Duleep Trophy 2011-12

[Old guy]

Now over to Rituraj and Bhuvnesh Kumar. With their swing' date=' they too would be tough to face.[/quote'] still anything under 150 is not good enough would back west to atleast get 200

[saneindian]

Abe West kahan hain? Don't insult East Zone :P Waise this being a 5 day match, enough time for central to recover in the 2nd innings but wont be easy against this bowling lineup.

[rkt.india]

Manish Vardhan has a funny technique.

[Show_stopper]

OK just a query, if indeed the guns were faulty...how fast was Dinda bowling vis-a-vis Shami? we know usually Dinda bowls around 135 kph and considerably faster when in rhythm.

[CG]

Central Zone v East Zone, Duleep Trophy final, Indore, 1st day Dinda, Shami Ahmed put East Zone on top East Zone 88 for 3 (Majumdar 46*, Sudhindra 2-25) trail Central Zone 133 (N Ojha 44, Dinda 4-29, Shami 4-73) by 45 runs Scorecard The season's top two run-getters, Robin Bist and Vineet Saxena, failed but the top two wicket-takers, Ashok Dinda and TP Sudhindra, did not. Dinda continued his outstanding form, taking his tally for the first-class season to 56 wickets, but it was little-known Shami Ahmed who surprised Central Zone with pace, zip and bounce as the hosts crumbled against relentless seam bowling. Sudhindra gave it back to East Zone with two strikes, but Anustup Majumdar ensured the visitors stayed on top. Fifteen wickets had fallen on this ground on the first day of the Ranji Trophy quarter-final between Madhya Pradesh and Mumbai in January. Thirteen wickets went down today. The similarities went further. Mohnish Mishra and Naman Ojha had steadied the innings in both games. Against Mumbai, Mishra had gone, Ojha had followed and Madhya Pradesh had collapsed. Today, Mishra went, Ojha followed and Central collapsed. The grass on the Holkar Stadium pitch is known to retain its bite for the first day, and East understandably chose to bowl. Central instantly got a sample of what was in store, Dinda hitting Ojha on the box off the fourth delivery of the game and forcing the batsman to go off the field. Saxena and Mohammad Kaif survived several close moments in the first hour. Dinda kept bouncing and seaming it in from short of a good length, the wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha taking most deliveries with his gloves pointing skywards. After a glut of plays-and-misses, lbw appeals and inside edges, Kaif was adjudged leg before when he shouldered arms to an incoming Dinda delivery. With Basant Mohanty's gentle medium-pace at one end, Dinda soon gave way to Shami, but there was to be no respite for Central. His run-up and delivery stride resembling Aqib Javed's, Shami bowled slightly fuller than Dinda had, but still found similar bounce and more seam movement. Saxena's block-or-leave policy lasted 48 deliveries and yielded three runs before Shami knocked his stumps out with a pitched-up delivery that came in. Ojha had recovered enough from the blow to come back at Saxena's fall, and the score slowly started to move. Ojha has the useful ability to softly guide good deliveries past the slip cordon, and that method brought him some boundaries. Mishra, who hardly holds back when he drives, slammed Shami straight down the ground through the bowler's hands. When they ended the first session only two wickets down, Central seemed to have got through the most difficult part of the day. After the break, Mohanty, whose run-up is as innocuous as his pace, got one to kick at Mishra, and Saha took the edge to end the partnership. In the next over, Shami got one to straighten and bounce at Ojha to give Saha another easy catch. When Bist flicked a harmless Shami delivery straight to square leg, Central were left reeling at 91 for 5. Mohanty now mustered up enough zip to uproot the last specialist batsman Parvinder Singh's stumps. Piyush Chawla tried to gather some quick runs through a mixture of slogs and a steer over the slip cordon but Dinda took no time to rip through the tail. Shami was unfortunate to be denied a deserved five-for with a couple of catches being dropped in the slips. There was nothing unfortunate about Central's capitulation, as the last eight wickets fell for 51 runs, 26 of those from Chawla's bat. Central's bowlers came out determined to make as much use of the live grass as East's had. Sudhindra, with whom accuracy is guaranteed, also found steep bounce, and bowled Manish Vardhan in his second over. Rajasthan's Ranji hero, Rituraj Singh, playing in place of the injured Pankaj Singh, produced a stunning first ball. He swung a full delivery sharply into Dheeraj Jadhav, who left the ball on angle, only to find it curving in to knock back off stump. Sudhindra had Ishank Jaggi lbw off an inside edge to make it 48 for 3, but Majumdar, as short but built slightly heavier than the wafer-thin Saha, kept pinging the off-side boundary with confident drives. The captain Chawla bowled both his overs with a sweeper cover and the East Zone batsmen happily took singles to that fielder. Shami's comment after stumps that he expected the pitch to help seam movement for the next two days should give Central some hope of making a comeback though.

