Delhi win by 7 wickets

New Delhi: Rahul Sanghvi's five wicket haul led Delhi to an impressive seven wicket victory over Services in the first tie of the North Zone Ranji Trophy one day league at the Harbaksh Singh stadium here on Saturday.

Sanghvi (5 for 16) and skipper Ajay Sharma (3 for 22) enabled Delhi to dismiss Services for 114 runs in 46.4 overs. Chasing the easy target Delhi made the required runs in 23.3 overs losing just three wickets.

Services started coutiously with their openers putting on 55 runs before Sarabjeet Singh (15) became the first victim of Sanghvi. The other opener Narender Singh (29) followed by giving a simple catch to Nikhil Chopra at slip off Sanghvi. The other victims of Sanghvi were Abu Eric (11), C.D. Thomson (0) and M.V.Rao (6).

Delhi began the run chase disastarously by losing Ashu Dani (9) with just 18 runs on the board. Sohail Rauf (22) joined Vijay Dahiya (22) to steady the innings and added 45 runs for second wicket before Dahiya was caught by Sanjay Verma off Sudhakar Ghag. Then Jadev raised Services' hopes by dismissing Rauf in the next over with an inswinger. But Ajay Sharma and Mithun Minhas played with a cool head to stear Delhi home. Minhas with four boundaries remained unbeaten on 28 while Sharma chipped with an unbeaten 27.