Kambli, Muzumdar help West scale a mountain

Scoreboard

South Zone: Nandkishore c Zaheer b Siddiqui 4, Arunkumar st Mongia b Parsana 121, S Mahesh c Mongia b Siddiqui 85, S Sriram run out 16, S Sarath c Mongia b Bhoite 12, H Badani run out 0, Robin Paul not out 42, Aashish Kapoor c Parsana b Kulkarni 4, Dodda Ganesh lbw Kulkarni 8, Srikumar not out 1, Extras: lb 8, nb 4, w 12 24. Total: for eight wickets in 50 overs 317
Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-185, 3-214, 4-260, 5-260, 6-260, 7-279, 8-315
Bowling: Zaheer 10-0-68-0, Siddiqui 9-0-61-2, Kulkarni 10-0-52-2, Parsana 10-0-64-1, Bhoite 10-0-54-1, Kotak 1-0-10-0

West Zone: Sitanshu Kotak c amp; b Kumaran 31, N Modi c Ganesh b Nair 20, Vinod kambli not out 119, Amol Mazumdar run out 109, Abhijit Kale b Kumaran 5, Nayan Mongia not out 10. Extras: lb 6, nb 6, w 6 18. Total for four in 47.5 overs 320
Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-64, 3-290, 4-296.
Bowling: Kumaran 10-0-69-2 w 2, nb 2, Ganesh 9-0-64-0 w 2, nb 2, Nair 8.5-1-53-1 nb 2, Kapoor 10-0-56-0, Mahesh 8-0-55-0 w 1, Sriram 2-0-17-0 w 1

Easy for North Zone

BARODA: North Zone defeated East Zone by seven wickets in the Deodhar Trophy one-day cricket match here on Saturday.

Vikram Rathore was the top scorer for the winners with 70 while Sanjay Raul scored 53 for the East. Amit Bhandari and Sarandeep Singh took three wickets each. Ajay Jadeja got two wickets conceding 38 runs.

Jadeja was included in the team just before the start of the match. He was kept in the dark till late last evening about joining the team after being ordered out of the squad by a message from zonal selection committee convenor Sunil Dev to the team manager Suresh Luthra.

Commenting on Jadeja8217;s inclusion, BCCI secretary JY Lele told newsmen that the responsibility of admitting Jadeja in the team was purely left to North Zone authorities.

Scoreboard

East Zone: Shiv Shankar Das lbw Jadeja 23, Nikhil Haldipur c Dahiya b Robin Singh jr 0, Rohan Gavaskar c Sehwag b Jadeja 25, P Mullick c Dharmani b Bhandari 1, Saba Karim c Sehwag b Bhandari 3, Sanjay Raul st Dahiya b Sarandeep Singh 53, RR Parida c Sehwag b Sarandeep Singh 14, Utpal Chatterjee b Bhandari 11, Laxmi Ratan Shukla lbw Sanghvi 18, Jay Chandra not out 3, Zaven Zaman c Dahiya b Sarandeep Singh 7. Extras: lb 3, w 3, nb 2 8. Total: all out in 44.5 overs 166
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-45, 3-46, 4-54, 5-61, 6-87, 7-108, 8-155, 9-157
Bowling: Robin Singh jr 9-3-36-1, Bandari 10-3-15-3, Jadeja 8-0-38-2, Sanghvi 10-0-33-1, Sarandeep Singh 7.5-1-41-3

North Zone: Ashu Dani lbw Shukla 27, Vikram Rathour c Parida b Raul 70, Ajay Jadeja c Karim b Jaychandra 13, Pankaj Dharmani not out 25, Virendra Sehwag not out 16. Extra lb 5, w 9, nb 2: 16. Total: for three wickets, in 31.3 overs 167
Fall of wicekts: 1-45, 2-90, 3-138
Bowling: Shukla 8-0-37-1, Zaman 9-1-42-0, Jaychandra 6-1-35-1, Raul 4.3-0-23-1, Chatterjee 2-0-14-0, Gavaskar 2-0-11-0.

Bizarre Jadeja drama continues

NEW DELHI: Ajay Jadeja played in the Deodhar Trophy championship match against the East Zone at Baroda on Saturday, despite the convenor of the North Zone selection committee, Sunil Dev, repeating today what he had said yesterday: 8220;He should not be playing as he is not eligible to do so.8221; His own state unit, the Delhi and District Cricket Association8217;s vice-president, former Test player Chetan Chauhan had this to say: 8220;Our association had no objection to Jadeja8217;s playing and we gave our consent to selector Madan Lal on his inclusion in the team. We also conveyed to the Board our decision.8221; Sunil Dev is the sports secretary of the DDCA and when Chetan was reminded of this fact that their own man had raised the objection and had also said that the other state units too had protested, his reaction was: 8220;We could not trace Sunil Dev yesterday.8221;

In this story of bizare and mindless intrigues, it appears that Madan Lal contacted all the North Zone state units and majority of them, conveyed to him their consent on Jadeja8217;s inclusion.

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