Cricket

Pailwan shatters Vikhe Patil's hopes

A rich haul of seven wickets by Kamlesh Pailwan (7-8) of Dnyanganga School, scripted an overwhelming an innings and 110 runs win over Vikhe Patil Memorial School in the Kohinoor Trophy under-14 inter-school cricket tournament at AFK ground here on Monday.

Dnyanganga, who took a 139-run first-innings lead, bundled out their opponents for a paltry 29 in their second outing, with Pailwan being the wrecker-in-chief.

He was supported by Trushar Sutar who scalped two wickets giving away 15 runs.

Earlier, Ashutosh Salvi who took five wickets in the first innings scored a dazzling 75 for Dnyanganga as they declared their first innings on 204.

Modi was all hype and hoopla: Dixit

Giant-killer Sanjay Dixit said his victory over Lalit Modi in the Rajasthan Cricket Association election was a result of a 'negative' vote. "Beating Modi was easy in the sense that he was autocratic in his functioning," the new RCA president said. "He was a law unto himself. He was trying to act like God. He would do everything with unscrupulous means and with money power. He was running a mighty empire, which was full of money, power, pelf and horse trading. He had a very aggressive legal strategy."

Success and failure a part of life: Modi

Former Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president Lalit Modi, who lost his post to Sanjay Dixit, is down but certainly not out of action.  

Baroda oust Hyderabad, reach semis

Three half-centuries propelled Baroda to a thumping victory over Hyderabad in the Late Capt Vijay Hazare All India Knockout Tournament being played at the Polytechnic ground, Agartala, on Monday.

The Pinal Shah-led outfit has now entered the semifinals of the tournament, where it will meet the winner of the Delhi-Bengal match.

Chasing a modest target of 168, Baroda got off to a poor start as KH Devdhar (5) was given marching orders by pacer MP Arjun. However, SR Solanki (59) and Azhar Bilakhia (50) steadied the ship with a 76-run stand for the second wicket. Solanki hit 10 boundaries in his hour-long stay at the wicket, during which he faced 49 balls.

India can overtake Australia in ODI team rankings

ICC-LogoDubai, Mar. 2 : India will be ranked second in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table if it wins its upcoming five-match series in New Zealand 5-0.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team currently lies in third position, some four ratings points behind second-placed Australia and five behind top team South Africa.

A clean sweep for India will put it ahead of Ricky Ponting's men by a fraction of a point but it would remain just behind the Proteas in what would be an extraordinarily tightly packed leader board with one ratings point separating the top three ODI teams in world cricket.

Indian Test cricket stars to get warm-up games in New Zealand

New-Zealand-IndiaWellington, Mar. 2 : Six Indian Test specialists will get match practice over the next fortnight to prepare themselves for playing conditions in New Zealand.

Four first-class sides in New Zealand will have an Indian player for the next round of the State Championship on Friday, and two not.

The two other Indians will play the following week, for yet-to-be-determined teams.

To most people, that constitutes an uneven playing field, not to mention an undermining of the competition, but there were no complaints last night.

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