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Ranji One Day 2004-05 : North Zone: Punjab Vs
Haryana |
Jan 9th, 2005:
A young Haryana side led by a very young Ajay
Ratra took on the big bulls Punjab led by Dinesh
Mongia at Una. Punjab had all their
International stars playing for them in this
game including Harbhajan and Yuvraj Singh.
Mongia won the toss and put Haryana to bat
first. Haryana’s opening batsman Bagheswar Bist
played the perfect sheet anchor’s role to help
his team post a decent 238/9. Bagheswar scored a
well compiled 70 from 106 balls with 4 fours and
1 six. All rounder Joginder Sharma fresh from
his Bangladesh experience dazzled with a
strokeful 38 which also had 1 six. For Punjab,
Sodhi with his medium pacers picked up 3 wickets
and Harbhajan went wicketless in his 7 overs
spell giving away 23 runs.
Punjab in their reply were in an embarrassing
position at 92 losing half of their side. Yuvraj
and Dinesh flopped, Sodhi managed to score a
patient 44. But Ravneet Ricky, who opens in the
longer version of the game stuck to his mission
and saw Punjab as the winners with his unbeaten
knock of 96. Ricky’s 96 had 5 fours and 4 sixes.
Harbhajan Singh played some vital strokes to
score 37 from just 31 balls with 2 sixes. It was
really a tight match as Punjab scraped through
with a 1-wicket win and with just 3 balls to
spare. Joginder Sharma bowled well for his 2/48
in the 9.3 overs he hurled.
Points:
Punjab: 4, Haryana:
0
Haryana 238/9 (Bagheshwar Bist 70,
Joginder Sharma 38, Reetinder Sodhi 3/36)
lost to Punjab 240/9 (Reetinder Sodhi 44
Ravneet Ricky 96*, Joginder Sharma 2/48) by 1
wicket
Full Scorecard
Haryana:
Chetan Sharma, Bagheshwar Bist, Sunny Singh,
Shafiq Khan, Ajay Ratra (C & WK), Joginder
Sharma, Mahesh Rawat, Sachin Rana, Amit Mishra,
Gaurav Vashisht, Jintendra Malik
Punjab:
Ishan Malhatra, Reetender Singh Sodhi, Yuvraj
Singh, Dinesh Mongia (C), Ravneet Singh Ricky,
Ankur Kakkar, Chandan Madan (WK), Harbhajan
Singh, Vipul Sharma, Gagandeep Singh, Vikram
Singh
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