da fezbet： Opener Cecil Williams’ unbeaten 114 went in vain as Saurashtracompleted a comfortable eight wicket victory over Baroda in theWest Zone Ranji Trophy one day league match at the Municipalstadium in Rajkot on Sunday
da premier bet： 10-Jan-2000Opener Cecil Williams’ unbeaten 114 went in vain as Saurashtracompleted a comfortable eight wicket victory over Baroda in theWest Zone Ranji Trophy one day league match at the Municipalstadium in Rajkot on Sunday.Opting to bat first, Baroda’s innings revolved totally aroundWilliams. The next highest score was NR Mongia’s 22. And thehighest partnership was 50 runs for the sixth wicket betweenWilliams and skipper AP Bhoite. Williams faced 142 balls and hitsix fours and three sixes. Thanks chiefly to his heroics,Baroda finished with 228 for seven off 50 overs.Saurashtra however made light of what should have been achallenging target. Openers RC Vasanth Kumar and HD Jani put on87 runs off 15 overs. Vasanth Kumar dominated the stand with aseries of attacking strokes and his 67 was hit off just 49balls, inclusive of 13 fours. Building upon the excellent startgiven by Vasanth Kumar, Jani and skipper Sitanshu Kotak added 83runs for the second wicket off 18.3 overs before the opener wasout for 54. He faced 90 balls and hit six of them to the ropes.Kotak in the company of PJ Bhatt steered Saurashtra to an easyvictory with 3.1 overs to spare with an unbroken thirdwicket partnership of 59 runs off 13.2 overs. Kotak’s unbeaten56 came up off 102 balls with four boundary hits while Bhatt’s38 not out was scored off just 42 balls with five hits tothe ropes.
