Deodhar Trophy: East Zone rides on Parag’s ton and Mura Singh’s five-for to beat West Zone
The Hindu
East Zone rides on Parag’s unbeaten ton and Mura Singh’s five-for to trounce West Zone
Riyan Parag’s century and Mani Shankar Mura Singh’s five-for helped East Zone defeat West Zone by 157 runs in the fifth-round match of the Deodhar Trophy played at CAP 2 ground here on Tuesday.
Mura Singh ran through the top-order in his opening spell to completely push West on the back-foot after Parag scored an unbeaten 102 off 68.
Opting to bat first, East openers Abhimanyu Easwaran and Utkarsh Singh found boundaries regularly in PowerPlay before the former got caught behind off Arzan Nagwaswalla.
Utkarsh and number three Virat added 64 for the second wicket before left-arm spinner Shams Mulani got three as East lost four wickets in quick succession.
Parag walked into bat at number six and along with Kumar Kushagra added 150 runs in next 106 balls for the sixth wicket.
Running between the wickets was the highlight of the partnership. Parag scored his first boundary after facing 26 balls.
Kushagra too began coming down the track to find quick runs and smack four sixes as he ended up getting 53 off 47 balls.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.