da betano casino: Hyderabad, needing an outright victory, did not do their cause anygood on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Super League Group Bmatch against Baroda at the Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad onSunday
12-Mar-2000Hyderabad, needing an outright victory, did not do their cause anygood on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Super League Group Bmatch against Baroda at the Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad onSunday. The home team were all out for 204 and Baroda, who on theother hand require just three points from this game to qualify for theknock out stage, were two for no loss when stumps were drawn.Winning the toss, Hydrabad were off to a sound start with openers ANandakishore (31 runs of 56 balls) and D Vinay Kumar (27 runs of 78balls) putting on 57 runs off 16 overs. But Hyderabad could not buildupon this and were soon 71 for three.Vanka Pratap, who had come in at the fall of the second wicket at 71,boosted Hyderabad’s hopes with three valuable partnerships. First, heand P Satwalkar (13) added 36 runs from ten overs for the fourthwicket. This was followed by a fifth wicket stand of 33 runs off 10.2overs between Pratap and NA Yadav (19). Pratap kept one end going andthen with R Sheikh (24 runs of 108 balls) added 35 runs off 19.3 oversfor the sixth wicket. Pratap was the sixth batsman dismissed when thescore was 175. However his departure triggered off a collapse and thelast five wickets fell for 29 runs.For Baroda, Valmik Buch was the most successful bowler taking threefor 60 while Rakesh Patel and Tushar Arothe had two wickets each for38 and seven runs respectively.