for 5 at draw of stumps against Punjab on the first day of their first league encounter of the North Zone Cooch Behar (under-19) cricket tournament , at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium here on Wednesday
Madhu Sanghi
21-Oct-1999
Patiala: Jammu and Kashmir were in deep trouble at 15 for 5 at draw of stumps against Punjab on the first day of their first league encounter of the North Zone Cooch Behar (under-19) cricket tournament , at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium here on Wednesday.
Earlier, batting first, Punjab virtually massacred the J & K bowling attack by piling up a massive 375 for three in their first essay. The architects of the formidable batting display were openers Munish Sharma (173, 314 mts, 257 balls, 14 fours & 4 sixes) and Ravneet Rickey (109, 190 mts, 168 balls, 13 fours) before skipper Yuvraj Singh put an end to the misery of the J & K bowlers by declaring the moment Munish Sharma was stumped going for a lofted shot.
While Ravneet Rickey was more resilient in his approach, the other opener Munish Sharma displayed shades of flamboyance to play an impressive innings. Even as Ravneet Rickey, after putting on 195 run for the first wicket stand, looked all set to farm the bowlers, he was out to a poor shot, trying to flick a ball pitched far away from the leg stump. The ball, after ricocheting off Rickey's left pad, clipped the leg bail to end a superb innings.
At the end of a hard and long days play, the only J & K bowler who commanded some respect was off-spinner Sohail Songhoi who kept on experimenting, despite the bltitzkrieg launched by the hosts batsmen, to finish with 2 for 63.
Full postWindies hit a new low Sharjah
Outclassed by superior opponents, the West Indies were again thrashed by Pakistan and predictably eliminated from the Coca-Cola Champions' Trophy here last night
21-Oct-1999
Outclassed by superior opponents, the West Indies were again thrashed by Pakistan and predictably eliminated from the Coca-Cola Champions' Trophy here last night.
Their defeat, by 138 runs with 18.3 of their 50 overs unutilised, accurately reflected the difference between the teams in talent, maturity and all-round depth.
It entered the record books as their heaviest in One-Day Internationals, erasing the run-margin of 130 runs in their first match of the tournament last Thursday.
It also emphasised the psychological advantage the Pakistanis had established by comfortably winning the previous five matches between the two: one in the World Cup in May, three in Toronto last month and the first in the preliminary round here .
Full postAustralia set Zimbabwe 304 for victory
With a weak bowling line-up, Zimbabwe decided their best option was to field on winning the toss
John Ward
21-Oct-1999
With a weak bowling line-up, Zimbabwe decided their best option was to field on winning the toss.
Heath Streak, for so long the backbone of the attack, was unfit with a strained knee after his exertions in the Harare Test; John Rennie split the webbing in his hand; Bryan Strang is considered too slow and predictable for one-day matches, while Henry Olonga is considered too fast and unpredictable. Had Olonga shown any sort of form in Harare, though, he might have been included as the only bowler with the ability to cut through the opposition.
The bowling was opened by David Mutendera and Gary Brent, both with only a handful of one-day matches behind them; first change was the similarly inexperienced Andy Blignaut. It took six balls for Australia to open their account, Mark Waugh driving a four through the covers. In Brent's first over Adam Gilchrist got under way, slashing a boundary to third man, and then Waugh drove Mutendera for four through extra cover.
In the fifth over the openers decided the time was ripe to get the ones and twos ticking over, and the score began to mount steadily. A brilliant save by Andrew Whittall in the covers prevented anther boundary from Waugh. The score reached 39 in the seventh over when Mutendera took his first wicket in his third one-day international, when Gilchrist slashed a short ball wide of Grant Flower at backward point, only for the fielder to dive to his left and hold a brilliant low catch.
Full postRain, bad light and the toss help Gauteng
Johannesburg - Eastern Province, after being beaten by the rain last weekend, have only themselves to blame for the position they find themselves in at the end of day one in their SuperSport Series match against Gauteng at The Wanderers Stadium
Keith Lane
21-Oct-1999
Johannesburg - Eastern Province, after being beaten by the rain last weekend, have only themselves to blame for the position they find themselves in at the end of day one in their SuperSport Series match against Gauteng at The Wanderers Stadium.
Winning the toss on an overcast morning with rain about and a pitch that had a slight green tinge to it, the battle seemed to be half won, but for some inexplicable reason captain Mark Rushmere decided to bat first.
Having lost nine overs to rain in the morning session Eastern Province battled through with only 12 runs coming from the first 16 overs of play and David Terbrugge and Andrew Hall holding the upper hand. Terbrugge used the conditions especially well moving the ball away from, and into the batsmen.
Walter Masimula, in only his forth first class match, initiated the breakthrough soon after lunch finishing the day with 4/35. It was however Andrew Hall who wrapped up the Eastern Province innings with 5/20. Both bowlers recording their best first class bowling figures.
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