da wazamba： Hyderabad’s opening bowler Ghouse Baba had the Kerala batsmen on therun on the second day of their KSCA Coca Cola Trophy (under-25) matchin Bangalore on Monday
Partab Ramchand02-Oct-2000Hyderabad’s opening bowler Ghouse Baba had the Kerala batsmen on therun on the second day of their KSCA Coca Cola Trophy (under-25) matchin Bangalore on Monday. Put in to bat, Kerala struggled to score 146for nine off 62 overs.Rain had washed out the opening day’s play yesterday. Today too therewas a delayed start and Kerala were on the back foot from the openingover when Ghouse Baba had CM Deepak leg before for a duck with hissecond ball. In his next over, Ghouse Baba had the other opener CSanju caught by wicketkeeper S Rohit for one. This was the first offour catches by Rohit. He latched on to his second when Krishna Kumaredged Ghouse Baba. That was Ghouse Baba’s third wicket in his firstthree overs.From 12 for three, Kerala started a slow recovery. First, SM Samith(49) and Vinan G Nair (30) added 43 runs for the fourth wicket off 12overs. Then Ghouse Baba struck again by dismissing Nair, Ramakrishna(4) and CM Shyam. Kerala were now 64 for six and Ghouse Baba had takenall the wickets.The second phase of the recovery was effected by the patient Samithand Shaju (42) who added 66 runs for the seventh wicket off 31 overs.Shaju dominated the partnership and hit five fours and a six. Hebatted two hours and faced 100 balls. Samith’s vigil of 216 minutescame to an end when he was out for 49. He faced 147 balls and hitthree boundaries. Ghouse Baba took his seventh wicket shortly beforeclose. He ended the day with the excellent figures of 24-8-55-7.