da dobrowin： Jammu & Kashmir played hosts to Himachal Pradesh at the Maulana AzadStadium, Jammu in the Vijay Merchant Trophy (under-16) North Zone leaguematch
Santhosh S14-Dec-2000Jammu & Kashmir played hosts to Himachal Pradesh at the Maulana AzadStadium, Jammu in the Vijay Merchant Trophy (under-16) North Zone leaguematch. After three days of eventful cricket, the match ended in a draw butHimachal captain Paras Dogra was very much the star, hitting a hurricane207 in 163 balls.Winning the toss, J&K elected to bat first and were troubled by KapoorSingh who bagged 6/85. J&K were helped by a brilliant century by captainYasser Shafi who opened for J&K and made 112 in 269 balls including 16boundaries. Shafi held the innings together for the best part and then camea late order cameo by batsman number ten Abid Nabi who made a quickfire 56in 61 balls including six fours and a six. J&K were all out in the 116thover for 286.Himachal lost a wicket too early and were 77/2 in the 21st over. Cometh thehour, cometh the man in Paras Dogra. And Dogra wasted no time taking theattack to the J&K camp scoring his fifty in 36 balls and completing hishundred in 86 balls. There was no respite for the hapless J&K bowlers asruns kept flowing from Dogra’s bat. Dogra was run out for 207 and thoseruns came in double quick time as he smashed a six and 32 boundaries. Dograand Gaurav Soni added 221 for the fifth wicket in 43.4 overs. On the finalday the Himachal innings came to an end at 407 in 94.4 overs thanks to alate order collapse. Soni made 71 in 154 balls and hit seven boundaries.Sumit Silwal with 5/97 was the pick of the J&K bowlers. Having gained afirst innings lead, Himachal pressed on for a victory only to be denied bysome good middle order batting by Munish Sharma (42) and Silwal (33 notout) as J&K made 165/8 by the close of play. Kapoor Singh was againsuccessful with the ball picking up three wickets. Dogra followed hisbrilliance with the bat by picking up 2/23 in 15 overs. Himachal took homefive points and J&K three.