West setup title clash with North Zone for Vizzy Trophy
West Zone made their way into the Vizzy Trophy Inter-Zonal University tournament final by virtue of the massive 271 run first innings lead over South Zone in their semi final match at the DY Patil Sports Academy ground in Nerul on Tuesday
Staff Reporter
07-Feb-2001
West Zone made their way into the Vizzy Trophy Inter-Zonal University
tournament final by virtue of the massive 271 run first innings lead
over South Zone in their semi final match at the DY Patil Sports
Academy ground in Nerul on Tuesday.
Opting to bat first West Zone amassed 442 runs with B Tomar scoring an
unbeaten 201. He was ably supported by G Patel (85) and S Panikar
(30). Ram kumar was the most successful bowler for South Zone with
figures of 5 for 120. South Zone were never really in the race to take
the first innings lead and collapsed for 171. Opener SA Pai (64) was
the top scorer. R Prakash (3 for 25) and R Bamb (3 for 35) were the
successful bowlers for West Zone.
West Zone in their second innings batted out the whole of the final
day to end with the score at 178 for 8. G Patel (71) was the top
scorer with useful contributions from the middle order batsmen.