da winzada777： Delhi’s new recruit off-spinner Sarandeep Singh spun magic, grabbingsix wickets, to send Services crashing to an innings and 23 run defeatin the North Zone Ranji Trophy League Match at the Palam Ground heretoday
da pinnacle： Staff Reporter04-Nov-2001Delhi’s new recruit off-spinner Sarandeep Singh spun magic, grabbingsix wickets, to send Services crashing to an innings and 23 run defeatin the North Zone Ranji Trophy League Match at the Palam Ground heretoday.Requiring 170 runs to make Delhi bat again after they made 297 in thefirst innings and followed-on., Services were bundled out for 147 onthe last day. Delhi had scored 467 for five declared in their firstinnings. Unlike in the first three days, the Delhi spinners receivedassistance from the pitch, which had developed cracks and the servicesbatting except Yashpal Singh were bedazzled by the zip, turn, andbounce extracted by Sarandeep, Abishek Sharma and Rahul Sanghvi.Yashpal Singh, who hit 83 facing 182 balls with nine hits to theboundary, was the only one to show some resistance, as seven of hiscolleagues returned with single digits scored.Delhi were bang on target from the very beginning as the bowlersbowled according to the attacking field set by skipper Mithun Manhas.The strategy yielded reward in the seventh over when seamer AmitBandhari trapped opener NP Singh in front of the wicket. Services losttwo more quick wickets as Sarandeep send back Jasveer Singh (2) andPMS Reddy (13) in the space of twelve balls to leave Services reelingat 27 for 3. The offie then struck the crucial blow in the 24th overwhen he rattled the stumps of services skipper Sanjay Verma whoattempted a mighty heave over long-on, bringing Yashpal Singh to thecrease.Yashpal Singh straight away counter-attacked and played some lustyshots to shrug off the early losses and grafted 49 runs with SarabjeetSingh for the fifth wicket. The resistance however was shortlived asSarabjeet Singh edged one to first slip to give young Abishek Sharmahis maiden wicket in first class cricket. Yashpal Singh got nosupport from the other batsmen and with Sarandeep claiming three morevictims the procession towards the pavilion hastened.At 127 for nine, Yashpal Singh went for the big shots in an effort tomake Delhi bat again. He perished in the process, castled byBandhari.
