da 888casino: Himachal Pradesh shocked Haryana by two wickets in a thrilling contestat the Luhnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur, in the North Zone Under-22Tournament on Monday
Santhosh S18-Dec-2000Himachal Pradesh shocked Haryana by two wickets in a thrilling contestat the Luhnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur, in the North Zone Under-22Tournament on Monday. In a low scoring match wickets kept tumbling andas many as 38 wickets fell in 3 days.Electing to bat first after winning the toss, Haryana made a poorstart and continued in the same order to be bowled out for 168 in 66.4overs. Opening batsman Parveen Sharma with 35 (5 fours) top scored forHaryana. SP Singh with 3/55 was the most successful of the bowlers. HPin their first innings made 210 all out in 60 overs. Opening batsman HAngrish played brilliantly to make 64 before he was run out. Angrishhit six boundaries in his innings. Parveen with 35 gave Angrish goodsupport for the fourth wicket adding 63 runs. Deepak Sain with 6/85led the Haryana bowling admirably.Haryana did not do any better in their second innings as they foundthemselves bowled out for 152 in 57.4 overs. Manoj Yadav with 68including 7 fours tried to put up a fight against some potent HPbowling. Shavinder Pal Singh 4/40 was easily the best of the bowlers.Requiring 111 runs to win HP made heavy weather of their task. DeepakSen 5/43 and Anuj Sharma 3/50 carried the burden of bowling out HP fora low score. They came so close by picking up eight wickets as HPreached their goal with certain amount of difficulty. HP had allreasons to clebrate an almost impossible victory. Captain YashvinderSingh top scored with 20 for HP. There were some useful contributionsby Parveen (19) and Hemant dogra (18). HP took all eight points toHaryana’s none.