Jammu and Kashmir beat Services by 55 runs
New Delhi: An unbeaten century by Ashwani Gupta (137) and fine bowling by Kanvaljit Singh (3/50) helped Jammu and Kashmir beat Services by 55 runs in their fourth one-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league tie here today
Madhu Sanghi
13-Nov-1999
New Delhi: An unbeaten century by Ashwani Gupta (137) and fine bowling
by Kanvaljit Singh (3/50) helped Jammu and Kashmir beat Services by 55
runs in their fourth one-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league tie here
today.
Put in to bat, J & K made 285 for the loss of eight wickets in the
allotted 50 overs and then bowled out the hosts for 230 in 45 overs.
The visitors began disastrously, losing Ranjit Bali on one and
Kanvaljit Singh seven runs later. Amitpal (41) then joined Ashwani
Gupta in a 104-run partnership for the third wicket. Amitpal Singh was
run out at 112 and new man in Shashi Kumar (4) followed him soon
after. Ashwani Gupta and Dhruv Mahajan (29) then added 69 runs for the
fifth wicket to strenqthen the J & K innings.
Services began their chase badly, losing their top five batsmen for
just 71 runs as J & K seamers Vijay Sharma (2/40), Surinder Singh
(2/22) and Sanjay Sharma (2/28) bowled a tight line. C.D.Thomson (50)
and Amit Nadkarni (73) steadied the innings putting on 79 for the
sixth wicket, before J & K skipper Kanvaljit Singh (3/50) had Thomson
caught by Amitpal.
Kanvaljit Singh then went on to take the wickets of M.V.Rao and
Pradeep Maitrey to dismiss any hopes Services had of winning the
match.
For J & K Kanvaljit Singh took three wickets giving away 50 runs while
Vijay Sharma, Surinder Singh and Sanjay Sharma claimed two wickets
each.