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India Under-19s beat Sri Lanka Under-19s by 22 runs in the second Youth ODI in Kurunegala

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Aug-2013
ScorecardFile photo: Vijay Zol struck a second consecutive fifty to help India beat Sri Lanka by 22 runs•ICC/GettyVijay Zol hit ahis second consecutive half-century to guide India to a 22-run victory in a closely fought match against Sri Lanka in the second Youth ODI in Kurunegala.Sri Lanka, chasing 241, were comfortably placed at 152 for 4, but Priyamal Perera’s wicket triggered a collapse, with the hosts losing the remaining batsmen for just 66 runs, as all the Indian bowlers kept up the pressure and bowled at under six an over.India, electing to bat, got off to a good start as the openers Ankush Bains and Akhil Herwadkar struck a total of seven fours and one six, and added 70 for the first wicket. However, medium-pacer Chamika Karunaratne got the breakthroughs for Sri Lanka by dismissing the pair, as well as Sanju Samson in quick succession to leave India precariously placed at 84 for 3. Karunaratne was the pick of the bowlers, and eventually finished with 4 for 44.But Zol, coming in at No. 3, followed up his 76 in the first ODI with another crucial fifty, as India began to seize the initiative. Zol struck six fours and one six during his 75-ball 67, and put up a 62-run fifth-wicket stand with Ricky Bhui to take India to 177 after 38.Zol was eventually caught by Sadeera Samarawickrama off Roshan Anurudda, but offspinner Aamir Gani gave a late flourish to the innings with an 18-ball 25 that included three fours, pushing India to 240.Sri Lanka began their chase slowly, as medium-pacers Atit Sheth and Abhimanyu Lamba removed Kavindu Kulasekara, Minod Bhanuka and Kusal Mendis inside 10 overs. Samarawickrama tried to counterattack with a 52-ball 36, but was out leg before by left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav to leave Sri Lanka struggling at 77 for 4.Perera and Thilaksha Sumanasiri fought back with a 75-run fifth-wicket partnership to keep the match evenly poised, but Lamba bowled Perera in the 38th to hand India the initiative.Sumanasiri remained unbeaten by scoring 73 off just 82 balls, but with wickets falling regularly at the other end, he could make little difference, as the Indian bowlers held their nerves to bowl Sri Lanka out for 218.

New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee has been declared fit for the first Test against England, which begins at Lord’s on Thursday

ESPNcricinfo staff13-May-2013New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee has been declared fit for the first Test against England, which begins at Lord’s on Thursday.The New Zealand team management had rested Southee after lunch on the third day of the warm-up match against England Lions in Leicester, after he picked up a foot injury. Southee, who bowled 19 overs in the four-day game, visited a specialist in London over the weekend to erase all injury concerns.”Tim is fine,” Mike Hesson, New Zealand coach, told the media at Lord’s on Monday. “It was very much a precautionary response from us to send Tim down to London for further investigations. He had some treatment on his toe and he is very comfortable and will be all right for the first Test.” Hesson also cleared doubts over left-arm seamer Neil Wagner, who suffered a broken toe-nail but has been declared fit.During the drawn home Test series against England in March, New Zealand persisted with same XI in all three matches, an approach Hesson admitted was important to provide stability and confidence to the squad.In that series, which was drawn 0-0, the hosts stuck to three fast bowlers in Southee, Wagner and Trent Boult along with Bruce Martin, the left-arm spinner. Although he did not reveal the line-up for the first Test, Hesson said he was open to playing four fast bowlers based on the ground and overhead conditions.”Absolutely. It is an option,” Hesson said. “We are not closed in our views in terms of who we play. Whoever is left out is a tough decision but we have got to pick the best side for the conditions.”

