da betcris： Dinesh Mongia hit his second double hundred in this year’s DuleepTrophy championship as North Zone piled up 690 for eight beforedeclaring on the second day of their match against Central Zone at theFeroze Shah Kotla grounds in New Delhi on Friday
Staff Reporter26-Jan-2001Dinesh Mongia hit his second double hundred in this year’s DuleepTrophy championship as North Zone piled up 690 for eight beforedeclaring on the second day of their match against Central Zone at theFeroze Shah Kotla grounds in New Delhi on Friday. At close, Centralhad replied with 81 for one off 13 overs.Mongia had hit 201 in the opening round encounter against South Zone.On Friday, the 23-year-old Punjab batsman hit 208 and added 316 runsfor the fifth wicket with his Punjab colleague Reetinder Singh Sodhi.Resuming at the North Zone score of 391 for four, Mongia and Sodhicarried on from where they left off and did pretty much what theyliked with the bowling. The stand was not broken till the score was620 after an association that lasted 80 overs. Then Mongia was finallydismissed after batting 433 minutes. He faced 319 balls and hit 27fours and two sixes. Sodhi did not last long after Mongia’s departure.His 137 was compiled in 375 minutes. He faced 245 balls and hit 13fours and three sixes. Harbhajan Singh then flogged the tired attackfor a breezy 42 off 43 balls with four boundaries and two sixes. TheCentral Zone bowling made for sorry reading with four of the bowlersconceding over 100 runs. Indian left arm spinner Murali Kartik was themost expensive conceding 178 runs off 53 overs and finishingwicketless.When Central Zone batted, they lost the wicket of Amit Pagnis earlybut the other opener Jai P Yadav and skipper Amay Khurasiya thenshowed that there was nothing in the bowling or the pitch and rattledup 65 runs for the unbroken second wicket off only 9.3 overs. WhileYadav has hit 23 off 37 balls with four hits to the fence, the moreaggressive Khurasiya is batting with 45 off just 28 balls. He has hiteight fours and a six.