Ganguly takes 2 wickets but bad light deny East win in Duleep Trophy

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Gwalior, Oct 22 (UNI) Sourav Ganguly took two late wickets but East Zone remained stranded three wickets away from a win as their four-day Duleep Trophy match ended in a draw at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium here today.

Setting a victory target of 446 runs to their rivals, East Zone bowlers boweled their heart out but bad light resulted in suspension of play and that helped Central Zone save the match with just 15.2 overs bowled today.

Late night rain had rendered the outfield wet and efforts to make it fit for today's proceedings went in vain in, much to the dismay of East Zone captain Ganguly.

East Zone, thanks to their first innings lead, pocketed two points from the match.

East Zone had scored 245 in their first innings and bowled out the rivals for a mere 130. In their second essay, East made 330 and then went for the kill even though Central Zone, 171 for seven at stumps on the final day, somehow saved the match.

Chasing an improbable victory target of 446, Central Zone resumed at 148 for five and looked set for doom. But an early shower and bad light helped them avert a defeat staring at their face.

Ganguly struck the first blow when he castled the dangerous looking Praveen Kumar after the latter played a 36-ball knock of 32 that included five hits to the fence besides a six.

Another two runs added to the team total and Ganguly struck again, removing Abbas Ali (52), who was caught by Shiv Sunder Das after the batsman had played a sedate 107-ball knock that had seven boundaries in it.

East was smelling a win but soon play had to be suspended and Central Zone heaved a huge sigh of relief at escaping a certain defeat.

Ashok Dhinda (3/48) was pick of the East bowlers, while Ganguly (2/33) and Debashish Mohanty (2/8) claimed two wickets apiece.

Scoreboard: East Zone first innings 245 all out Central Zone first innings 130 all out East Zone second innings 330 all out Central Zone second innings (Overnight 148 for 5) SS Shukla lbw b Mohanty 1 AA Pagnis c Dasgupta b Mohanty 1 NV Ojha c Shukla b Dinda 14 TP Singh c SG Das b Dinda 33 S Abbas Ali c SS Das b Ganguly 52 J P Yadav b Dinda 0 P Kumar b Ganguly 32 Piyush Chawla not out 12 M Kartik not out 4 Extras (B-4, LB-5, W-2, NB-11) 22 Total (For 7 wickets in 52.2 overs) 171 Fall of wickets: 1/2 2/7 3/21 4/75 5/79 6/151 7/153 Bowling: Ranadeb Bose 11-1-43-0 Debashish Mohanty 9.2-5-8-2 Ashok Dinda 12-2-48-3 Sourav Ganguly 10-3-33-2 Sourashish Lahiri 9-4-29-0 Rohan Gavaskar 1-0-1-0 UNI XC AY AB DB1934

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