A round-up of Regional Super50 matches played on March 21, 2013

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Mar-2013
ScorecardKevon Cooper’s career-best five-wicket haul helped T&T down CCC in their chase•WICB Media/Ashley Allen PhotoKevon Cooper’s five-wicket haul helped Trinidad & Tobago beat Combined Campuses and Colleges by eight wickets in Port of Spain. CCC were put into bat, but couldn’t build substantial partnerships, as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Only four of the eleven batsmen got double-digit scores, as CCC’s batsmen were restricted by the bowling efforts of Kevon Cooper, who picked up a miserly career-best 5 for 17 in his quota of overs. He was ably supported by Yannick Cariah, who picked up 3 for 14. CCC were wrapped up for 97 in the 38th over.T&T were assured in their chase, as the openers put up 40 for the first wicket, followed by another 44 runs when Adrian Barath and Justin Guillen got together. T&T were able to finish off the chase in the 22nd over. Barath would finish for an unbeaten 40. With this win T&T move to second place in the table.
ScorecardJamaica’s combined batting effort ensured they beat Leeward Islands by 57 runs in Kingston. Leeward Islands elected to field, and their decision was backed initially by their bowlers, as they reduced Jamaica to 10 for 2 early on. Danza Hyatt and Andre McCarthy put up a 92-run stand to lend stability to the order. McCarthy was run out, bringing Tamar Lambert to the crease, who struck an unbeaten 77. Hyatt fell one run short of a deserved hundred by getting himself run out while going for the decisive run. Jamaica finished 253 for 4 at the completion of their overs.Leeward Islands required big partnerships early on to steady the chase, but lost wickets regularly. Their captain, Sylvester Joseph, played anchor through the innings, with Tonito Willett (20), Jahmar Hamilton (19), and Lyndel Richardson (19) chipping in. Joseph would eventually fall for 83, as Leeward Islands folded for 196 in the 45th over. Both Nikita Miller and Andrew Richardson picked up three wickets a piece. This win maintains Jamaica’s position on top, but by a slight two-point margin over T&T.
ScorecardA career-best five-wicket haul from fast bowler Jonathan Carter helped Barbados beat Windward Islands by 99 runs at Kensington Oval. Carter ran through the lower half of Windward’s line-up, as they were eventually bowled out for 180 in their chase. The victory gave Barbados five points, and lifted them to third in the table.Batting first, Barbados lost their opener Rashidi Boucher in the seventh over, but thereafter a series of partnerships, led by 88 between Kraigg Brathwaite and Kirk Edwards and a quick 77 between Dwayne Smith and Kenroy Williams, pushed them to a competitive 279. Edwards and Smith scored half-centuries, with Smith scoring a 29-ball 53, smashing three fours and four sixes. Fast bowler Nelon Pascal took three wickets, but was the most expensive Windward bowler, giving away 87 runs in ten overs.Windward’s innings, in contrast to Barbados’, failed to gather any momentum. Seamers Jason Holder and Fidel Edwards had reduced them to 29 for 3 by the sixth over, and although Andre Fletcher (42), Dalton Polius (37) and Liam Sebastien (33) tried to revive the chase, Carter ensured they lost five wickets for 27 runs. Windward eventually folded in 47 overs.

England suffered their second successive defeat in a tour game as their bowlers failed to defend 295 against Delhi at the Kotla in seemingly bowling-friendly conditions

