da bet esporte： Pankaj Dharmani’s 128 and Punjab’s batting depth saw them take a firmgrip in their North Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Services onSaturday
Partab Ramchand18-Nov-2000Pankaj Dharmani’s 128 and Punjab’s batting depth saw them take a firmgrip in their North Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Services onSaturday. By stumps on the second day, Punjab after scoring 430 toobtain a first innings lead of 343 runs, had taken one Services wicketfor 69 runs.Dharmani who was 92 overnight was out this morning for 128. Batting ashade over five hours, the 26-year-old prolific run getter in domesticcricket who has played in one ODI for India, faced 233 balls and hit20 fours and a six.Dharmani and the other overnight batsman Reetinder Sodhi (35) fell insuccessive overs, but Harminder Jagnu (28) and Harbhajan Singh (52)kept the innings going with a seventh wicket partnership of 92 runsoff 24.4 overs. Harbhajan’s bright knock came up off only 63 balls andhe hit seven of them to the ropes. The No 9 batsman Sandeep Sanwal alsodid his bit in prolonging the agony of the Services players by hittingan unbeaten 41 off 53 balls with five fours and a six. He and last manGagandeep Singh (14) stretched the Punjab lead by adding 40 runs off8.3 overs.In arrears by a big margin, Services were off to a fair start withopeners Deepak Sehrawat (32 not out) and Narender Singh (21) puttingon 47 runs off 19.3 overs. Sanjay Verma (6) kept Sehrawat company atstumps with Services still needing 274 runs to avoid an inningsdefeat.