Batsmen help Delhi enter quarterfinals
The batsmen enabled Delhi to comfortably enter the quarterfinals of the Vijay Merchant Trophy Under-16 tournament by virtue of the massive first innings lead of 199 runs over Orissa at the Calcutta Cricket and Football Ground in Calcutta on Wednesday
Natarajan Sriram
03-Jan-2001
The batsmen enabled Delhi to comfortably enter the quarterfinals of the Vijay
Merchant Trophy Under-16 tournament by virtue of the massive first innings lead
of 199 runs over Orissa at the Calcutta Cricket and Football Ground in Calcutta
on Wednesday. Delhi now take on Mumbai in the quarterfinal to be played from
January 5 to 7.
Resuming at 287 for 6, Delhi were all out for 430 in 137.2 overs. Carrying on
from were they left off, Abishek Nag (76) and A Bali (69) forged a 118-run
seventh wicket stand. A Bali was the first to be dismissed in the afternoon,
caught by G Sahoo off SK Jahangir. New batsman H Khullar departed seven balls
later, falling leg before to B Mohanty. Then Nag took the score to 430 when he
was bowled by R Mohanty. During his 228-minute stay, Nag faced 185 balls and hit
13 fours.
In the remaining 2-1/2 hours, Orissa in their second innings scored 137 while
losing the wicket of P Pradhan (19). The other opener Priyadarshi Debasish (50)
and Rakesh Mohanty (62) took the team to stumps without further hiccups.
Priyadarshi faced 147 balls and hit six of them to the ropes while Mohanty faced
90 balls and found the signboards eleven times.