da betano casino： Central Zone’s Amay Khurasiya and Jai Prakash Yadav put a feeble East Zoneattack to the sword on the first day of their Duleep Trophy encounter atthe Green Park at Kanpur on Thursday
Staff Reporter11-Jan-2001Central Zone’s Amay Khurasiya and Jai Prakash Yadav put a feeble East Zoneattack to the sword on the first day of their Duleep Trophy encounter atthe Green Park at Kanpur on Thursday. At stumps on the first day, Centralhad progressed swiftly to 231/3 off just 53 overs after the start had beendelayed to 13.20 hours due to heavy fog.After Central were put in to bat, they lost opener Amit Pagnis in theeighth over of the day to eighteen year old Bihar speedster Mihir Diwakar.Khurasiya and Yadav then proceeded to wade into an attack, depleted by theabsence of Debashis Mohanty, with gusto in a second wicket stand of 182 offjust 37.4 overs.Hell broke loose with the introduction of former Indian left arm spinnerUtpal Chatterjee in the 18th over of the innings which Khurasiya massacredfor 18 runs (4 . . 4 4 6). The hapless Chatterjee’s second over was evenmore expensive, going for 19 (6 1 6 6 . .), including one six by Khurasiyaand two by Yadav. The last of those sixes also brought up Yadav’s fifty(off 76 balls) and simultaneously the century of the innings.Chatterjee was immediately withdrawn from the firing line and replaced byhis fellow left arm spinner Sukhbinder Singh. At the other end, seamerJaved Zaman went off after a fairly longish spell of 11 overs for 37 andoff spinner Sanjay Raul made an appearance. Neither Sukhbinder nor Raulwere able to make any impression on the marauding duo and Khurasiya broughtup his individual fifty (off 46 balls) with a six in Sukhbinder’s secondover.Central went into the tea break at 168/1 off 32 overs. There was nostopping Khurasiya who reached his hundred off 96 balls, but with the scoreat 212, he was dismissed by the persevering Zaman for 110 (108 balls, 15fours, 4 sixes). Nine runs later, Zaman struck again, in his next over,rattling the stumps of Yadav for 95 (160 balls, 10 fours, 3 sixes. By thistime Chatterjee had been restored to the attack and the veteran made amendswith a niggardly spell to finish with figures of 10-2-51-0, his last eightovers having cost just 14. Mohd. Kaif (12) and Gagan Khoda (2) took Centralthrough to stumps without further hiccups.