MUMBAI, NOV 17: Mumbai off-spinner Aziz Sheikh's five-wicket haul restricted Saurashtra's surge in the West Zone under-19 Cooch-Behar league match at the Brabourne Stadium here today. Put into bat, Saurashtra were served well by 82-run opening stand between Prashant Joshi (69: 212b, 7x4) and Sandeep Dharajiya (56: 95b, 11x4). But Sheikh's snatched the initiative and Saurashtra had to be content with 207 for eight on the board at close of the opening day's play.Mumbai, with 9 points in their kitty are desperately seeking an outright victory to make the knockout grade. Gujarat (21) has already qualified leaving, Maharashtra (13 points), Saurashtra (13), Mumbai and Vadodara (8) to slug it out for the remaining second spot.
Brief scores: Saurashtra 207-8 (P Joshi 69, S Dharajiya 56, Nikhil Rathod 29; A Sheikh 5-47) vs Mumbai.
Vadodara well-set
PUNE: Vadodara upset Maharashtra's calculations while cruising to an impressive 280 for six at stumps on the first day of the three-day CoochBehar Trophy under-19 cricket match at Deccan Gymkhana today.
Thanks to an unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 72 between Shekhar Joshi (36: 65b, 2x4, 3x6) and Imran Phatan (45: 98b, 5x4, 1x6) the underdogs, out of contention for a place in the knockout, now threaten the hosts' hopes of making the grade.
Earlier, Hrishikesh Parab's impressive 95 (157b, 198m, 14x4) had laid the foundations after a middle-order collapse.
Brief Scores: Vadodara 280-6 in 92 overs (Hrishikesh Parab 95; Jitendra Singh 40; Imran Phatan batting 45, Shekhar Joshi batting 36; Kashinath Khadkikar 2-92) vs Maharashtra.
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