da betano casino： The touring England under-19s had nothing to cheer about at the end of thefirst day’s play in the warm-up match against South Zone under-19s, playedat Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai on Monday
Santhosh S15-Jan-2001The touring England under-19s had nothing to cheer about at the end of thefirst day’s play in the warm-up match against South Zone under-19s, playedat Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai on Monday. The touring party tookthis as an opportunity to give some of their boys a go. Ample reasons whyone felt that the focus was not there. For most of the day, the bowling waspedestrian and the fielding a let down. Dropped catches and fielding lapsesmight be a cause of worry for The Management, given the fact that they haveto start playing their second ‘Test’ against India this weekend. South Zonecolts also did not give good account of themselves; their batting neverreally bloomed on a harmless track.The setting was perfect, clear blue skies, brilliant sunshine and theground looking pretty with all the trees around. Electing to bat firstafter winning the toss South Zone opening batsman Tirumal Setti Suman took10 runs off the very first over bowled by Chris Tremlett; two boundariesflying over the slip fielders into the third-man fence. Suman did no favorto Nadeem Malik smashing him for three boundaries in the fourth over of theday. The fifth over brought some joy to the English colts, when Tremletthad Shashank Nag caught behind by Mark Wallace for just two runs.31/1 and Malik’s third over also saw Suman striking three boundaries, anexplosive start indeed. Kyle Hogg was brought in from the pavilion end toreplace the expensive Malik and immediately found his rhythm. Monty Panesardropped Suman off the bowling of Hogg, but could not make most of it. Hoggsoon had Suman caught and bowled, the ball bouncing more than the batsmanexpected and all he could do was to pop the ball back to the bowler for aneasy catch. Suman’s entertaining innings of 42 came off just 34 balls,which included 9 strokes past the ropes.The fall of Suman brought Deepak Chougule to the crease. Chougule was thetoast of the day for South Zone scoring 97 runs off 179 balls. Chougule whois short in stature and does not have the height of many of the Englishplayers, stood tall on a day when South batsman failed to apply themselves.The batting was ineffective on a docile pitch, which had nothing to offerto the bowlers.Chougule holds the junior world record for the maximum runs scored in aday, 400 not out against Goa in the 1996/97 season, playing for KarnatakaUnder-13. Chougule kept working hard as batsmen at the other end keptfalling. South Zone lost two more wickets before lunch. Ian Pattisonremoved captain Arjun Yadav for 10 caught brilliantly by Kadeer Ali atpoint. The next ball saw the new batsman ASK Varma dropped by John Sadlerat slip. Pattison had reasons to rejoice his second wicket when RobertFerley took a good catch in the covers to dismiss Varma for just one.English colts were in a strong position after reducing the hosts to 62/4.The new batsman Vijay Sai Suri was distinctly lucky early on to survive avociferous appeal for LBW off the bowling of Pattison, without offering astroke. The visitors let the game drift on for a while and the lunchtimescore was 129/4 in 38 overs. Chougule took his own time and was unbeaten on 50.The post lunch session started on a sad note for the visitors. Chougule wasdropped twice on 52;Gordon Muchall dropped him at point and John Sadler floored a chance in theslips. Chougule and Suri put on 134 for the fifth wicket as English coltsrelied on medium pacers. The 22nd over after lunch saw the introduction ofleft arm spin of Ferley. Success followed immediately as Ferley dismissedSuri, caught by Nicky Peng running to the leg-slip from the first slip asthe batsman top edged a sweep shot. Suri made 44 off 136 balls with fiveboundaries. A little before Tea break Chougule was deceived by the guilesof Panesar, drawing the batsman forward and getting the ball to turn andkiss the edge of the bat, Peng gleefully accepted the catch at first slip.Chougule was at the crease for 238 minutes facing 179 balls, striking 12boundaries in his innings of 97.211 for 6 at Tea, England failed to force the issue. Ferley who impressedwith his spin bowling had Mohd Faiq caught by Kadeer Ali at silly point for23 in the 82nd over. The second new ball was taken in the 83rd over andthere was no success at all. Malik who had a miserable spell with the firstnew ball came back with the second, picking up the wicket of Taher Hussaincaught by substitute fielder Justin Bishop for 26. At close of play SouthZone were 275/8 with Steve Lazarus and Shankara Rao on 15 and 5respectively. Pattison and Ferley shared the bowling honours with a coupleof wickets apiece.