da marjack bet： In a remarkable display of stonewalling, Railways thwarted MadhyaPradesh’s hopes of an outright victory by batting right through thelast day of their Central Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Maharani UshaRaje ground in Indore on Sunday
Partab Ramchand15-Nov-1999In a remarkable display of stonewalling, Railways thwarted MadhyaPradesh’s hopes of an outright victory by batting right through thelast day of their Central Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Maharani UshaRaje ground in Indore on Sunday. In an entire day’s play comprising104 overs, they scored just 83 runs losing five wickets in the processto finish at 86 for five off 109 overs when stumps were drawn.MP, which opened the attack with the right arm off breaks of RajeshChauhan and the slow left arm orthodox of Sunil Lahore on the thirdevening when Railways had followed on 322 runs behind pressed intoservice three more spinners in Manish Majithia (slow left armorthodox), Narendra Hirwani (right arm leg break and googly) and AbbasAli (right arm off break). But the five man spin attack could onlyprise the door half open.Some of the statistics associated with the Railways batsmen make forastonishing reading. PS Rawat, the captain, played 110 balls for tworuns. Y Gowd, who came in at No 4, played 181 balls for 13 runs.Opening batsman Sanjay Bangar for the top score of 39 played 208balls. But easily the most amazing statistic was associated withMajithia, the MP spinner. He sent down 20 overs without conceding arun, picked up the wicket of Gowd and in the process finished with theamazing analysis of 20-20-0-1.The 83 runs that Railways scored in an entire day constituted a worldrecord for the least number of runs made in a day’s uninterruptedplay. The previous record was 95 by Australia (80 all out) andPakistan (15 for two) in their one off Test match at Karachi in 1956.