da mrbet： A superb spell of off spin bowling by Amol Jichkar (3 for 16) late inthe day saw Vidharba Cricket Association record a 24 run victory overBPL sports club in the Moin Ud Dowla Gold Cup Tournament at the NFCground in Hyderabad on Thursday
Natarajan Sriram07-Sep-2000A superb spell of off spin bowling by Amol Jichkar (3 for 16) late inthe day saw Vidharba Cricket Association record a 24 run victory overBPL sports club in the Moin Ud Dowla Gold Cup Tournament at the NFCground in Hyderabad on Thursday.Set to score 164 for a win BPL started rather badly losing opener VVinay Kumar (1) in the second over when C Atram trapped the former infront of the stumps. The other opener Dinesh (1) also did not lastlong and in the fourth over of the innings Atram trapped him in muchthe same way as his partner. The BPL captain Yere Goud (19) along withNitin Mulke seemed to be taking his team on the right path before Goudran himself out with his team score on 32.Mulke then kept the battle going and forged a 50 run fourth wicketpartnership along with SR Deepu (15) in 13.3 overs. Then with thescore at 92, Mulke himself departed after a well compiled 46 off 77balls which included four hits to the fence. The new bat Shashi (0)did not last long and with only a run added to the score he departed.At the fall of the sixth wicket at 107 in the 38th over, Vidharbaskipper Manish Dosi brought Jichkar into the attack and the right armspinner responded well. Jichkar gave three vital blows dismissing SShinde (16), Shadab Jakathi (5) and the BPL stumper Prasanna (2).Though the last wicket pair of Sandeep Hebbar (12 not out) and SyedNooruddin (12) added 23 runs BPL were left stranded at 139 in 45.3overs.Earlier, Put into bat, Vidharba Cricket Association managed to put up163 for the loss of nine wickets in their allotted 50 overs. Vidharbastarted with a minor hiccup losing opener Adwait Manohar (0) in thesecond over due to a mix-up which resulted in Adwait failing to reachhis crease. Mohd Sabir(7), who replaced Adwait, lasted just 21 minutesin the center before Hebbar shattered his defences.The 12th over saw the departure of Amit Deshpande (17) and three ballslater Ulhas Gandhe (0) gave a simple chance to the wicketkeeperPrasanna off the bowling of Hebbar. This brought in captain Dosi (34)and in the company Parimal Hedaoo (26) took the score on to 74. ThenDosi was joined by C Atram and the two added 44 runs for the sixthwicket in 12.5 overs. It was now left to Atram to hold the fort forVidharba. Though he kept losing partners he took the score on to 163before the overs ran out.