da aposte e ganhe： In a remarkable turn around in the Ranji One-Day South Zone League, the frontrunners Hyderabad found themselves going back home in the third position as theylost to Goa by 2 runs at CPT- India Pistons Ground, Chennai, on Monday
da dobrowin： Santhosh S11-Dec-2000In a remarkable turn around in the Ranji One-Day South Zone League, the frontrunners Hyderabad found themselves going back home in the third position as theylost to Goa by 2 runs at CPT- India Pistons Ground, Chennai, on Monday.Hyderabad finished with six points and found themselves out of the run quotientsituation and literally presented the championship to Karnataka who beat Andhrain the other match on Monday. Perhaps it was Tamil Nadu who applied the pressureon Hyderabad with their convincing victory over Kerala in double quick time. Thenews of an early Tamil Nadu victory made Hyderabad panic and lose wickets likefalling nine pins.Earlier in the morning Goa won the toss and elected to bat and were 52/2 in the15th over when N Naik was adjudged LBW to D Manohar for 25. Goa consolidatedthrough V Kolambkar and Tanveer Jabbar who added 92 runs in 22 overs. Kolambkardeparted in the 37th over stumped off the bowling of JS Yadav for 53 (90 balls,4 fours). BKP Misquin was run out in the 42nd over for 11 as the Goa score read169/4. Jabbar and A Amonkar added a qucik 44 runs in 5.2 overs but Amonkar wasdismissed for 27 in the 42nd over. Amonkar was severe on Hyderabad bowlershitting out a six and three fours in his 17 ball stay at the wicket. Jabbar wasin his elements, hitting a six and three fours in his innings of 77 made in 105balls and was dismissed in the 49th over. Goa lost two more wickets going forbig hits and were 235/8 at the end of 50 overs. NP Singh was easily the best ofthe bowlers and was possibly under-bowled finishing with the analysis of8-3-24-3Hyderabad had heard the news of Kerala bowled out for 184 by Tamil Nadu and wenton a mad run chase. Opener M Srinivas was the first to go in the fifth overafter he had made 9 in 12 balls including two fours. Captain VVS Laxman who wasconsidered by the national selectors for a place in the Indian team had his taskcut out clearly. Laxman and Daniel Manohar went on a rampage adding 125 runs in14 overs. Laxman was particularly severe on the bowling as he punished them atwill. He smashed 12 boundaries and a six in his 43 ball innings before beingbowled in the 19th over by RP Rane. Laxman’s efforts brought him 77 runs andmade it look like Hyderabad were cruising to the Wills Trophy. Vanka Pratap camein and left in the 23rd over after making 13 in 15 balls. Daniel Manohar whoplayed second fiddle to Laxman was not to be left behind, he made a mockery ofthe Goa bowling by hitting them all over the park to get to 95 in 77 balls whichincluded 10 smashing fours and two sixes.When all was well set for Hyderabad, there came the twist in the tale in the26th over bowled by Satyajit Medappa. Medappa removed PR Satwalkar (7) in thesecond ball caught by AI Aware and in the last ball of the over had Manoharstumped by Misquin and the Hyderabad score read 212/5 in 26 overs. SatyajitMedappa had Nandakishore caught behind and then ran JS Yadav out for a duck toreduce Hyderabad to 222/8 in 27.4 overs. Needing 14 runs to win Aware cleaned upMF Ahmed for 9 in the 33rd over. In the following over NP Singh was caught byJabbar off the bowling of Digvijay Singh for 7 leaving hyderabad four runs shortof a win and a place in the Wills Trophy. Satyajit Medaapa was the toast of Goaas he claimed three wickets and a run out as Hyderabad were dismissed for 233 in33.3 overs.
