da casino： West Zone were heading towards a big first innings lead at stumps onthe third day of their Duleep Trophy semifinal against East Zone atCalcutta on Saturday
11-Dec-1999West Zone were heading towards a big first innings lead at stumps onthe third day of their Duleep Trophy semifinal against East Zone atCalcutta on Saturday. In reply to West Zone’s first innings total of600 for eight declared, East Zone were a shaky 208 for five wickets atclose of play.West Zone, who resumed at 544 for seven, declared their innings afterscoring 56 more runs in eleven overs. The eighth wicket stand betweenIR Siddiqui and BN Mehta put on 46 runs before Siddiqui was out for 42while at the declaration, Mehta remained unbeaten with 24.Openers SS Das and Nikhil Haldipur gave East Zone a sound startputting on 83 runs off 28.5 overs. Das was then run out for 30. In thenext over East Zone suffered a major blow when the in form RohanGavaskar was leg before to Z Khan. The home team suffered a severesetback when Haldipur was also run out for 59 at 110. Haldipur, whowas shaping well, faced 106 balls and hit 12 fours. Mhambrey dismissedParida for 14 while T Rehman was leg before to BN Mehta for 4 and bynow the East Zone innings, at 155 for five, was in shambles. Howeverexperienced Saba Karim stood firm and by close of play he was battingwith 60. The India stumper faced 112 balls, hit eleven fours andreceived able support from Sukhbinder Singh (23) with whom he sharedan unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 53 runs in 19.4 overs bystumps.