da poker： The New Zealand Cricket Academy completed a thumping innings and 11 runvictory over Tamil Nadu Districts at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennaitoday to enter the quarterfinals of the MRF-Buchi Babu all India invitationtournament in style
Sankhya Krishnan18-Aug-2000The New Zealand Cricket Academy completed a thumping innings and 11 runvictory over Tamil Nadu Districts at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennaitoday to enter the quarterfinals of the MRF-Buchi Babu all India invitationtournament in style.After declaring at their overnight score of 382/8, the visitors from theSouthern Hemisphere knocked over the Districts men for 212. The NZCA now gothrough to a quarterfinal clash against Hyderabad beginning August 20 atthe Guru Nanak College Ground.Only four batsmen topped double figures in Districts’ second knock, TamilNadu Ranji Trophy player Vasant Saravanan top scoring with an enterprising61 (78 balls, 8 fours, 2 sixes). Opener KN Riaz (30), middle order batsmanS Saravanan (45) and tailender P Muthupandian (25) were the others to showsome semblance of a fight.For the Kiwis, left arm spinner Bruce Martin got the best purchase withfigures of 4/63, while leg spinner Aaron Redmond complemented him well bygrabbing 3/46. Redmond drove the final nail in the Districts coffin byhaving STD Kumar caught by his fellow wrecker Martin for seven in the 76thover of the innings.