da bet7k： East Zone were on their way to a comfortable victory over Combined XIwhen the rain came down, ruling out any further play
da roleta： Staff Reporter29-Jun-2001East Zone were on their way to a comfortable victory over Combined XIwhen the rain came down, ruling out any further play. East Zone werethus declared winners on better run rate in the group A match of theinter-academy cricket tournament for the Col Hemu Adhikari Trophy inBangalore on Friday. East Zone were all out for 301 in 49.5 overs andthe Combined team were 215 for four off 47.3 overs when rain stoppedplay at 4.04 pm. Play was called off at 4.45 pm. With their secondsuccessive victory in the group (they had beaten South Zone onThursday), East Zone qualified for the final, in which they will meetWest Zone on Monday.A splendid 109 by opening batsman and wicketkeeper R Jaiswal was thehighlight of the game. Electing to bat, East Zone were given a goodstart with Jaiswal and S Biswal (53) adding 124 runs for the secondwicket off 22 overs. Jaiswal who faced 116 balls hit eleven fours andwas sixth out at 239. Valuable contributions in the middle order fromskipper M Diwakar (37) and R Banik (30) helped East Zone to top the300-run mark.Far from being overawed by the imposing total, Combined XI openers SMDholpure (60) and HTS Rao (46) put on 107 runs off 22.4 overs. Thenafter three wickets had gone down for 124, Ajith Singh (30) and SushilKumar (44 not out) added 54 runs for the fourth wicket off 13.3 overs.By this time, Combined XI had fallen behind on the required run rateand the match was virtually decided when rain halted play.
