da brdice： East Zone, helped by a fine unbeaten 112 by PJ Das, defeated SouthZone by six wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (under-16) tournamentat the KL Saini Stadium in Jaipur on Tuesday
01-Feb-2000East Zone, helped by a fine unbeaten 112 by PJ Das, defeated SouthZone by six wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (under-16) tournamentat the KL Saini Stadium in Jaipur on Tuesday. This was East Zone’ssecond successive victory in the competition.Replying to South Zone’s total of 253 for eight in 50 overs, East madea disastrous start losing both the openers with only eight runsscored. But a 165-run third wicket partnership off 28.2 overs betweenDas and S Paul (70) steered them out of trouble. While Paul faced 95balls and hit six fours, Das faced 120 balls and hit eleven fours anda six. Das and A Nandi (20) then took East Zone close to the targetwith a fourth wicket stand of 49 runs off 9.4 overs. East finallycoasted home with 5.2 overs to spare. This was South Zone’s secondstraight defeat in two days.Earlier, DS Chougule who scored 107, helped South Zone to post achallenging total. Chougule scored his runs off 111 balls with thehelp of 11 boundaries. He was concerned in two fruitfulpartnerships. With opener AT Rayudu (50 off 89 balls with two fours)he added 100 runs for the second wicket off 21.3 overs. Then with ASrikkanth (36 off 45 balls with two fours and a six), Chougule put on63 runs for the fourth wicket off 12 overs.