da aposte e ganhe： The North Zone Under 19 team won the Vinoo Mankad Trophy at the MAChidambaram Stadium in Chennai on January 1st beating Rest of India bythree wickets
da betobet： 05-Jan-2000The North Zone Under 19 team won the Vinoo Mankad Trophy at the MAChidambaram Stadium in Chennai on January 1st beating Rest of India bythree wickets. The Vinoo Mankad trophy is contested by the winner ofthe CK Nayudu inter zonal tournament and the Rest of India. North hadwon the CK Nayudu Trophy just a day earlier after winning all fourmatches in the round robin league.The Rest of India won the toss and made 223-7 in their 50 overs.Prashant Joshi top scored with 95 (106 balls, 6 fours, 1 six) beforehe was run out and Sushant Manjrekar provided the acceleration towardsthe end with an unbeaten 41 off 43 balls (3 fours, 1 six). For NorthRavneet Ricky took two wickets but captain Reetinder Sodhi was thebest bowler with figures of 10-4-25-1.North openers Ravneet Ricky(66) and Manish Sharma (76) then seemed tohave taken the game away from the Rest by putting on 141 for the firstwicket in 35.5 overs. But Rest captain Venugopala Rao triggered acollapse by ripping out the North top order. He grabbed 5 wickets inthe space of 20 balls to reduce North to 168-5 and the game again hungin the balance. When North lost their seventh wicket at 203 from thelast ball of the 47th over they needed 21 from 24 balls. But ChetanSharma put the issue beyond doubt with a rousing 17 from 7 balls asNorth won with an over to spare. No.4 Yuvraj Singh had withstood allthe mayhem from the other end with an unruffled 36 from 28 balls. Raoended with 5-37 from 9 overs.The list of 25 probables for the Under 19 World Cup beginning January11 will be pruned to a final squad of 15 by the junior nationalselection committee when they meet at Chennai tomorrow.
