da lvbet: A fine century by Rajeev Uniyal, followed by splendid bowling byYogesh Sachdeva and Vivek Khurana helped Delhi beat Himachal Pradeshby 24 runs after being forced to follow on the last day of the NorthZone Cooch Behar (Under-19) tournament at the
Amarnath Gaur21-Oct-2000A fine century by Rajeev Uniyal, followed by splendid bowling byYogesh Sachdeva and Vivek Khurana helped Delhi beat Himachal Pradeshby 24 runs after being forced to follow on the last day of the NorthZone Cooch Behar (Under-19) tournament at the Ferozshah Kotla Groundin New Delhi on Thursday. Delhi, who got eight points from this matchnext play Jammu & Kashmir at Jammu from Oct 22 to 24.Delhi were 246 for two overnight. Uniyal who was on 90 when he resumedduly completed his century. Shortly afterwards, he was out afterbatting 150 minutes. He faced 121 balls and hit eleven fours and asix. TT Dilip scored a fine 88 off 101 balls with the help of eightfours. Uniyal and Dilip added 129 runs for the third wicket off 22.5overs. Yashpal Singh slammed a breezy 33 off 32 balls and Delhi wereable to declare at 368 for nine, compiled off only 65 overs. ParasDogra with four for 80 was the most successful bowler.Delhi thus turned a first innings deficit of 160 into an overall leadof 208. Hemant Dogra, coming in at No three, hit a fine 58 to keepalive Himachal’s hopes of reaching the victory target. His youngerbrother Paras Dogra contributed 29. But the remaining batsmensuccumbed meekly to Yogesh Sachdeva (4 for 44) and Vivek Khurana (4for 63) and the side were all out for 184 in 49.5 overs.