da bet esporte： A second wicket partnership of 123 runs off 175 balls between NikhilHaldipur (92) and Rohan Gavaskar (53) placed Bengal in the driver’sseat in their Ranji Trophy Super League match against Delhi atCalcutta on Thursday
Sakyasen Mittra17-Feb-2000A second wicket partnership of 123 runs off 175 balls between NikhilHaldipur (92) and Rohan Gavaskar (53) placed Bengal in the driver’sseat in their Ranji Trophy Super League match against Delhi atCalcutta on Thursday. Bengal finished the day at 194 for four wicketswhen play was called off 19.2 overs before the scheduled close of playdue to bad light.Earlier, the Bengal bowlers had restricted Delhi to 236 in the firstknock with opener Akash Chopra being the top scorer with 95. It was amarathon knock that saw occupy the crease for 437 minutes. He faced328 balls and hit 12 boundaries. He was the last batsman to bedismissed off Utpal Chatterjee, caught at slip by SauravGanguly. Laxmi Ratan Shukla took the wickets of Rahul Sanghvi andSanjay Gill to finish with four wickets while Sumit Panda started theslide dismissing Nikhil Chopra in the third over of the morning.Bengal were rocked early as Gill had Devang Gandhi caught behind for aduck. Then Haldipur and the junior Gavaskar took over. Both playedfreely in front of the wicket and never allowed the bowlers todominate. Haldipur was severe on Robin Singh (jr) whom he hit forthree fours in an over. Just when he looked set for his sixth RanjiTrophy hundred he holed out to mid on of the bowling of RahulSanghvi. It was a rash shot. His 92 was compiled off 118 balls with 16boundaries. Gavaskar completed his 50 gliding Chopra to the fine legfence. But he perished in the next over bowled by Sanghvi. He tried toloft him over mid off and was caught by Chopra.In walked Ganguly. The 8000-odd crowd which had gathered to watch himhowever, were disappointed as he fell for five. He was not fullyforward to a ball from Chopra and the resultant pad-bat was snapped upat silly point by substitute Gautam Gambhir for only five. At stumpsSrikant Kalyani (23) and Syed Saba Karim (11) were taking Bengaltowards their first target of five points for the first innings lead.