da casino： Indian Airlines face an extremely difficult task on the morrow afterclosing out the second day of their MRF-Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal at23/1 in reply to MAC-TNCA’s imposing 459/7 declared
da 888casino： Sankhya Krishnan21-Aug-2000Indian Airlines face an extremely difficult task on the morrow afterclosing out the second day of their MRF-Buchi Babu pre-quarterfinal at23/1 in reply to MAC-TNCA’s imposing 459/7 declared. India ‘A’ openerJ Arun Kumar survived 51 minutes before being dismissed by legspinnerBalaji Rao for 14 in what turned out to be the penultimate over of theday.Play was suspended at 4.34 PM due to bad light and called off at 5.00pm since the light had not improved. Manish Sharma and VVS Laxman heldout until close but Airlines are still 436 runs adrift. If they do batout the whole day tomorrow, it is unlikely they would have overhauledMAC-TNCA’s first innings total.In that eventuality the winner will be decided on run quotient (numberof runs scored divided by number of wickets lost). MAC-TNCA’s runquotient presently stands at 65.57. For Airlines the responsibilityrests heavily on the shoulders of Laxman, Sharma, Ravneet Ricky andVijay Dahiya.In the morning play started 105 minutes behind schedule due toovernight rains having dampened the outfield. Indeed only 69 overswere bowled during the whole day. Resuming at 314/4 at the CPT-IndiaPistons ground here in Chennai, MAC-TNCA lost Sharath for 124 (191balls, 16 fours, 1 six) when he edged Dodda Ganesh into the waitinggloves of wicketkeeper captain Dahiya.The fifth wicket partnership between Sharath and Robin Singh hadswelled to 89 when the mishap occurred. Robin merrily proceeded to 73(127 balls, 6 fours), adding another 64 with Gokulakrishna before hefell to Haryana off spinner Ishan Ganda. Gokulakrishna, brother ofyesterday’s centurion Madanagopal finished on an unbeaten 46 as MAC-TNCA called it quits in the 139th over.Incidentally there were another pair of brothers on the field – thetwo umpires K Srinivasan and K Bharathan. For Airlines Murali Kartiktoiled long and hard to collect returns of 2/141 from 46 overs whileGanesh, Ganda and Chaudhury took a wicket apiece.