The Report by Amit Shetty08-Jan-2013
ScorecardShikhar Dhawan’s hundred led Delhi to a shock win against the England tourists•K SivaramanEngland suffered their second successive defeat in a tour game as their bowlers failed to defend 295 against Delhi at the Kotla in seemingly bowling-friendly conditions. The ineffectiveness of the bowlers against a side possessing only a couple of known players is a worrying sign for Ashley Giles, the coach, ahead of the first ODI that begins in three days’ time on a likely flat track in Rajkot.Choosing to bat first, the England batting clicked after they had collapsed to 175 all out in the previous warm-up match. Ian Bell followed up his 91 against India A with a century that helped other players to attack around him and post a daunting 294. However, they were not prepared for a backlash from Shikhar Dhawan, the Delhi opener, whose aggressive hundred set the tone for the other batsmen as Delhi overhauled the target comfortably in the penultimate over.While Bell’s innings had been scratchy, Dhawan’s was dominating right through. Whether it was Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker, Steven Finn or Chris Woakes, Dhawan played freely against them all. He drove majestically and was quick to pull anything short, the extra pace offered by the England bowlers suiting his strokeplay. When Meaker pitched short to him, he pulled one deep into the stands at midwicket for one of his three sixes.Dhawan, who has been on the fringes of India selection for sometime, also staked his claim for the opener’s role in the national XI. Virender Sehwag, India’s regular opener, has already been dropped and Gautam Gambhir’s position at the top isn’t any firmer.His 100 came off 98 balls with a slog-swept six off Tredwell. Dhawan also found solid support from 21-year-old batsman Milind Kumar, who remained unbeaten on 78.The Delhi batsmen, though, were helped by some wayward bowling by the England bowlers, who were also a touch short throughout the innings. The seamers were taken for 188 runs in 30.3 overs on a track where the India and Pakistan fast bowlers found help a couple of days ago.James Tredwell, deputising for the rested Graeme Swann, accepted that England needed to improve markedly in the opening ODI against India in Friday.”It’s obviously not been ideal,” he said. “We like to go in and win these games but we’ve not hit our skills in the way we’d have liked. We need to make some improvements in the next couple of days. We didn’t hit our lengths consistently enough to build pressure over periods of time.”The result is irrelevent, but to be able to turn it around in the next couple of days going into the first ODI is crucial. We all have massive pride in our performances so when things don’t go to plan it’s disappointing. We can build on that disappointment and put it right going into the first game.”While the bowling attack suffered, England’s experienced batsmen made most of their time in the middle. Apart from Bell, three other batsmen – Alastair Cook, Eoin Morgan and Craig Keiswetter – made useful contributions and got the much-needed batting practice ahead of the five-match series.Bell, who opened the batting along with Cook, looked uncomfortable initially as the ball didn’t come on to the bat and seamer Parwinder Awana troubled him with a tight line outside off. But he saw through the period by dropping anchor at his end and letting Cook play aggressively.Cook, the England captain, was in good touch and two of his shots – a cover drive and a backfoot punch through cover-point – both off Awana, stood out. He scored 44 before seamer Sumit Narwal breached his defence, but an opening stand of 70 had already given the visitors a good start.Although Joe Root and Samit Patel missed out, Morgan and Kieswetter attacked in the latter half of the innings, scoring 52 and 41 respectively, to put up a strong total. The bowling today, however, let the advantage slip through.

Pragyan Ojha has said he is keen to prove himself in conditions outside India as well

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Mar-2013Pragyan Ojha, the India left-arm spinner, has played 22 Tests and is the third quickest Indian to reach 100 wickets, but is yet to play outside the subcontinent. Ojha said he wants to change that and is keen to prove himself in conditions outside home as well.”I want to play and succeed in different parts of the world and in different conditions,” Ojha told the BCCI website. “When you’re playing on tracks like this [Delhi], as a spinner things are very simple for you. You don’t have to try too many things and just focus on doing the simple things right. It will be a very big challenge for me to go abroad and pick wickets in some tough conditions.”Though Ojha has been a regular in India’s Test team at home in the past couple of years, he was left out of the side for the first two Tests against Australia. He was part of the squad for India’s last overseas tour, to Australia in 2011-12, but didn’t get to play any of the Tests.”My priority right now is to play more and more matches and not miss out on any cricket,” Ojha said. “If I keep bowling, I’ll keep my rhythm going and really, that’s all I can do to prepare for the coming overseas season.”Ojha made his debut in 2009, initially forming a spin partnership with Harbhajan Singh and, later on, with R Ashwin. He said his bowling had evolved over the past four years. “I have begun to vary my pace; when I started playing, I didn’t have much idea about how to vary my pace, use the crease and play around with the seam,” he said. “I have started to do all that now, which has added the required variety to my bowling.”

Kapil Dev, India’s 1983 World Cup-winning captain, has said that the BCCI cannot question Indian cricketers who are not employed by or contracted to it on matters that the board considers contradictory to its policies

