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This is an archive article published on November 10, 2002

Ranji: Railways bogged down on slippery track

SCOREBOARD Railways 1st Innings: S Khanolkar c Abhishek Sharma b Sarandeep Singh 68; A Pagnis c Daihy...

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SCOREBOARD
Railways 1st Innings: S Khanolkar c Abhishek Sharma b Sarandeep Singh 68; A Pagnis c Daihya b Arun Singh 1; Abhay Sharma injured 1; T P Singh b Kuldeep Rawat 6; Yere Goud c and b R Sanghvi 15; Jacob Martin c Bhandari b Arun Singh 56; Raja Ali c M Manhas b Abhishek Sharma 25; Zakir Hussain b Bhandari 9; Harvinder Singh batting 7; Santosh Saxena batting 0; Extras b1, lb5, nb6: 12; Total for 7 wkts: 200
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-20, 3-57, 4-121, 5-172, 6-183, 7-200; Bowling: Bhandari 15-4-19-1, Arun Singh 15-4-37-2, Kuldeep Rawat 15-5-40-1, R Sanghvi 16-2-43-1, Sarandeep Singh 15-3-38-1, Abhishek Sharma 8-1-17-1

IN OTHER MATCHES: At Hyderabad: Mumbai: 98 N P Singh 6-37. Hyderabad: 82-5; At Pune: Karnataka: 220-9 Tilak Naidu 61 vs Maharashtra; At Guwahati: Orissa: 304-7 B Mohapatra 107, P Mallick batting 92 vs Assam

The first day of the new Ranji Trophy season under a new format begain on an inauspicious note for defending champions Railways, who have been clubbed with Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Hyderabad, Bengal, Himachal and Andhra in Group A of the Elite Division.

Railways lost the toss, lost their skipper Abhay Sharma for the rest of the game through injury x-ray revealed hairline fracture on the left hand little finger and has been ruled out for the rest of the match and finished the first day of their four-day match against Delhi on 200 for 7 when poor visibility forced suspension of the game 10 minutes before the schedule time at the Ferozshah Kotla here today.

But for two 50-plus knocks from opener Shreyas Khanolkar 68: 9215;4, 198m and Jacob Martin 56: 7215;4, 213m, Railways8217; plight would have been worse. Khanolkar, a makeshift opener who scored a ton against the touring West Indians at Pune last month, put on 64 runs for the fourth wicket while Martin added a further 51 for the fifth wicket with Raja Ali 25: 2215;4,1215;6,91m.

 

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