da bet sport： Haryana were bowled out for 463 in 154.2 overs, shortly before the teainterval on the second day of the Cooch Behar Trophy final againstMadhya Pradesh at the Deccan Gymkhana grounds, Pune on Thursday
Waleed Hussain14-Dec-2000Haryana were bowled out for 463 in 154.2 overs, shortly before the teainterval on the second day of the Cooch Behar Trophy final againstMadhya Pradesh at the Deccan Gymkhana grounds, Pune on Thursday. Inreply, MP weathered the fall of two early wickets to end the day at 86for two.Haryana resumed on a healthy overnight score of 316 for three. Themiddle order batsmen failed to capitalise on it and the remainingseven wickets fell for the addition of 147 runs. Skipper Ajay Ratrawas the first to be dismissed. He was adjudged leg before wicketgiving Omprakash Yadav his first wicket of the day. Ratra could addonly one run to his overnight score and fell to the last ball of thefirst over.Sumeet Sharma (71) soon followed and was in the pavilion, adding sevenruns to his overnight score. The fall of both the overnight batsmentriggered a collapse in the middle order. Haryana lost five wickets inthe first session of the day and went to lunch on 387 for eight off125 overs. The post lunch session saw a revival in the batting thanksto Amit Mishra and Gaurav Vasishta. Mishra and Vasishta added 49 runsfor the ninth wicket off 22 overs. Their stay at the wicket ensuredthat Haryana passed the 400-run mark. The partnership ended one shortof the fifty mark when Mishra edged an outswinger from OP Yadav tostumper Naman Ojha. Amit Mishra scored 31 off 87 balls with four hitsto the fence.Nitin Agarwal joined Vasishta at the fall of this wicket and the duoadded 50 runs for the last wicket off 16.4 overs. Gaurav Vasishtaplayed a fighting knock scoring 56 off 113 balls, hitting six of themto the fence. He was dismissed shortly before the tea interval. NitinAgarwal was unbeaten on 15 off 52 deliveries. OP Yadav picked up threewickets for 127 runs, Maninder Singh and Jitendar Likhar each baggedtwo wickets each for 93 and 74 runs respectively.MP were happy to have restricted Haryana to less than 500 runs buttheir joy was short lived. They lost Sachin Dholpure in the secondover. Dholpure flicked a delivery off his pads and called for thesecond run but was caught short of his ground by an excellent throwfrom the fine leg boundary by Joginder Sharma. The sad tale for MPcontinued when Nitin Agarwal penetrated the defences of Naman Ojhacastling him on 15. The tenth over saw both openers in the pavilionwith 35 runs on the board. One drop Mohnish Mishra (31 batting) andJatin Saxena (20 batting) prevented any further damage. They added 50runs for the unbroken third wicket off 16.2 overs.