ESPNcricinfo staff29-May-2012Kapil Dev, India’s 1983 World Cup-winning captain, has said that the BCCI cannot question Indian cricketers who are not employed by or contracted to it on matters that the board considers contradictory to its policies. His comments come in the wake of his exclusion from the BCCI’s list of former players who received a one-time benefit payment out of the profits of the IPL playoffs. It is believed Kapil was excluded because he had not accepted the amnesty offered by the BCCI following his involvement in the ICL – the now-defunct Twenty20 league that was not recognised by the ICC or the Indian board.”It [the BCCI] should realise that only those cricketers — present or former — who are contracted to it and are paid salaries, like selectors or coaches, are accountable to it,” Kapil wrote in the . “Not all cricketers are answerable to the board.”You can’t deny that player his due, which he is being given for the services rendered during his playing days. If you are taking money from the board — like the late Tiger Pataudi and Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, to be on the IPL board — then the board or any organisation has a right to question you. But a Dilip Vengsarkar, [he] is not answerable because he is not holding any post today where he is drawing money from the board.”He took up the ICL post, Kapil said, with a view to promoting cricket. “If they don’t want to recognise my game, I would like to say thank you and move on. Yes, I was connected with the ICL – if someone gives me a job, I would love to do it, especially when it is for the promotion of the game and when I am not an employee of any other institution.”There is one common thing in what the board [the BCCI] does and what I did, and that is promoting the game. If by doing that I have hurt someone, what can I do? All I can say is that I have no intention of hurting anyone, but it is too bad if it has been taken that way.”The BCCI has also excluded Kirti Azad, Kapil’s team-mate during the 1983 World Cup, from its list of beneficiaries. This was after Azad, a member of the Indian parliament, had spoken out against the IPL and the controversies surrounding the tournament. The board should have “reached out to Azad”, Kapil said, instead of ostracising him. “It should have heard his [Azad’s] views and sorted out the issue.”He was an India player and is now an MP. Ideally, the BCCI should have ensured he becomes a voice for it in parliament. It is the duty of the board, as patron of the cricketing fraternity, to find out why he spoke against it [the IPL] and resolve the issue. I am proud to see cricketers entering parliament — Kirti, Azhar [Azharuddin], [Navjot] Sidhu and Sachin. The board should ensure they become its backbone where national policy is being made.”

The West Indies captain Darren Sammy is confident the return of Chris Gayle will be the top-order boost his side needs to post winning totals in the Test series against New Zealand

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Jul-2012The West Indies captain Darren Sammy is confident the return of Chris Gayle will be the top-order boost his side needs to post winning totals in the Test series against New Zealand. Gayle is set to play his first Test since December 2010 when the two teams walk out in Antigua on Wednesday, and his absence over the past 18 months has left an enormous hole at the top of the order.During the standoff between Gayle and the WICB, the West Indies Test side used five different opening batsmen and between them they managed only three half-century partnerships in 31 innings. This year the results have been even worse: during the series against Australia and England the West Indies opening partnerships averaged 14.45.Gayle has played only one first-class match since his last Test but he showed no signs of rustiness against the red ball, crunching 165 from 155 balls for Jamaica against the Windward Islands in February. He also enjoys playing New Zealand; his Test average of 74.54 against them is his highest average against any country, and despite some low scores against them at the end of the recent ODI series he was comfortably the dominant batsman of the limited-overs portion of the tour.”It’s very exciting. I know he’s looking forward to being back in white clothes as well,” Sammy told reporters in Antigua ahead of the first Test. “Not just Chris but the entire team is looking forward to the Test series and hopefully we can continue the form we showed in the T20 and one-day series.”Our opening position has been a spot of bother for us, but with the experience [of Gayle] back there hopefully we can see off the new ball and put a good total on the board. The new ball we have struggled for the last year or so. His experience, he can pass it on to the younger players. But at the end of the day you’ve still got to go out there and put the performance out there in the middle, because we’ve got a good side on paper but you still have to go out there and do the business.”The two-match series provides West Indies with an excellent chance to improve their recent Test record; the only one of their past 10 Test series they have won was against Bangladesh. They can also take confidence from the tour match over the past few days, when the New Zealanders narrowly avoided defeat against the WICB President’s XI in a match in which several Test squad members performed strongly.”We had five or six of our guys playing against New Zealand in the practice game. I think they did it well,” Sammy said. “Kemar [Roach] came back from injury and he had a good bowl. [Shivnarine] Chanderpaul [made 51], [Narsingh] Deonarine scored a hundred, [Assad] Fudadin looked good. The guys who played during the one-day series have had a chance to go home and rest up and come back fresh.”One of those men who has taken some time off was the offspinner Sunil Narine, who was the Player of the Series in the ODIs against New Zealand and is the only specialist slow bowler in the West Indies Test squad. The visitors struggled against Narine’s variations during the limited-overs games and Sammy said that while the challenge in Test cricket was different, Narine would again be a handful.”[On] the type of wickets we play on in the Caribbean, spin plays an important role,” Sammy said. “We have a world-class spinner in Narine, who proved that throughout the one-day and T20 competition that he’s a handful here in the Caribbean. It’s a different ball and batsmen don’t have to attack him, but I back him to go out there and do well for us.”

Sam Robson, Middlesex’s Australian-born batsman, has made the earliest first-class hundred ever witnessed in the UK – and he did it before March was out.

