da fazobetai： Predictably enough, Delhi entered the semifinals of the Cooch BeharTrophy at Jamshedpur on Friday
Partab Ramchand10-Dec-1999Predictably enough, Delhi entered the semifinals of the Cooch BeharTrophy at Jamshedpur on Friday. They were already in a commandingposition at stumps on the second day and the only interest was whetherthey would translate their superiority into an outrightvictory. However Gujarat put up an improved show in their secondinnings and made sure that Delhi would qualify for the penultimateround only on their first innings lead of 207 runs.Resuming at 341 for eight, Delhi were all out for 376 in their firstinnings. KD Desai finished with six wickets for 107 runs from 46.5overs. In their second innings, Gujarat lost half the side for 92 runsbut a sixth wicket stand of 56 runs between KD Desai (57, 104 balls,eight fours) and BD Thaker (29 not out) helped them reach 185 forseven when stumps were finally drawn. AK Suman and Suhail Sharma tookthree wickets each.