da bet7： Chamba 30 October: Allround performance by Ashwani Gupta (30 & 3for21) and half century knock by Dhruv Mahajan enabled Jammu Kashmir tobeat Himachal by four wickets in the second tie of Ranji Trophy oneday being played Police Stadium here today
Vinod Saxena31-Oct-1999Chamba 30 October: Allround performance by Ashwani Gupta (30 & 3for21) and half century knock by Dhruv Mahajan enabled Jammu Kashmir tobeat Himachal by four wickets in the second tie of Ranji Trophy oneday being played Police Stadium here today.Himachal opted to bat and were in deep trouble as their three mainbatsman were back in pavilion with just 32 runs on board. SangramSingh (34) & Yashwinder Singh (20) repaired the innings to some extentbefore Yashwinder Singh was run out in mix up. Rahul Panta (17) andArun Verma (26*) also contributed to their team total while no otherbatsman played to his potential . Ashwani Gupta was most successfulwith his tight off spin bowling as he captured three wickets by givingaway just 21 runs. Sanjay Sharma and Vijay Sharma were another wickettaker for J&K as both dismissed two batsman each at the cost of 19 &22 runs respectively.At last Himachal bundled out at a partly total ofruns in 49.5 overs .Chasing a modest total of 145 runs in 50 overs Jammu Kashmir got twoearly jolts as opener Rakesh Gill (4) was trapped in front of wicketby Shakti Singh and Kanvaljeet (1) was run out at team total of29. Ranjit Bali (25) and Ashwani Gupta (30) then played with coolheads and rotated strke occassionly. Himachal new ball bowler ShaktiSingh (2 for 28) and Parveen Sharma bowled extremly well and did notallow Jammu Kashmir batsman to score freely. Parveen was unlucky togot any wicket as his deliveries beat the batsmen many times .Dhruv Mahajan (50) who understood the value of run rate and scoredbriskly and hit knock five boundaries and a six in his knock of 82balls. Vikrant Taggar also contributed 19 not out runs in winningchase. Jammu Kashmir achieved target in 47.2 overs. Nischal Gaur andRahul Panta also got a wicket each.