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BCCI pitches committee satisfied with Green Park pitch : The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) pitch inspectors G Kasturirangan and Dhiraj Parsana, who visited the ground on Tuesday, are satisfied with the Green Park stadium pitch and
Natarajan Sriram
08-Nov-2000
BCCI pitches committee satisfied with Green Park pitch:
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) pitch inspectors G
Kasturirangan and Dhiraj Parsana, who visited the ground on Tuesday,
are satisfied with the Green Park stadium pitch and outfield at Kanpur
which will play host for the fourth one-day international between
India and Zimbabwe on December 11.
The two member BCCI pitches committee landed in Kanpur on Monday from
Cuttack where they had earlier inspected the Barabati Stadium. The
committee will be proceeding to other venues in Rajkot, Nagpur and
Delhi in the coming week.
The ongoing Ranji encounter at Hyderabad featuring the hosts and
Kerala, will go down in the history books as the 200th match for the
visitors. Moreover the match would also witness their skipper KN
Ananthapadmanabhan leading the side for the 25th match in the national
competition, the highest for any captain from the state.
Kerala, formerly known as the Travancore - Cochin team, entered the
fray during the 1950-51 season, under PM Raghavan's captaincy. They
played their first match against Mysore led by PR Shyamsundar. In
their 199 matches thus far Kerala have registered 24 victories and 117
losses. They have drawn four matches and two have been abandoned.
Ananthapadmanabhan, who made his debut against Hyderabad in the
1988-89 season, has captained the state side in 24 matches so far.
Under his leadership Kerala have registered seven wins and an equal
number of losses.
Kanitkar named skipper of Maharashtra for Ranji one-dayers
The joint secretary of the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA),
Anant Mate, said that former Indian all rounder Hrishikesh Kanitkar
will lead the State team in the West Zone Ranji Trophy one-day league
tournament to be played at Baroda from November 17.
Mate said that Maharashtra begin their campaign against Baroda in the
inaugural match on November 17. This year all the one-day matches will
be held at one venue (Baroda).
While announcing the Ranji team, Mate said that Dhiraj Jadhav will be
leading the under-22 side for the Navoroz Club Platinum Jubilee prize
money tournament to be held at Mumbai from November 13. Left-arm
seamer Sachin Nair will be his deputy.
The teams (for Ranji one-dayers): Hrishikesh Kanitkar (captain),
Abhijit Kale (vice captain), Niranjan Godbole, Hemant Kinikar, Jaideep
Narse, Kaushik Aphale, Iqbal Siddiqui, Sachin Aradhaye, Amol Ghag
(WK), Sagar Shah, Anirudha Oak, Amit Doshi, Sameer Shaikh, Rahul
Dhole-Patil.
(Under-22): Dhiraj Jadhav (captain), Sachin Nair (vice-captain),
Pankaj Phalke, Sagar Kulkarni, Kapil Laghate, Rizwan Anwar, Satyajit
Satbhai (WK), Nikhil Pande, Ranjit Kamtekar, Ranjit Khirid, Mrugank
Rathi, Shripad Bhagwat, Saeed Khot, Amit Misal, Pranav Inamdar.
Gujarat and Saurashtra Under-14 suffer loses
The Gujarat under-14 team suffered their second straight loss in two
days in the Bal Mahaddalkar Trophy West Zone League tournament at the
SP college ground on Tuesday. Meanwhile Maharashtra who defeated
Gujarat the day before, had a facile 55 run win over Saurashtra at the
Poona Club ground.
Set to score 175 for a win, Gujarat were reduced to 82 all out in 33
overs. The wrecker-in-chief being Sanket Chavan with figures of 5 for
28 in his 11.5 overs. In the morning, opting to bat Mumbai put up 174
for nine on the board, thanks to a fine 73 by opener Sagar Pawar.
In the other match, Maharashtra had an easy outing against Saurashtra.
Put into bat, Maharashtra scored 160 for 8 in their 40 overs. Nikhil
Paradkar (45) was the topscorer for Maharashtra. In response,
Saurashtra fell short by 55 runs. Only three batsmen Cheteshwar Pujar
(25), Pushparaj Parmar (22) and Pratik Patel (12) managed to reach
double figures.