Ninth-wicket stand rescues Springfield

MUMBAI, DEC 27: A fighting 62-run partnership for the ninth wicket between Ashish Gupta 41: 42b, 4x4, 2x6 and Santosh Agrahari 29: 64b...

MUMBAI, DEC 27: A fighting 62-run partnership for the ninth wicket between Ashish Gupta 41: 42b, 4215;4, 2215;6 and Santosh Agrahari 29: 64b, 5215;4 rescued Rizvi Springfield from the dumps at the Elf-Vengsarkar Academy ground here on Monday. Being reduced to 147-8, the ninth-wicket pair reached a respectable score of 226 against IES VN Sule Guruji on day one of the four-day Harris Shield Inter-School Cricket Tournament final.

And when stumps were drawn for the day Rizvi did well to claimed both Sule Guruji openers Swapnoj Thakur 1 and Vishal Tivrekar 15 for 30.

Earlier, medium-pacer Hrishikesh Puranik 4-47 had justified Sule Guruji captain Vinit Indulkar8217;s decision to put the opposition in after winning the toss. With the side reeling at 4-33, Pankaj Ojha 32: 44b, 6215;4 and Rakesh Kanojiya 36: 50b, 9215;4 stemmed the slide to a certain extent with their 52-run association. But once the partnership was broken, Rizvi8217;s plunge continued until Gupta and Agrahari retrieved the situation.

Sule Guruji werepenalised eight runs for falling short of the over-rate by one resulting in the Rizvi total swelling from 218 to 226.

Scoreboard

Rizvi Springfield 1st innings: Deepak Jaiswal c Amladi b Puranik 10, Ajay Bhatt lbw Puranik 14, Ashish Srivastav c Bhatt b Pathaniya 0, Yogesh Rajput c Dharankar b Puranik 14, Shudhanshu Mishra c Dharankar b Puranik 5, Pankaj Ojha c Tivrekar b Pathaniya 32, Rakesh Kanojiya b Amladi 36, Arif Sunasra b Amladi 5, Ashish Gupta run out Dharankar 41, Santosh Agarhari not out 29, Amit Yadav lbw Amladi 0; Extras: 1b, 5lb, 3nb, 23w 32. Total: all out in 54.1 overs; inclusive of eight penalty runs 226.
Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-29, 3-29, 4-33, 5-85, 6-105, 7-130, 8-147, 9-209, 10-218.
Bowling: Adish Pathaniya 12-0-48-2, Hrishikesh Puranik 10-1-47-4, Markesh Bhatt 8-1-27-0, Rohan Amladi 14.1-3-35-3, Shaunak Gupte 5-0-35-0, Kinjal Patel 5-1-19-0
IES VN Sule Guruji 1st innings: Swapnoj Thakur c Bhatt b Gupta 1, Vishal Tivrekar lbw bAgarhari 15, Vinit Indulkar batting 2, Adish Pathaniya batting 2; Extras: 3nb, 7w 10. Total: for two wickets in 12 overs 30Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-28
Bowling: Ashish Gupta 5-0-14-1, Amit Yadav 4-0-9-0, Santosh Agrahari 2-1-7-1, Arif Sunasra 1-1-0-0.