From: 9063iyerm@vms.csd.mu.edu (Murali Iyer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Some more news on the Duleep Trophy semis
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 14:41:48 GMT
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Hello everybody:

I received a couple of instalments from Sadiq this morning, so thought will
post it right away {Before Tittu decides to make another long-distance call to
get the news from me :--)} 

Begin clip from Sadiq [Taaza Taaza jalebi ...oops...Khabar] Yusuf

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North v/s South

        Here, North 1st inning got 317, and South replied with 367. Of those
367 runs, some I think were in the form of penalty for slow overrate, and
153 off the bat of Azhar. The rest of the team combined got 173 !!! Azhar was
supposedly briliant, hitting the bowlers all over the place. They specially
mentioned a few of the boundaries against Prabhakar as being brilliant, one
supposedly of a good length ball which was on driven to the fence as Azhar
went back and sort of converted it into a shortish length !
        Anyway. North on the 3rd evening began their 2nd innings, and were soon
8 for 3 !! Srinath at one stage had 3 overs , 1 run and 2 wickets !! Then, Ajay
Sharma and bhaskar got together and took them to 29/3 at hte close.No paper for
the next day, so the rest is pieced together from sources. The next day, Bhaskar
was injured by a yorker, and went off. Norht cruised for a while, and then
Raju struck four times in rapid succession leaving Norht at 150/7, just a
100 ahead. Bhaskar returned and took the score to 242 with Vijay Yadav, and
then Yadav fell. Then, Maninder came in and with Bhaskar took the score to
356 for 8 at the close. THe last morning, Bhaskar did not return, and Mani and
handari took the score to 356 for 8 ( sorry , overnight was 346/8) before
Maninder declared. Mani was 66 not out. So, South was left with the task of
scoring 307 in 86 overs for a win ( or just play out time I suppose, after
all, they led on the first inning). Instead, South crumbled badly , to 106
all out to lose by 200 runs !! As the reporter said , it would be shameful to
report the fact that 8 of the 106 runs came off the overrate penalty !!
Maninder 6 for 23 off 15 overs !!

        Srikkant c Yadav b Prab 14 ; Vasu c Jadeja b Mani 42;
        Dravid lbw Prabh 0 ; Azhar c Yadav b Chetan 4;
        Robin Singh c&b Mani 10; Ayub c kaypee b Mani 5;
        Kumble c A Sharma b Mani 0; A Vaidya c sub b Mani 14;
        Srinath c&b  Mani 3 ; V Prasad c Yadav b Chetan 1;
        Raju no 0;  ( 106 ) ( incl 8 runs penalty for 2 overs short)

        Prabhakar 17-2-54-2 ; Jadeja 4-2-7-0 ; Chetan 13.3-9-9-2;
        Mani 15-4-23-6

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        Well, thats that. Now, India is going to play Pakistan in the Mid east
( Dubai and Muscat ) in sort of exhibition games . Then, they return to
play the Duleep final ! Well, I was pleased that we stopped going to Sarjah
because there was too much cricket. But fat lot of good it does if we're going
to go to Dubai and Muscat instead !! Plus, our low-down , good-for-nothing
Doordarshan has reneged of their pledge to show the 2 games live, which has me
really annoyed. Would have been nice to see an India-Pak game live before I
had to return to the US ! Oh well. Musn't complain too much !!

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        BTW, It seems Salil Ankola has worked with "Typhoon" Tyson a bit
recently, supposedly has shortened his run up and lost weight. Bowled for
lonmg spells and very ver quick, 9 wickets on a spinners track , for about
108 or so. Should have done his chances a power of good, the newspaper
guy said today that he deserves a look-in . Hopefully the selectors are
listening !!

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                Sadiq [ taaza taaza khabar walla ] Yusuf

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Hi Murali,
        OK, this is getting silly ! Was supposed to be gone by now, but
have been delayed ! No net access, nothing to do but send mail, so might as
well send some stuff ! Don't think I sent you the scorecard of the North
Zone 2nd innings, so will do so now ! Really sorry about this being so
jumbled up. If I had known that I would be here for a while I would have
sent some more details . Oh well.
        Anyway. As I said , there was no newspaper for Ganesh Chaturti, and
so no details of the North innings. Still, we have got the scorecard, and
that does offer some clues.

        Jadeja c Azhar b Srinath 7
        Siddhu c Srikkant b Srinath 0
        Rajesh Puri lbw Ventakesh Prasad 0
        Ajay Sharma st Vaidya b Raju 32
        KP Bhaskar retd hurt 101
        Amarjeet Kaypee c Vaidya b Raju 26
        Prabhakar st Vaidya b Raju 33
        Vijay Yadav c Prasad b Srikkant 66
        Chetan Sharma st Vaidya b Raju 6
        Maninder Singh n.o. 66
        Yogendra Bhandari  n.o. 1
        ( 9 byes )
        ( plus other extras !)   ( 356 )
        FOW 1-7, 2-8, 3-8,  4-94, 5-101, 6-140, 7-150, 8-242, 9-346

        Now, there's a reason I mentioned the 9 byes. The South ZOne guys
are strongly pushing this new guy ( should he be on our probables list ?).
Young keeper, name of Avinash Vaidya. From Karnataka, has never played in
a Ranji Trophy game !! ( Sounds amazing that he could make the zonal side
without playing for his state side, doesn't it ?) . Was wondering who this
guy was, but read a small report on the Moin-ud-dowla tourney I think it was,
and they mentioned this guy , who picked up 10 catches in 3 OD games, and was
basically the star of the show. Have been following his performance with
greater interest since. Here he has 3 stumpings and a catch, and 9 byes let
thru. The 9 byes sounds highish, but the pitch was seemingly in bad shape and
it may be better than it looks. They did mention a dropped catch in the first
inning, but thats about all. Maybe we have someone to watch here after all,
and maybe the selectors aren't total idiots !!

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        BTW, the newspaper guy says today that Maninder seems to have
regained his appetite for big cricket , and that his captaincy in this match
was "a revelation". His 6/23 in the 2nd innings is a very encouraging sign,
at any rate ! Would be on _my_ team to SA ( am looking forward to getting
back to rsc and debating the team to SA :-) )

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That's it for now, folks. There is a lot of news in the above note for everyone
from India to mull over for the next few days, I am sure.



                               Murali Iyer 

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