da leao： New Zealand Academy had the better of the exchanges on the opening dayof their Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal against Tamil Nadu Districts atthe MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today
Sankhya Krishnan16-Aug-2000New Zealand Academy had the better of the exchanges on the opening dayof their Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal against Tamil Nadu Districts atthe MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today. After inserting theDistricts side and rolling them over for 159 inside 78 overs, the NZAside had progressed to 34/1 at stumps.Left arm spinner Bruce Martin and leg spinner Aaron Redmond did mostof the damage with three wickets apiece. For Districts the firstwicket association of 40 between KN Riaz (24) and V Gautham (28)remained the most productive and after NZA captain, Jacob Oramdismissed the former in the 17th over of the innings, the last ninewickets tumbled for 119. P Muthupandian was the top scorer with 30 (66balls, 1 four).For the visitors, their only international bowler Andrew Penn, wasalso the only one of six bowlers used who went wicketless. SeamerDevendra Kumar despatched opener JAH Marshall for seven in the seventhover of NZA’s reply but Michael Papps (13) and Jarrod Englefield (12)ferried the visitors safely through to stumps.