da betsson： North Zone inflicted a crushing 237 run defeat inside three days overEast Zone in their Duleep Trophy clash at Guwahati’s North-EastFrontier Railway Stadium on Saturday
Staff Reporter20-Jan-2001North Zone inflicted a crushing 237 run defeat inside three days overEast Zone in their Duleep Trophy clash at Guwahati’s North-EastFrontier Railway Stadium on Saturday. Chasing 394 for victory, Eastcrumbled for the second time in the match, submitting meekly for 156in just three hours. The victory, worth eight points, kept North Zoneat the head of the pack with 18 points from three games.After Aashish Nehra, first innings wrecker-in-chief, dismissed NikhilHaldipur in the third over, Shiv Sunder Das and Rashmi Parida compiledthe highest stand of the innings. Their 49 run association was brokenwhen Reetinder Sodhi sent back Das for 27, which turned out to be thetop score. Parida and Sanjay Raul fell soon after to leave East at71/4. The left arm spin of Rahul Sanghvi then took out Rohan Gavaskarand Sukhbinder Singh in the space of five balls.Wicket keeper Deep Dasgupta, who struck a bright 25 in 32 ballsinclusive of four boundaries, was ejected by Nehra to leave East at106/7. Utpal Chatterjee and Mihir Diwakar added 44 for the ninthwicket in a last flicker of resistance before both fell in successiveballs.Sanghvi polished off the match, packing off Mohanty for a fifth ballduck. East’s second innings had lasted all of 40.2 overs. Sanghvifinished with 4/17, the off spinner Sharandeep not being used at all.Nehra scalped three for a costly 76 runs in 15 overs, collecting matchfigures of 10/90. East stay at a lowly five points from two games.