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Umar Nazir creates history, scalps 9-wkts in an innings

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Jammu, JAMMU & KASHMIR :

Jammu :

J&K’s talented young fast bowler, Umar Nazir Mir not only made the red leather ball to dance, weave and sing with his magical fingers, strong wrist and high-arm action, but also forced the rival batsmen to dance on the music of the deliveries that either left their willow or their chin with a decent speed during a CK Nayudu trophy match against formidable Assam at GGM Science College Hostel Ground, here today.


Umar was simply hell-bent upon to either knock the rival batsmen’s heads off or their wickets down to help Jammu and Kashmir enjoy a driver’s seat at stumps on day-3 of the 4-day match.
The strongly built, 6 feet 2 inch tall fast bowler, bowled his heart-out and hit the right areas with genuine speed throughout his morning spell to help Jammu and Kashmir bundle out Assam for a paltry total of 193 runs in 66.1 overs, thus gaining a decisive lead of 178 runs.


With this performance he made history as he became first bowler from J&K to take 9 wickets in an innings.


Earlier, resuming the day from 149/5, with overnight batsmen Sunzow Brahma and RL Das at 25 and 32 runs respectively, Assam batsmen struggled against Umar Nazir, who wrecked havoc, to collapse at 193 runs. Das remained top scorer with 44 runs, studded with 6 boundaries, while Brahma and AS Sinha contributed 31 runs each. For J&K, Umar Nazir took 9 wickets by conceding 53 runs in 21.1 overs, while another speedster, Mehjoor Ali Sofi claimed one wicket.


Though, after gaining a lead of 178 runs, J&K could have asked Assam to follow on, yet they decided against it and chose to bat themselves in the second essay. After scoring 197 runs in 63.4 overs by losing 6 wickets, J&K skipper Asif Khan declared the innings to set a target of 376 runs for Assam. Aamir Sofi emerged top scorer with 67 runs off 127 balls, including 2 boundaries and 2 sixes, while Asif Khan (44), UN Mir (31), Pranav Gupta (23) and Divya Pratap (17) were the other contributors. For Assam, PD Sonowal captured 3 wickets, while Krishna Das and MR Das claimed one wicket each.


Chasing a victory target of 376 runs, Assam in their second essay were struggling at 40/2 in their 8.4 overs. The two batsmen back into the pavilion were opener Rishav Das and Dipesh Sana, while another opener R Hazarika was unbeaten on 21 off 23 balls, studded with 4 delectable boundaries.

For J&K, Umar Nazir and Mehjoor Ali Sofi shared one wicket each. Assam have an uphill task at hand as they are still 336 runs behind having 8 wickets in their kitty with the last day’s game left in the match.

source: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com / Daily Excelsior / Home> Sports News / by DE, Sports Correspondent / November 18th, 2013

Irfan Pathan sets up West Zone’s win

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Vadodara, GUJARAT :

Mumbai :

He may have been released by his last year’s IPL franchise, Rising Pune Supergiants. Still, Irfan Pathan had a reason to smile on Monday. The veteran seamer exploded the explosive North Zone batting line-up to set up West Zone’s thumping eight-wicket victory in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 championship.

In fact, Pathan’s spell of three for 10, with the prize scalps of Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant and Yuvraj Singh, would have impressed the sizeable IPL team coaches and scouts present in the President’s Box along with all three national selectors.

Pathan’s job was made easier by the North batsmen who committed hara-kiri and threw their wickets away. While Shikhar Dhawan poked at one that moved away from him to offer Kedar Jadhav a sharp chance in the slips, Pant and Yuvraj played extravagant shots against a moving ball to offer skiers on the off-side in the circle.

Barring Gautam Gambhir, who registered a second successive fifty before being dismissed off the penultimate ball of the innings, none of the other batsmen tried to apply themselves. As a result, a target of 106 was never going to ask questions of West Zone.

Parthiv Patel and Shreyas Iyer’s quickfire partnership at the top ensured West overhaul the paltry target with more than seven overs to spare and make up for the opening day’s loss against Central Zone. Iyer along with Ankeet Bawne and Priyank Panchal will now join the India A squad for the warm-up game against visiting Australians.

The scores:

North Zone: Shikhar Dhawan c Jadhav b Pathan 3, Gautam Gambhir c Tambe b Thakur 60, Rishabh Pant c Hooda b Pathan 2, Yuvraj Singh c Hooda b Pathan 0, Amit Pachhara run out 5, Parvez Rasool c Pathan b Nayar 5, Mayank Dagar run out 11, Harbhajan Singh c Pathan b Chaudhary 7, Pradeep Sangwan (not out) 10, Mohit Sharma (not out) 1; Extras (lb-1, w-2) 3; Total (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): 107.

Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-24, 3-24, 4-32, 5-39, 6-57, 7-90, 8-106.

West Zone bowling: Irfan Pathan 4-0-10-3, Shardul Thakur 4-0-29-1, Ishwar Chaudhary 4-0-23-1, Abhishek Nayar 3-0-18-1, Pravin Tambe 4-0-23-0, Deepak Hooda 1-0-3-0.

West Zone: Shreyas Iyer lbw Rasool 30, Parthiv Patel b Sharma 56, Aditya Tare (not out) 14, Ankeet Bawne (not out) 4; Extras (w-4) 4; Total (for two wkts. in 12.4 overs): 108.

Fall of wickets: 1-80, 2-92.

North Zone bowling: Pradeep Sangwan 2-0-26-0, Umar Nazir 2.4-0-24-0, Harbhajan Singh 2-0-15-0, Mohit Sharma 2-0-24-1, Mayank Dagar 2-0-12-0, Parvez Rasool 2-0-7-1.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Cricket / by Amol Karhadkar / Mumbai – February 13th, 2017