Skipper Kale hits double century

He was reprieved once on 215 as a full-blooded straight drive crashed into bowler Amrish Kotecha8217;s hand and popped out, but four runs later, Kevin Desai made no mistake at deep mid-wicket, latching on to a lofted sweep off the same bowler.

Scoreboard

Maharashtra 1st innings, overnight 288-2:Niranjan Godbole c Vijay Patel b Lalit Patel 1673m, 42b, 1215;4, Surendra Bhave b Lalit Patel 13 36m, 34b, 2215;4, Abhijit Kale c Desai b Kotecha 219 509m, 406b, 23215;4, 1215;6, Shantanu Sugwekar c Vijay Patel b Majmudar 137 346m, 259b, 15215;4, Kaushik Aphale st Pathik Patel b Kotecha 43 98m, 65b, 3215;4, Sagar Shah not out 26 64m, 48b, 1215;4, Satyen Lande run out 1 4m, 3b, Iqbal Siddiqui c Padia b Desai 15 15m, 17b, 2215;4, Parag Sahane not out 8 14m, 11b. Extras: 23 b12, lb4, w1, nb6.
Total for 7 wkts decl in 146.2 overs: 501.
Fall of wickets: 1-25 Bhave, 2-51 Godbole, 3-337 Sugwekar, 4-439 Aphale, 5-464 Kale, 6-468 Lande, 7-488 Siddiqui.
Bowling: Majmudar 25-4-81-1, Lalit Patel 20-3-83-2, Sheth 11-2-34-0, Mehta 40-6-111-0, Desai 22-3-78-1, Varsani 12-2-32-0, Damani 2-0-10-0, Kotecha 14.2-1-56-2.

Gujarat 1st innings: Amrish Kotecha batting 30 131m, 95b, 3215;4, Mihir Sheth batting 32 131m, 97b, 4215;4. Extras: 2 lb2.
Total for no loss in 32 overs 64
Bowling:Siddiqui 12-4-34-0,Kulkarni 7-1-21-0, Lande 8-7-1-0, Sane 5-2-6-0.