David Hopps01-Apr-2012It would have sounded like an April Fool to the cricketers of yesteryear, but it is a fact: Sam Robson, Middlesex’s Australian-born batsman, has made the earliest first-class hundred ever witnessed in the UK – and he did it before March was out.Robson struck a century on the opening day of the match between Middlesex and Durham MCCU at Merchant Taylor’s School in Northwood as counties revelled in balmy early-Spring weather.It was all but certain that a record would be set as five first-class matches began on the last day of March. There were seven hundreds in all as the counties warmed up against University opposition, but Robson’s was the first, secured shortly after three o’clock. A 22-year-old batsman from Sydney, he made 117 in 190 balls before he was run out. Middlesex declared, amid the creeping realisation that history had been made, at 368-9.It might also be that March has provided what will turn out to be the fastest first-class hundred of the season. Graham Napier struck a 48-ball hundred with eight sixes against Cambridge UCCE at Fenner’s and immediately put himself in contention for the Walter Lawrence Trophy. Only one hundred was faster last season – Kevin O’Brien’s’ 44-ball affair for Gloucestershire against Middlesex.Essex made three hundreds in all in their 506-6 against Cambridge UCCE, but they were all late in the day with Robson’s achievement already confirmed.Glamorgan’s new captain, Mark Wallace, had to settle for becoming the earliest player ever to make a first-class hundred for a Welsh county – and in Wales they will tell you that is all that matters.The South African, Zachary Elkin, achieved his own small slice of history. He made the earliest hundred against a first-class county, batting through the day for 127 not out against Somerset in Taunton.England’s crowded first-class fixture list, currently under review, has forced the county season to resort to increasingly early starts. The opening round of championship matches begin on April 5, a fortnight earlier than what historically has been the traditional start in mid-April.Either the ECB has been extraordinary fortunate or the UK’s weather patterns are changing. The weather in early Spring has been dry and sunny for several successive years, forever destroying the theory that the most effective rain dance in the UK involves putting three sticks in the ground 22 yards apart and 22 people dressing in white.When the clocks went an hour forward last weekend for the start of British Summer Time, the UK was basking in temperatures up to 20C, outshining European holiday destinations such as Barcelona, Nice and Majorca.Merchant Taylor’s School will regard itself as a suitable venue for Robson’s spot of sporting history. The boys’ school was established in 1561 and its first headmaster, Richard Mulcaster, introduced the concept of referees in football.

Richard Levi, the South African opening batsman who holds the world record for the highest Twenty20 score, has signed with Somerset for the Friends Life T20

Firdose Moonda18-May-2012Richard Levi, the South Africa opening batsman who jointly holds the record for the highest score in Twenty20 internationals, has signed with Somerset for the Friends Life T20. Levi replaces countryman Faf du Plessis, who was not permitted to travel to Somerset by CSA because of national commitments.”We are delighted to have him on board,” Brian Rose, Somerset’s director of cricket said. “With Marcus Trescothick likely to miss the start of our T20 campaign, I wanted to sign a power hitter for the top of our batting order. Richard certainly fits the bill and is capable of making Taunton look a very small ground.”It was frustrating to miss out on du Plessis, particularly after what happened with Chris Gayle. But I am more than happy to have secured Richard’s services and we will keep fingers crossed that nothing happens to prevent him joining us.”Somerset have suffered major setbacks in their bid to secure a second overseas player for the Flt20. Chris Gayle pulled out of their campaign after opting to play for West Indies in the upcoming ODI series against England before du Plessis was forced to cancel his arrangement because CSA require him to play in a series between South Africa A and Sri Lanka A and an unofficial T20 tri-series with Zimbabwe and Bangladesh – a series that Levi and Albie Morkel, who has also agreed to play for Somserset, could still be required for.That series is scheduled from June 18 to 24. If they are required, the pair will be able to play in Somerset’s first two matches on June 13 and 14, before joining up with the South Africa national squad for their week in Harare. They would then return to Somerset to play the remaining five fixtures and be available for a potential quarter-final and finals day.Although Levi and Morkel are not CSA contracted players, unlike du Plessis, both are part of the national squad’s limited-overs plans and had to receive clearance from CSA before committing to Somerset. “Team management and the coaching staff had a discussion about it and we decided it’s about giving both opportunity and experience in this format,” Mohammed Moosajee, South Africa team manager, said.Levi, in particular, has found a niche in the twenty-over game. He smashed an unbeaten 117 in his second T20 match for South Africa against New Zealand in Wellington in February, breaking Chris Gayle’s record and hitting the most sixes in a T20 innings with 13. The 45-ball century was also a world record.The knock earned him a contact with the Mumbai Indians for the IPL season, after initially going unsold, and he immediately impressed with a half-century on debut for them. Since then, Levi has struggled, particularly against the pace and swing of Dale Steyn. He has played in six matches and totalled 83 runs and could use more time in the middle in preparation for the World T20 later this year.Somerset are set to provide that, extending their long association with South African players. Graeme Smith captained them to victory in the Twenty20 Cup in 2005 and they have recently enjoyed the services of seamer Vernon Philander in the County Championship.

