da brdice： Anil Kumble and Sunil Joshi shared seven wickets as KSCA XI took afirm grip on their Coromandel Cement Cup quarterfinal against Oil &Natural Gas Corporation at the Maharaja Jayachamarajendra WodeyarSports Complex in Bangalore on Monday
Staff Reporter06-Aug-2001* Kumble, Joshi help KSCA XI take firm gripAnil Kumble and Sunil Joshi shared seven wickets as KSCA XI took afirm grip on their Coromandel Cement Cup quarterfinal against Oil &Natural Gas Corporation at the Maharaja Jayachamarajendra WodeyarSports Complex in Bangalore on Monday.Replying to KSCA’s first innings total of 225, ONGC were all out for136. In their second innings, KSCA were 33 for one at stumps.Resuming at 187 for seven, KSCA thanks to David Johnson’s bright 52did well to get to their final total. The former India paceman facedjust 39 balls and hit five fours and four sixes before he was ninthout.ONGC found Kumble and Joshi hard to handle and lost wickets at regularintervals. Former India opener Gagan Khoda top scored with 35 but therest of the batting caved in and ONGC were shot out in 42.1 overs.While Kumble took four for 32 off 12 overs, Joshi had three for 47 off14 overs. Vadeyaraj with two for nine off 4.1 overs hastened the endof the innings.In the KSCA second innings, Mithun Beerala was bowled by P Jain offthe first ball of the innings but Barrington Rowland (19) and DeepakChougule (13) steadied the innings.* HCA XI take healthy lead against India PistonsHaving let the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) XI side to score303 in their 90 overs, the India Pistons team slumped to 214 all outin 72.5 overs to concede a lead of 89 runs in their Coromandel CementCup quarter-final clash at the Gangotri Glades ground in Mysore onMonday. In their second essay, HCA XI notched up 30/3 in 8.5 overs andthe match remained interestingly poised at the end of the second day.Earlier, Narendra Pal Singh and Mohammed Ghouse scalped three wicketseach and knocked the stuffing out of the India Pistons team. Reducingthe side to 79/5 the HCA XI bowlers put an end to any hopes of anIndia Pistons comeback. Skipper Vikram Rathour (43) departed at thatpoint and that made things difficult for the Chennai side. Ashique Ali(47) and Dhandapani (45) put on some late in the order resistance butit was to no avail and in the 73rd over India Pistons were bowled out.In their second innings, HCA XI lost three wickets but added 30 runsto the already sizable lead in 8.5 overs. Anirudh Singh (1 not out)and Arjun Yadav (0 not out) had just come together at the crease asthe day’s play ended.* Kanitkar’s unbeaten ton puts Roofit XI in commandRoofit XI, Mumbai took a stranglehold on their Coromandel Cement Cupquarterfinal against KSCA Colts at the RSI ground in Bangalore onMonday. At stumps on the second day, Roofit XI had scored 307 forthree off 77 overs in reply to KSCA Colts’ first innings total of 206.The architect of Roofit’s strong reply was former Test cricketerHrishikesh Kanitkar. The left hander was batting with 128 at stumps.He has so far faced 164 balls, with 13 boundary hits. Roofit made abad start losing Satyajit Parab (9) and skipper Jatin Paranjpe (21)with only 41 runs on the board. The other opener A Merchant (61) andKanitkar initiated a recovery process by adding 81 runs for the thirdwicket off 20.3 overs. Merchant played 111 balls and hit nine fours.Kanitkar and Kiran Powar (83 not out) then carried on the good workand by close, had figured in an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 185runs off 41.3 overs. Powar has so far played 137 balls and hit fivefours and two sixes.Earlier, KSCA Colts, 200 for eight overnight could add only six runsto the score before they were all out.* Chemplast-BPL Sports Club share honours at end of Day 2Beginning the second day of their Coromandel Cement Cup quarter-finalagainst Chemplast at the Central College ground on 176/5, BPL SportsClub made it to 278 all out in 89.5 overs. Yerre Goud, resuming on 61,was dismissed after he added only five runs to his score. None of theremaining batsmen made a useful contribution. Twenty-one-year old leftarm spinner R Ramkumar was the wrecker-in-chief, scalping 7/98 fromhis 37.5 overs.In response, Chemplast reached 163/3 in 49 overs when the day’s playended. After losing skipper Diwakar Vasu (0) very early, Chemplaststaged a recovery. Jacob Martin was the architect of the comeback andremained unbeaten on 61. For company, the Baroda middle order batsmanhad Ajay Kudua, who struck 58 in 72 balls with eight fours in hiscustomary breezy fashion. The pair have added 87 for the fourth wicketthus far. With the match poised as it is, the first innings lead isall important.