by swings in momentum on the part of both sides.
Haryana sprang a big surprise on Bombay, bowling them out for 410. The
action started with the second ball of the day, with Tendulkar playing
across and being trapped leg before by Chetan. Kapil then chipped with
three crucial wickets to have Bombay reeling at 341/8. Pandit and Ankola
stemmed the tide for a while, taking the score to 408 before Ankola had a
rush of *** to his head and was caught behind attempting a wild heave,
and the innings was quickly over, with Pandit remaining unbeated 40.
Unfortunately for Haryana, their joy at their first innings lead of 112 was
very short-lived indeed, as the Bombay bowlers struck right back, reducing
them to 159/8 at close. The bowling honours were shared evenly among the
Bombay bowlers, with each bowler capturing 1 or 2 wickets (including
Hattangadi, who made up for his batting failure with two cheap wickets at
the end of the day, including almost-centurion Chetan Sharma in the last
over). Bombay did had a few anxious moments when Kapil threatened to pull
off a rescue attempt (he scored 41 runs), but they managed to trigger
another mini-collapse at the end of the day. The e***ment was too much
for many on the field: Rajesh Puri was given out off a one-bounce catch,
and Pandit was so e***d at seeing Chetan accidentally nick a ball towards
his own stumps that he overreached and fell on top of the stumps and the
batsman.
Anyway, with one day's play left, and a 47-run lead with 2 wickets in hand,
things look bad for Haryana. One wonders whether their bowlers will get as
much help from the pitch as Bombay's did today.
Haryana (1st innings): 522 (D. Sharma 199, Jadeja 94, C. Sharma 98).
Bombay (1st innings) (overnight 322/4):
Dilip Vengsarkar b Kapil 38
Sachin Tendulkar lbw Chetan 47
Vinod Kambli c Yadav b Kapil 5
Chandrakant Pandit (not out) 40
Raju Kulkarni c Bhandari b Kapil 0
Salil Ankola c Yadav b Bhandari 31
Abey Kuruvilla b Bhandari 0
Extras (??) 25
Total 410
Fall of wkts:
5-322, 6-329, 7-341, 8-341, 9-408.
Haryana (bowling):
Kapil Dev 34-13-53-3 Chetan Sharma 26-5-102-1
Ajay Jadeja 15-2-49-0 Pradeep Jain 29-5-66-1
Deepak Sharma 2-0-14-0 Y. Bhandari 31.3-0-118-5
Haryana (2nd innings):
Deepak Sharma c Pandit b Kuruvilla 2
Dhanraj Singh b Ankola 33
Ajay Jadeja c Vengsarkar b S. Patil 25
Amarjeet Kaypee c Pandit b S. Patil 5
Rajesh Puri c Pandit b Ankola 15
Kapil Dev b Kulkarni 40
Ajay Banerjee (batting) 20
Vijay Yadav c Pandit b Hattangadi 7
Chetan Sharma b Hattangadi 0
Pradeep Jain (batting) 0
Extras (??) 11
Total (for 8 wkts) 159
Fall of wkts:
1-16, 2-47, 3-68, 4-77, 5-100, 6-146, 7-154, 8-154.
Bombay (bowling):
R. Kulkarni 12-1-50-1 A. Kuruvilla 12-2-33-1
S. Ankola 10-0-37-2 S. Patil 21-7-35-2
S. Hattangadi 3-3-0-2
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