Balaji bowls Jolly Rovers into quarterfinals
Jolly Rovers took only three overs on Sunday morning to wrap up their MRF Buchi Babu invitation cricket tournament first round tie against Indian Airlines by an innings and 108 runs at the IIT-Chemplast ground
Staff Reporter
19-Aug-2001
Jolly Rovers took only three overs on Sunday morning to wrap up their
MRF Buchi Babu invitation cricket tournament first round tie against
Indian Airlines by an innings and 108 runs at the IIT-Chemplast
ground.
Airlines, 264 runs in arrears on the first innings and 148 for five in
36 overs in their second innings overnight, were facing defeat. But
few would have imagined that the proceedings on the final day would
last just three overs. Medium pacer L Balaji, in excellent form of
late, brought the innings to a swift end by picking up four wickets,
three of them in one over to end the match. He had Vijay Dahiya leg
before for eight. And in the following over, he bowled Sagamdeep Singh
with the first ball, bowled Vineeth Jain with the fourth ball and had
Sonu Sharma caught by J Harish to terminate the Airlines second
innings at 156 after 39 overs. Balaji, who took six for 34 in the
first innings had six for 35 the second time around giving him match
figures of 12 for 69. Off spinner R Ramkumar who dismissed J Arun
Kumar for 45 on the final morning, took three for 46.
In the three day quarterfinals, which commence on Monday, Jolly Rovers
meet All India Associate Banks at IIT Chemplast ground. The other
pairings are: National Cricket Academy vs Indian Railways (CPT-IP),
MRF vs New Zealand A (MA Chidambaram stadium) and Cricket Association
of Bengal vs Karnataka State Cricket Association (Guru Nanak college
grounds).