[saneindian]

Shami looked quicker than Dinda and was moving the ball appreciably, beating the batsmen for pace quite often. Dinda himself was bowling quick, around 84-85 mph easily, wasn't hitting a consistent length early on but when he did that post lunch he was nearly unplayable.

[rkt.india]

OK just a query' date=' if indeed the guns were faulty...how fast was Dinda bowling vis-a-vis Shami? we know usually Dinda bowls around 135 kph and considerably faster when in rhythm.[/quote'] lot slower than Shami...was shown around 125-127K and even less some times.

[Number]

Shami Ahmed. 4 wickets :woot:

[Old guy]

east in gr8 position..should easily get lead and lead of 100 would put huge pressure with this bowling line up they should be able to win easily

[Magneto]

Anustup Majumdar - already the highest scorer for the day :woot: :dance:

[Old guy]

Anustup Majumdar - already the highest scorer for the day :woot: :dance:

want this guy in test team can play moving ball well and is good under pressure situations

[Magneto]

want this guy in test team can play moving ball well and is good under pressure situations

How were his shots? Has good stroke making skills?

[Old guy]

How were his shots? Has good stroke making skills?

don know i was studying as u can see i wasnt even on icf :P but this track was tough and isnt he the same guy who got 3 hundreds recently all under pressure? if not sorry :--D

[Show_stopper]

lot slower than Shami...was shown around 125-127K and even less some times.

If he is really 140+ with the outswing he is getting...he'll walk into most IPL teams. So lets see how he goes this IPL.

[Magneto]

don know i was studying as u can see i wasnt even on icf :P but this track was tough and isnt he the same guy who got 3 hundreds recently all under pressure? if not sorry :--D

Yeah yeah. Same guy. Batting mainstay of the East Zone as of now.

[Old guy]

Yeah yeah. Same guy. Batting mainstay of the East Zone as of now.

this wasnt easy wicket he always walks in pressure situation..bats with tail and always gets the lead maybe dhoni of tests? :nervous: would watch his batting tomorrow :two_thumbs_up:

[Magneto]

Shami has played only 5 FC matches with 13 wkts. Kudos to the people who select the zonal team to include him based on his potential. The guy is still less than 22 years.

Was the opening bowler for Bengal this season. So does come in when you choose the top 5 bowlers of the zone.

[CG]

We will win,Do not forget our trundler Basant mohanty contribution.

[MCcricket]

I have no doubt about the bad readings of these speed guns being used by NEO AND BCCI , 3 CATCHES WERE DROPPED ON SHAMI'S BOWLING, HE WOULDVE EASILY GOTTEN 6 TO 7 WICKETS.I do not understand the love and affinity for trundlers by our selectors, what this trophy re affirms is pace is ace, East will win the finals most probably, owing to their superior bowling.Zonal selections are quota based unfortunately, how else u have Mohanty in the team, watching Ranji is frustrating with 115 trundlers, Sandhu, Waigankar, Rituraj, Sudhindra lol, bits and pieces players being selected was the major reason for Englands poor team for 3 decades. There is enough talent in India for each state team to have atleast 2 if not 3 bowlers in each state team to bowl over 135 k, domestic cricket is very poor, pitches, selections, professionalism , competetiveness is missing, domestic cricket can be marketed as IPL teams for each state, sponsors, live telecast, option to play any player with a limit for the max imported talent,better marketing, spectator friendly with entertainment during breaks, participation by spectators making watching domestic games more fun.Most importantly grass root level work in promoting and finding talent and a good system for monitoring players and injuries, identifying talent.Having well defined 5 and ten year goals, accountability on BCCI'S part and being pro active in making decisions.

[Trundler27]

I'm seriously impressed with Dinda... the guy is having a monster first class season... the type that DEMANDS a place in the national team dammit..... I bet if this were the Aussie or English FC season, then he would have been playing in the national team right now. Considering our test bowling AND batting are messed up and worthless barring 1 or 2 players, there is all the more reason to give deserving folks their chances.