da betobet： Canara Bank won an intriguing encounter against Combined Districts byfour wickets in the Moin-ud-Dowla Cup at Hyderabad’s HMWS & SB groundtoday
Sankhya Krishnan05-Sep-2000Canara Bank won an intriguing encounter against Combined Districts byfour wickets in the Moin-ud-Dowla Cup at Hyderabad’s HMWS & SB groundtoday. After bundling out their rivals for 107, they were in for ashock losing their first six wickets for 18 before S Shiraguppi andSrinivas Murthy ferried them home with more than 11 overs to spare.A brilliant opening burst by Vishnu Varadhan had the bankmen reelingat 18/6 in the 11th over. K Sriram fell to the fourth ball of theinnings and Ben Johnson removed the other opener C Raghu. VijayBharadwaj, Sunil Joshi and G Balaji were all castled by the deadlyVaradhan and when GK Amit Kumar was run out soon after, Districts werescenting an unlikely victory. It was not to be as they squandered 21wides in the innings and allowed Shiraguppi (34) and Murthy (26) toadd an unbroken 90 for the seventh wicket in the space of 28.2 oversas Canara Bank sailed home. Vishnu Varadhan finished with figures of7-1-13-4.Earlier, the Districts team squandered away a good start and werebowled out for 107 in 45.4 overs. Openers Venu (27) and Naveen Reddy(18) put on 42 runs off 17 overs. One drop Papi Reddy scored 18 butnone of the remaining batsmen even got to double digits. The wicketswere shared by NC Aiyappa (2), Vijay Bharadwaj (2), Srinivasa Murthy(3) and C Raghu (3).