da spicy bet： North Zone took a pincer grip on the second day of their Duleep Trophyclash against East Zone at Guwahati’s North-East Frontier RailwayStadium
da dobrowin： Staff Reporter19-Jan-2001North Zone took a pincer grip on the second day of their Duleep Trophyclash against East Zone at Guwahati’s North-East Frontier RailwayStadium. A magnificent spell of 7/14 in 14 hostile overs by AshishNehra wrecked the hosts for just 81. Batting again, North were bowledout for 268 in less than 58 overs with Yuvraj Singh and Vijay Dahiyaslamming aggressive half centuries. East are left with the task ofscoring a daunting 394 in two full days to close out an unlikelyvictory.Having taken both wickets last evening, Nehra lost little time thismorning in establishing his stamp over the proceedings as East resumedon 26/2. With just two runs added, nightwatchman Mihir Diwakar wasremoved in the third over of the day. The year old paceman followedthis up by dismissing Rashmi Parida for 28 and Rohan Gavaskar for asecond ball duck. East were down to 49/5 and Nehra had scalped allfive.Skipper Rathour proceeded to introduce a double spin attack in theform of Sharandeep Singh and Rahul Sanghvi. Both lived up to the faithreposed by their captain, scalping three wickets between them in thespace of 3.3 overs to leave East floundering at 80/8. Nehra returnedto fire out the last two men in the same over, as North grabbed a leadof 125. Parida’s score remained the highest in an innings in whichonly two men reached double figures, the other being stumper DeepDasgupta.Debashis Mohanty struck immediate retribution, having Akash Chopracaught behind with the first ball of North’s innings. Rathour stuck abrisk 35 but it was Yuvraj Singh who set hearts aflutter, blasting 77(78 balls, 14 fours) in just over two hours. The rest of the middleorder failed but keeper Vijay Dahiya, back after missing the entireaction in North’s first two games, smacked 70 (81 balls, 10 fours, 2sixes).With Sharandeep Singh, who is fast becoming an accomplished batsman inhis own right, Dahiya added 82 for the seventh wicket. North’s lastfour wickets fell in a heap for ten runs, Sharandeep remainingunbeaten on 42. Off spinner Sanjay Raul snapped up 3/24 in just 5.4overs while left arm spinner Sukhbinder Singh also collected threescalps.
