da dobrowin: BPL put it across hosts Hyderabad by two wickets in a seat edgethriller in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Cup at the AOC ground in the citytoday
da aposte e ganhe: Sankhya Krishnan05-Sep-2000BPL put it across hosts Hyderabad by two wickets in a seat edgethriller in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Cup at the AOC ground in the citytoday. SR Deepu had a brilliant allround game for the winners,grabbing 5/33 with the ball to shut out Hyderabad for 177 and thenmaking an unbeaten 42 to pilot BPL home with one ball to spare.Hyderabad elected to bat after winning the toss and a useful openingstand of 76 between Nandakishore (45) and Daniel Manohar (41) in lessthan 20 overs gave them a strong foundation which the later batsmencontrived to squander. After Syed Nooruddin made the initial inroadsby dismissing Manohar, Deepu took over, slicing through the middleorder with precision. Nooruddin also joined the party with a bag of3/32 as Hyderabad collapsed from 113/1, losing their last nine wicketsfor 63.In reply, BPL lost Nooruddin to Fiaz Ahmed in the third over and thesame bowler also sent back Yere Goud to leave them at 26/2. VinayKumar (30) and Nitin Mulki (52) then came together in the brightestspot of the innings, adding 55 for the third wicket. Mulki and Deepuput on a further 44 for the fourth wicket before the former was runout at 125.From there things steadily went downhill for BPL as the next threebatsmen fell for ducks and they slipped to 128/7, having lost fourwickets for three runs in a spectacular collapse. Deepu who hadsurvived all the carnage got a willing partner in BN Ramesh with whomhe added 37 to take BPL to the doorstep of victory. No.10 SandeepHebbar came out with 13 required in 15 balls and they just aboutsqueaked home.






