da bwin： Hyderabad romped home to a facile 10 wicket win over visitors Goa onthe third and final day of the Cooch Behar Trophy South Zone Leaguematch at the Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad on Thursday
Natarajan Sriram22-Sep-2000Hyderabad romped home to a facile 10 wicket win over visitors Goa onthe third and final day of the Cooch Behar Trophy South Zone Leaguematch at the Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad on Thursday. Hyderabadcantered home after a superb spell of medium pace bowling by skipperArjun Yadav (5 for 39) in the Goan second innings to pick up overallmatch figures of 9 for 79 off 39.3 overs. Set a meagre 58 runs forvictory, Hyderabad reached the target safely thanks to a unbrokenstand between openers Avinash Pai (19) and T Suman (30).Goa in their second innings, started shakily when they lost both theiropeners S Asnodkar (7) and A Kolambkar (5) cheaply with only 19 on theboard. Then a 42 run fourth wicket stand ensued between S Panashkar(25) and S Kamat (26) taking the score on to 80. Stumps were drawnsoon after the fall of S Panashkar. Resuming the innings on the thirdday, Goa lost H Raza (0) to the third ball of the day. The Goaninnings then prolonged till lunch thanks to fighting half century bySuraj Kamat (59). Arjun Yadav who had figures 1 for 11 overnightcontinued the good work and ran through the Goan middle and lowerorder to leave the visitors at 163, a lead of just 57 runs.