da pinup bet: South Zone took the bowling honours on the opening day of their CK NayuduTrophy Semifinal amtch against West Zone at the Sunshine ground in Cuttackon Wednesday
da doce: Staff Reporter24-Jan-2001South Zone took the bowling honours on the opening day of their CK NayuduTrophy Semifinal amtch against West Zone at the Sunshine ground in Cuttackon Wednesday. After bundling out West for just 194, South Zone proceeded tolose three quick wickets to end the day at 53 for 3.Electing to bat, West made a solid start with openers JN Saha (41) and BJoshi (37) adding 72 runs in 19.1 overs. But the fall of Joshi triggered acollapse and the innings folded up in the 70th over of the innings. Only YTakowle (43) made any significant contribution. The wickets were shared byall around with Tamil Nadu medium pacer L Balaji (3 for 51) and Mohd Faiq(3 for 29) being the pick.South Zone in response made a shaky start losing TS Suman (4) off the thirdball of the innings, bowled by Kulkarni. Deepak Chougule (1) was the nextto be dismissed in the third over of the innings. Chougule was bowled byUday Kulkarni. Then Tahir Hussain and Arjun Yadav (29 batting) took thescore on to 46 when Tahir was caught by Kulkarni off S Yadav. Therafter,Arjun and ASK Varma (1 batting) took the team to stumps.






