da 888： Madhya Pradesh denied Tripura a place in the CoochBehar Trophy final, batting through the whole ofthe last day in their semi final match at DeccanGymkhana, Pune
Santhosh S11-Dec-2000Madhya Pradesh denied Tripura a place in the CoochBehar Trophy final, batting through the whole ofthe last day in their semi final match at DeccanGymkhana, Pune. MP sealed their place in the finalby the virtue of the 16 runs first innings leadover Tripura. MP deciding to go for battingpractice were 391/5 at the end of the last day’splay on Monday.Maninder Singh scored an unbeaten 103 on a daywhen MP was keen on batting through. Earlier inthe day Mohnish Mishra was dismissed for 35 in the29th over by T Shah. Mishra hammered two sixes andtwo fours in his stay at the crease for 55 balls.That followed a 82 runs partnership betweencaptain Sachin Dholepure and Nitin Menon. JDebnath had Menon LBW for 40 (3 fours) reducing MPto 167/3. At 187 Dholepure was caught behind offthe bowling of T Shah for a well made 81.Dholepure hit 6 fours in 203 balls he faced in 224minutes. Maninder Singh and Jatin Saxena smashedthe Tripura bowling to score 193 runs in 35.2overs. Maninder went on to score his hundred (103not out) including 13 strokes to the ropes. Saxenawas unlucky to miss out on his hundred to bedimissed at 92. Saxena’s free scoring inningslasted 102 balls as he belted a dozen balls pastthe boundary. Sami A Khan came out to bat at thefall of Saxena and blasted a six in the two ballshe faced. For Tripura T Shah had a long bowl tofinish with 40-5-133-3. It augurs well for MP astheir batting came good in the second innings forthey would be meeting an upbeat Haryana in thefinal. Tripura’s campaign has been a successfulone too. It is remarkable that they went all theway to the semi finals and shows how well juniorcricket has picked up in that part of the country