da spicy bet: Birju Pathak played a defiant innings forSaurashtra in their second innings against Mumbaito help them to a draw on the final day in theWest Zone Ranji Trophy match at Indian Farmers’Fertilizers Co-Operative Udyognagar Stadium,Gandhidham on
da pixbet: Waleed Hussain11-Dec-2000Birju Pathak played a defiant innings forSaurashtra in their second innings against Mumbaito help them to a draw on the final day in theWest Zone Ranji Trophy match at Indian Farmers’Fertilizers Co-Operative Udyognagar Stadium,Gandhidham on Monday.Saurashtra ended the day on 179 for nine off 80overs. Mumbai earned five points from their firstinnings lead and Saurashtra had to be content withthree.Mumbai declared their innings on the overnightscore of 377 for eight. Saurashtra began thesecond innings on a sad note. Sudhir Tanna wasback in the pavilion when Wasim Jaffer had him runout. Two overs later, Santosh Saxena had RakeshDhruv edging to wicket keeper Abhijit Shetyemaking the score read 11 for two. Prashant Joshi(45) and Prakash Bhatt (16) stuck to the taskadding 50 runs for the third wicket off 22.4overs. Birju Pathak anchored one end as wicketswere falling. He played a patient 156 ball inningsfor his 44 with five hits to the fence.Paras Mhambrey bagged three for 30 and SantoshSaxena took two for 13.