A round-up of the action from the fourth day of the final round of matches in the Ranji Trophy Plate Division 2011-12

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Dec-2011Group AHimachal Pradesh gained the first-innings lead that was enough to secure them a place in the semi-finals and consign Kerala to another season in the Plate League. HP were favourites coming into the final day in Kannur, having posted a solid 452 before reducing Kerala to 249 for 7. The team which took the first-innings lead in the match was almost certainly guaranteed to qualify. HP duly booked their place by taking less than four overs to remove the final three Kerala wickets, which reduced the rest of the day to a formality. Kerala batted again and made 209 for 4, rendered meaningless as the three points which HP gained for the first-innings lead pushed Kerala to third place and out of the race.Andhra had to be content with a hard-fought first-innings lead against Vidarbha in Cuddapah. Their chances of progressing to the semi-finals depended on them defeating table-toppers Vidarbha by an innings or 10 wickets, something which was virtually out of the equation after the opposition batsmen gritted it out for almost two entire days. Andhra’s overnight batsmen, Prasanth Kumar and AG Pradeep, both went on to complete centuries to lift the total beyond Vidarbha’s first-innings effort of 382, though that didn’t prevent Vidharba from making the semi-finals. Andhra finished in fourth place, on 12 points.The match between the two teams in the group who were eliminated even before the round began proved to be the most interesting one. Instead of a bore draw, Services and Tripura played out a tightly contested match in Agartala, in which Services eventually emerged victors by six wickets. Half-centuries from opener Jasvir Singh and Soumyaranjan Swain proved enough to guide Services to the target of 217, which gave them their first win of the season, and also made it a tight group – the top five teams were separated by only four points. Tripura, by contrast, ended on one point from the season, a full ten points behind their nearest competitor.Group AMaharashtra, the only team to cement their place in the semi-finals before this round began, finished off their league phase in style. Though their match against Assam in Guwahati seemed to be heading for a draw at the start of the fourth day, they sparked an astonishing second-innings Assam collapse before beating the clock as they knocked off the 218 needed to secure their third win of the season, more than any other team has managed so far. Akshya Darekar started Assam’s slide before Samad Fallah mopped up the tail – both bowlers finished with four wickets. Assam’s final seven batsmen were dismissed for 62 runs.The job was still not done though. Opener Chirag Khurana’s brisk 88 set the base for the tricky chase, and though he was dismissed 50 runs away from the target, Maharashtra didn’t ease off. Nikhil Paradkar and Sangram Atitkar both scored at more than a run-a-ball to complete the final stretch before time ran out.Hyderabad needed just one point to be absolutely certain of making the semi-finals, a goal they easily achieved despite conceding the first-innings lead against Jammu & Kashmir at Uppal. They needed to bat out much of the final day to ensure the draw which would be enough to send them through. Centuries from T Suman and Akshath Reddy ensured there were no anxious moments of Friday, as Hyderabad coasted to 296 for 2 by stumps.There was plenty of excitement in Jamshedpur where though both Goa and Jharkhand were already pretty much eliminated, there was a tight contest. Chasing 234, Goa’s overnight pair of Ryan D’Souza and Vidyadar Kamath had seemingly put their team on course, with half-centuries and a 133-run second-wicket stand. However, from 133 for 1, Goa stumbled to 188 all out as Jharkhand’s spin pair of Shahbaz Nadeem and Samar Quadri shared nine wickets to fashion an unlikely victory. It was Jharkhand’s first win of the season, and lifted them to the fourth spot, tied on nine points with Goa.