da pinup bet： North Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK NayuduTrophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the IIT Chemplastground in Chennai on Tuesday defeating Central Zone by 26 runs
Partab Ramchand28-Dec-1999North Zone scored their second successive victory in the CK NayuduTrophy inter-zonal (under-19) cricket tournament at the IIT Chemplastground in Chennai on Tuesday defeating Central Zone by 26 runs.The match saw a keen contest between bat and ball. Put in to bat,North Zone made a poor start losing three wickets for 53 runs. ButYuvraj Singh and G Gambhir turned the innings around with a fourthwicket partnership of 133 runs that lasted 24 overs. Gambhir was thenout for 53, struck off 64 balls. Yuvraj who had dominated the standwas out in the next over at 201 for a splendid 96. He faced only 94balls and hit nine fours. An unbeaten sixth wicket partnership of 52runs in nine overs between A Ratra (22) and SP Singh (29) helped Northto post a challenging total of 253 for five in 50 overs.Central’s openers AV Deshpande and A Kapoor gave their team anexcellent start putting on 135 runs off 31.2 overs. Kapoor was thenout for 59 off 101 balls with three fours. Thereafter however Centrallost wickets at regular intervals and they were all out for 227 in48.3 overs. Deshpande who was third out at 160 hit 71 off 112 ballswith four hits to the ropes.