da bet7： A fine spell of bowling by the left-arm spinner Manish Majithia (4 for38) saw All India Associate Bank score a 17 run win over India Cementsin the 50th All India Sankar Cement Pooja Cricket Tournament final atthe Palace Oval in Thripunithura on
Natarajan Sriram08-Oct-2000A fine spell of bowling by the left-arm spinner Manish Majithia (4 for38) saw All India Associate Bank score a 17 run win over India Cementsin the 50th All India Sankar Cement Pooja Cricket Tournament final atthe Palace Oval in Thripunithura on Sunday.Set to score 213 for a win, India Cements were off to a sedate startwith openers J Honeyman (28) and K George John (6) adding 28 runs in6.3 overs. George John was the first to go when Manohar pouched acatch off NP Singh. MA Satheesh (23) then joined Honeyman and realisedthe fifty for India Cements when Honeyman was stumped off Majithia.Satheesh himself did not last long and in the 15th over of the inningshe fell leg before to R Sridhar. This brought in Sadashiv Iyer (6) andin the company of S Sharath (33) took the score onto 81, when theformer offered a return catch to Majithia. Sharath and Gokulakrishnan(12) did not last long. Sharath offered a chance to B Akhil off MPanchasara while Gokulakrishnan was caught by D Manohar off KST Sai.With the score 134 for 6, S Oasis (43) and S Suresh (28) tried to putthe India Cements back on track with a 53 run seventh wicketpartnership. Oasis was stumped off Majithia at this crutial junctureand India Cements lost their way. The last three batsmen could not hitthe required runs and the innings folded up at 195.Earlier, put into bat, All India Associate Bank put up 212 runs in41.5 overs. Openers D Manohar (67) and M Srinivas (12) put on 28 runsin 4.5 overs. Srinivas became the first casuality when he was caughtbehind off Devanand. This brought in D Bundela to the centre and alongwith Manohar forged a 114 run second wicket partnership in 21 overs.Bundela was the second batsman to be dismissed, caught by Mariano offSuresh. Six balls later, Manohar gave a return catch to Honeyman. KNRamesh (2) also did not last long and off the last ball of the 29thover he was dismissed. Thereafter, wickets fell at regular intervalsas the batsmen got the starts but could not stay long enough at thecrease.Earlier in the semi finals All India Associate Bank scored a 60 runwin over State Bank of Travancore while India Cements hada facileseven wicket win against MRF.