da betano casino： Georgetown: A fine 89 from Ramnaresh Sarwan and a solid 68 byRyan Hinds saved West Indies A from complete collapse on theopening day of the second and final four-day Test against IndiaA at Bourda yesterday
01-Dec-1999Georgetown: A fine 89 from Ramnaresh Sarwan and a solid 68 byRyan Hinds saved West Indies A from complete collapse on theopening day of the second and final four-day Test against IndiaA at Bourda yesterday.The hosts, who won the toss and batted in ideal conditions,rallied to 227 for eight at the close with Sarwan being dismissedoff the penultimate ball of an absorbing day’s play.The total represented a good recovery, engineered by the righthanded Sarwan and left-handed Hinds after the home team slumpedto 60 for four at lunch.Guyanese Sarwan, 19, who struck a six, a five and 12 fours in 285minutes, shared a face-saving 137-run fifth-wicket partnershipwith the Barbadian Hinds, the West Indies Youth World Cupskipper.The pair took the initiative from the Indians after fast bowlerHarvinder Singh Sodhi and left-arm spinner Murali Karthik hadthreatened to dismiss West Indies A for a moderate total withtwo wickets each in the pre-lunch session.By tea, the were 131 for four with the more aggressive Hinds on45 and Sarwan moving to 30 from his lunch-time five.The two teenagers, mixing aggression with defence and runningsensibly between the wickets, defied the pace-spin attack of theIndians for the entire post-lunch session. Hinds, already with ahalf-century in the first Test in Trinidad and Tobago lastweek, reached a richly deserved 50 just after tea with twoconsecutive fours off left-arm spinner Rahul Sanghvi, whileSarwan followed suit with a lofted extra-cover drive off the samebowler.Hinds fell with the total at 190 for five when he played a tiredlooking flick shot at left-arm Sridharan Sriram and was bowled.His 205-minute knock included ten fours.