da casino： New Delhi: Young and talented Sanjay Dalal (107*) enabled Haryanato salvage their pride by foring a draw against Delhi intheir second encounter of the North Zone Ranji trophy four day leaguematch at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here on Wednesday
Madhu Sanghi04-Nov-1999New Delhi: Young and talented Sanjay Dalal (107*) enabled Haryanato salvage their pride by foring a draw against Delhi intheir second encounter of the North Zone Ranji trophy four day leaguematch at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here on Wednesday.Haryana resumed their overnight innings at 90 for two with in-formJasvir Singh and Amarjeet Kaypee. Amit Bhandari raised hopes for histeam as he trapped Kaypee in front of the wickets when he added onlyone run to his overnight score. Ashish Nehra then took the wicket ofJasvir Singh (47) at 107. Rajesh Puri and Sanjay Dalal thenplayed with cool heads and added 124 runs off 39 overs beforePuri was leg before to Nehra at 231. Puri scored 66 runs facing113 balls. He remained at the wicket for 145 minutes and hit nine fours.Ajay Ratra now joined Dalal. At this stage Delhi seemed headedfor an outright victory because there were still 40 overs to bebowled. However full marks to Dalal and Ratra who showed a lot ofresponsibilty. Sanjay Dalal scored his first century while playinghis 12th innings in his ninth Ranji Trophy match. He faced 231 ballsand hit 11 boundaries. He was at the wicket for almost the whole day.Ajay Ratra also rose to the occassion and scored 61 runs with thehelp of seven boundaries. He faced 123 balls and was at the crease for 169minutes. The two youngstars added 115 runs for the unfinishedsixth wicket partnership and Haryana were able to pocket three valuablepoints. Haryana finished with 346 runs for the loss of five wickets. AshishNehra and Amit Bhandari captured two wickets each giving away 66 and 80runs respectively.Delhi have 13 points from two matches while Haryanaincreased their points tally to eight from an equal number of games.