Virender Shewag enthralls with unbeaten 162
North Zone leads the Duleep Trophy table with ten points from two matches, thanks largely to the batting heroics of Virender Shewag on Sunday in their match against West Zone at the Punjab CA Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Staff Reporter
14-Jan-2001
North Zone leads the Duleep Trophy table with ten points from two
matches, thanks largely to the batting heroics of Virender Shewag on
Sunday in their match against West Zone at the Punjab CA Stadium,
Mohali, Chandigarh.
As the best part of the match was ruined by heavy fog, North were
chasing the West score of 284 for the all important first innings
lead. Resuming at 217/5 with Shewag and Pankaj Dharmani at the crease,
the North innings got off a troubled start when Iqbal Siddiqui had
Dharmani trapped in front on his overnight score of 28. North were
reduced to 233/6 leaving the match even stevens. Shewag along with
Sharandeep Singh put on 48 runs for the seventh wicket as Singh was
dismissed for 17. At 281/7 came in Gagandeep Singh and before he was
dismissed for three at 285, North had gained the first innings lead.
Both the batsmen were claimed by SR Saxena.
Ashish Nehra was the next to go LBW to Bahatule for a duck at 292. The
last batsman Surendra Singh hit three boundaries in his innings of 15
before being dismissed by Siddiqui. The North innings came to an end
at 331, leaving Shewag with an unbeaten 162 off 190 balls. One six and
twenty-four boundaries flowed from his bat in his four hours and fifty
minutes stay at the wicket. Siddiqui was the best of the bowlers with
31-4-116-5.
West were 50/1 at the close of the match in their second innings.
Wasim Jaffer remained unbeaten on 29 with NK Patel on 11. West Zone
collected three points from the match and have an aggregate of six
points from two games.