da premier bet： Significant contributions by opening batsman Rowland Barrington (71)and former Indian player Sunil Joshi (83) enabled Karnataka StateCricket Association to score 322 for seven off 99 overs at stumps onthe first day of their MRF Buchi Babu
Staff Reporter22-Jul-2009Significant contributions by opening batsman Rowland Barrington (71)and former Indian player Sunil Joshi (83) enabled Karnataka StateCricket Association to score 322 for seven off 99 overs at stumps onthe first day of their MRF Buchi Babu invitation cricket tournamentfirst round game against Tamil Nadu Cricket Association XI at the MAChidambaram stadium on Thursday.Winning the toss and electing to bat, KSCA XI lost Mithun Beerala (6)at 14. Shyam Ponappa (12) was second out at 42. Then commenced KSCA’srecovery. First, Barrington and former India player Vijay Bhardwaj(22) added 66 runs for the third wicket off 21.2 overs. Then DeepakChougule joined Barrington and the two shared a fourth wicket stand of32 runs off 10 overs before the opener was out. He faced 169 balls andhit six fours.Chougule and Joshi then added 56 runs for the fifth wicket off 9.3overs before the former was out for a patient 21. The recovery processwas maintained with Joshi and RC Shanbal figuring in a sixth wicketassociation of 73 runs off 22 overs before the former was out. Theleft handed Joshi, batting in his usual aggressive vein, faced just 92balls and hit 12 fours and three sixes.Skipper Anil Kumble joined Shanbal and the two completed KSCA’srecovery by adding 49 runs for the seventh wicket off 14.3 overs.Shortly before close, Kumble was out for 24 off 40 balls with twofours and a six. At stumps, Shanbal was batting on a watchful 43. Hehas so far faced 121 balls and hit four of them to the ropes. Keepinghim company is David Johnson (2). Off spinner Dhandapani was the pickamong the bowlers, picking up three for 97 off 28 overs.* ONGC and CAB involved in a close battleCricket Association of Bengal and Oil and Natural Gas Commissionshared the honours of the first day in the MRF Buchi Babu invitationcricket tournament first round tie played at the Sri RamachandraMedical College Ground in Chennai on Thursday. ONGC were bowled outfor 188 and at close of play, CAB found themselves in trouble losingtheir first five wickets in making 118 runs. The hero of the day’splay was the off spinner from Bengal, Saurasish Lahiri who took fivefor 57.ONGC won the toss and elected to bat. Opening batsman Gagan Khoda (1)failed, falling to Sib Sankar Paul. Sandeep Sharma made a patient 29before being caught behind off the bowling of Paul. InternationalVirender Sehwag struck half a dozen boundaries in scoring 26 runsbefore falling to the off spin of Lahiri. Rizwan Shamsad (30) and AmitSharma (32) were the only batsmen who got amongst the runs as Lahiriran through the batting line up picking up five wickets.The ONGC innings folded up at 188 in the 55th over when the lastbatsman Feroz Gayas (3) was bowled by Lahiri. While Lahiri was clearlythe bowling hero, he was well supported by Paul who had three for 36.ONGC hit back, reducing CAB to 36/3 in the 22nd over. Skipper RohanGavaskar and Ritesh Jaswal (22) put together a rescue act and added 63runs for the fourth wicket. Gavaskar played an attractive knock of 44off 64 balls, which included two sixes and three fours. He was caughtand bowled by off spinner Sarandeep Singh who finished the day with2/35 off nine overs. At close, Saikat Mukherjee (13) and Sanjib Sanyal(3) were at the crease.* Babloo Kumar and Aashish Kapoor spin HCA out for 256The spin duo of Babloo Kumar (6/68) and Aashish Kapoor (4/68) did allthe damage for MRF in their match against Hyderabad CricketAssociation, bowling them out for 256 in the MRF Buchi Babu invitationcricket tournament first round tie at the Southern Railway Stadium inChennai, on Thursday.HCA won the toss and elected to bat. Opening batsmen Aravind Shetty(33) and skipper Nandakishore (44) got their team off to a good startagainst some erratic bowling from T Kumaran and MR Shrinivas. Theexperienced off spin of Kapoor and Babloo Kumar, the young left-armspinner from Punjab, weaved a web around the HCA batsmen.HCA were reduced to 124/5 in the 44th over when Arjun Yadav (6) wascaught by Kapoor in the slips off the bowling of Kumar. MRF struck twomore quick blows to reduce HCA to 140/7 in 46 overs. MRF were on theascendancy as the two spinners kept applying the pressure from bothends.Ibrahim Khaleel and Shivaji Yadav struck brilliant half centuries torescue the HCA innings. The two batsmen put together 102 runs for theeighth wicket off 25 overs. Khaleel made 50 runs off 101 balls withthe help of a six and five boundaries. Yadav scored an explosive 56off 78 balls, which included seven hits past the ropes. The HCAinnings came to a close in the 75th over.MRF in their first innings were 65/2 off 20 overs at close of play.Aashish Kapoor (9) struck two boundaries and was caught by Noel Davidat covers off the bowling of Vishnuvardan. Skipper Sridharan Sriramscored 24 runs off 25 balls with the help of four boundaries beforebeing bowled by Shivaji Yadav. Tanveer Jabbar with a patient 9 off 64balls and Rajat Bhatia (23 off 26 balls) were at the crease whenstumps were drawn.