Jadeja lords over West

Jadeja lords over West
SANDEEP DWIVEDI

RAJKOT, JANUARY 19: It was like watching a B-grade Bollywood action flick. Cast full of strugglers, a know-all lead star, a tragic hero, breathtaking stunts but a yawning monotony due to a stale storyline. North Zone's 29-run win over West Zone in the Deodhar Trophy match here was the another near-600 affair on a flat stage which saw the batsman getting all the punchline.

The day also had Ajay Jadeja showcasing his suspect arm in manner which could have given Mr Midas a complex. His 91 off 90 balls saw North Zone score a 312 and later proved his ``can't throw'' critics wrong by two darting hurls which accounted for West Zone's top two run scorers Vinod Kambli and Amol Muzumdar. An additional attachment to the OK fitness certificate was his tidy spell of nine overs and wicket as bonus.

This `Fly me to Australia' show by Jadeja meant West Zone despite Vinod Kambli's `Consider me too' 106 managed 283-9 at the end of 50 overs.

Scoreboard

North Zone: Ashu Dani run out (Kambli) 9 (12b 18m, 1x4),Vikram Rathour c Kulkarni b Siddique 33 (37b, 69m, 4x4), Ajay Jadeja c Mongia b Khan 91 (90b, 115m, 10x6, 1x6), Pankaj Dharmani c Parsana b Khan 70 (94b, 134m, 5x4, 1x6), Virendra Sehwag run out (Khan) 66 (39b, 46m, 7x4, 3x6), Dinesh Mongia c Kale b Mhambrey 11 (11b, 13m, 1x4), Mithun Minhas b Kulkarni 9 (9b, 12m), Sarandeep Singh run out (Parsana) 5 (9b, 9b), Amit Bhandari not out 4 (3b, 2m), Rahul Sanghvi not out 1 (5b, 3m); Extras: (2lb, 5nb, 6w) 13. Total: (for eight wickets in 50 overs) 312
Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Dani), 2-74 (Rathore), 3-172 (Jadeja), 4-266 (Sehwaag), 5-274 (Mongia), 6-274 (Dharmani), 7-305 (Minhas), 8-309 (Sarandeep)
Bowling: Mhambrey 10-0-59-1 (1w, 1nb), Khan 10-0-54-2 (3w, 4nb), Siddiqui 10-0-68-1, Kulkarni 10-0-56-1, Parsana 10-0-73-0 (3w).

West Zone: Wasim Jaffer c Rathour b Robin Jr 21 (20b, 20m, 3x4), Sitanshu Kotak run out (Bhandari) 28 (44b, 95m, 3x4), Vinod Kambli run out (Jadeja) 106 (131b, 160m, 12x4), Amol Muzumdar run out (Jadeja) 42(50b, 68m, 2x4, 1x6), Hitesh Parsana c Sarandeep b Robin Jr 3 (5b, 8m), Abhijit Kale c Sehwag b Sanghvi 20 (16b, 18m, 2x4), Zaheer Khan b Robin Jr 1 (2b, 3m), Nayan Mongia not out 29 (29b, 31m, 2x4), Paras Mhambrey c Rathour b Sanghvi 12 (4b, 8m, 1x4, 1x6), Iqbal Siddiqui lbw Jadeja 2 (3b, 3m), Nilesh Kulkarni not out 8 (7b, 8m, 1x4); Extras: (4lb, 5nb, 2w) 11. Total: (for nine wickets in 50 overs) 283.
Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Jaffer), 2-115 (Kotak), 3-198 (Muzumdar), 4-204 (Parsana), 5-211 (Kambli), 6-219 (Zaheer), 7-230 (Kale), 8-258 (Mhambrey), 9-265 (Siddiqui)
Bowling: Robin Jr 10-0-53-3, Bhandari 9-0-59-0 (2w, 3nb), Jadeja 9-0-56-1 (1nb), Sarandeep 10-0-38-0 (1nb), Sanghvi 8-0-46-2, Sehwag 4-0-27-0.