da apostebet： Ludhiana: Delhi registered a thrilling victory over last year’s zonalchampions Punjab by a wicket with a ball to space in their fourthone-day Ranji Trophy league tie at the Punjab Agriculture Universitystadium here today
Rajesh Arora13-Nov-1999Ludhiana: Delhi registered a thrilling victory over last year’s zonalchampions Punjab by a wicket with a ball to space in their fourthone-day Ranji Trophy league tie at the Punjab Agriculture Universitystadium here today.Electing to bat, Punjab were all out for 259 in 49.3 overs. Delhireached their target in 49.5 overs for the loss of nine wickets. Delhineeded ten runs of the last over which was bowled by Sandeep Sharma.Last man Rajesh Gehlot hit a six taking his team to the victory.Punjab skipper and opener Vikram Rathour scored a quickfire 65 off 76balls which included two sixes and seven hits to the fence and middleorder batsman Pankaj Dharmani blasted 69 of an equal number of ballswith the help of a six and five boundaries. Harbhajan Singh and DineshMongia chipped in 23 and 33 of 17 and 30 balls respectively.For Delhi skipper Ajay Sharma claimed five wickets of 32 runs in 5.3overs while medium pacer Ashish Nehra took two wickets by giving 43runs.Delhi started on a shaky note as opener Vijay Dahiya was adjudged legbefore off Rajinder Pal Singh when the score was ten. The secondwicket partnership of 134 runs between Ashi Dani and Neeraj Chawlapropped up the innings. Both batsmen made identical scores of64. Dani’s knock contained nine fours while Chawla hit sevenfours. The last pair of Ashish Nehra (17*) and Rajesh Gahlot( 7*) tooktheir team to victory with only a ball left.With this win Delhi have earned 8 points from four matches and Punjabcollected six points from same number of encounters.