Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan settle for a draw
The Central Zone Under-14 match at the Sukhadia Stadium in Bhilwara on the third and final day on Thursday ended in a draw with Uttar Pradesh taking home five points on the basis of the first innings lead
Natarajan Sriram
02-Nov-2000
The Central Zone Under-14 match at the Sukhadia Stadium in Bhilwara on
the third and final day on Thursday ended in a draw with Uttar Pradesh
taking home five points on the basis of the first innings lead.
Rajasthan had to be content with three points.
Set to score 305 for a win, Rajasthan made a disastrous start losing
opener Ravishankar (0) bowled by Pradeep. Rajasthan were in deeper
trouble when Pradeep bowled Ankit Agarwal (0) with only 5 on the
board. Then Atul Puri (14) and Sanjay Bharti (86) added 45 runs for
the third wicket. After Atul's fall, Punit Yadav joined Sanjay to take
the score on to 132 when Punit fell to Bharat. Thereafter, Rajasthan
lost four quick wicket before stumps were drawn on the final day.
In their second innings, Uttar Pradesh openers AG Murtaza (122) and R
Pandey (23) added a quick 42 off 8.5 overs. Then D Issrani (54) joined
Murtaza to forge a 117 run second wicket partnership in 34.1 overs.
Thereafter, Murtaza found company in RK Shukla (50 not out) to put on
96 runs for the third wicket in 19.1 overs. The fall of Murtaza
prompted the UP skipper to declare the innings.
Earlier on the opening day, Uttar Pradesh won the toss and put up a
fighting 245 on the board. The chief architect being AN Alam with a
neatly compiled 108 off 165 balls. During his 218 minute stay Alam
held the UP innings together even as wickets kept falling at the other
end. In reply Rajasthan were all out for 196 runs giving a 49 run
lead to UP.