Lone warrior: On a day when wickets fell like 9 pins, Arundhati, left, scored a half-century.
| Photo Credit: Lavanya Lakshmi Narayanan
With a spectator-less echoes of Maharashtra Cricket Association right here to bear witness, East Zone ended day one of the final of the Senior Women’s Inter Zonal Multi Day Trophy in opposition to South Zone with an advantage of naked margins on Tuesday.
South opted to bat within the scorching and dry situations. Young speedster Titas Sadhu got here by instantly, cleansing up the South prime 4 throughout the first 15 overs. The onus then fell on S. Sajana and Arundhati Reddy who appeared to useless bat their solution to security to start with. Deepti Sharma struck within the twenty fifth over with a ball that rocked again into Sajana’s off stump.
Arundhati then discovered assist in teenager Shabnam Shakil with a 44-run stand off 77 balls for the ninth wicket — the best of the innings. The former additionally reached her fifty, her second in as many video games, combating warmth exhaustion all by. Sushree Dibyadarshini quickly noticed the again of Arundhati after she holed out to Uma Chetry. Deepti eliminated Shabnam to wrap up South’s innings for 133.
When East started its response, Shabnam, bowling in tandem with Arundhati, gave South a breakthrough within the second over itself, eradicating Uma Chetry for simply 4 runs.
Deepti and Richa Ghosh then steadied the ship with a 34-run stand off 58 balls for the second wicket. Skipper Minnu Mani eliminated Deepti off her very first supply. She additionally had Richa caught and bowled, a improbable effort as the ball stayed low.
Dhara Gujjar, East Zone’s centurion from the quarterfinal, couldn’t repeat her feat, falling to Sunanda Yetrekar within the twenty third over. From there on, Rizu Saha and Durga Murmu added a very important 44 runs off 70 balls for the fifth wicket, which Sunanda broke on the final supply of the day.
The scores:
South Zone 133 in 54.5 overs (Arundhati Reddy 57, Deepti Sharma 4/28, Titas Sadhu 4/30) vs East Zone 108/5 in 34 overs (Richa Ghosh 25).
Toss: South.
