da brdice： Mohali: Hosts Punjab routed Services by an innings and 173 runs on thefinal day in their North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the PunjabCricket Association stadium here today
Rajesh Arora03-Nov-1999Mohali: Hosts Punjab routed Services by an innings and 173 runs on thefinal day in their North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the PunjabCricket Association stadium here today.Services, resuming at their overnight score of 112 for five were allout for the addition of 77 runs, 23 minutes before lunch. Overnightbatsman Pankaj Maitrey (1) was the first to depart as he nicked anoutswinger from Reetinder Sodhi to Pankaj Dharmani at 119. Ghan ShamThapa then joined his skipper Sanjay Verma and the two added 54 runsfor the seventh wicket in 85 minutes. Sanjay Verma (67) was playingwith grace and he struck six boundaries. He faced 199 balls during hisstay of 237 minutes at the crease. He was dismissed by a magnificantreturn catch by Navdeep Singh at 173. After his departure, theremaining three batsmen M.V.Rao (0), Syed Javed (6) and SachinKulkarni (7) were dismissed with the addition of only 16 runs to thetotal.Sarandeep Singh who took six wickets in the first innings, capturedfour wickets in the second innings taking his match tally to ten for91. Sandeep Sawal and Reetinder Sodhi bagged two wickets each givingaway 19 and 18 runs respectively.With this win, Punjab collected 16 points from two matches whileServices have not got any point so far.