da doce： West Zone comfortably batted through the final day, stalling SouthZone’s hopes of forcing an outright result in their Duleep Trophyclash at the Lalbhai Contractor Stadium in Surat on Sunday
Staff Reporter21-Jan-2001West Zone comfortably batted through the final day, stalling SouthZone’s hopes of forcing an outright result in their Duleep Trophyclash at the Lalbhai Contractor Stadium in Surat on Sunday. NayanMongia, Vinod Kambli and Abhijit Kale all posted half centuries asWest finished their second innings at 330/6. South’s first inningslead of 219 gave them five points, taking their tally to eight fromtwo games, while West moved to nine from three games.West entered the final day at 64/1, needing another 155 to make Southbat again. In the course of an obdurate 60 off 187 balls, skipperMongia, who opened the innings, was involved in four successive fiftypartnerships, three of them on the final day. He added 50 for thesecond wicket with Hrishikesh Kanitkar, 54 for the third with JacobMartin and 53 for the fourth with Kambli. The latter was his usualbludgeoning self in carting 66 (65 balls, 11 fours, 2 sixes).Kale, for his part, made an enterprising 52 off 55 balls, inclusive ofnine boundaries. Wasim Jaffer and Sairaj Bahutule carried Norththrough to stumps. Of the eight South bowlers used, Sunil Joshiproduced the best figures of 3/62. South take on East next fromJanuary 25-28 at Agartala while West also square off against the sameopponents in their next and final encounter, at Rajkot from February1-4.