da aviator aposta： Daryl Tuffey claimed three wickets and Andrew Hall two, apart from bowlinga tight final over to kick off the Indian Cricket League in Panchkula
The Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Panchkula30-Nov-2007
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Daryl Tuffey claimed three wickets and Andrew Hall two, apart from bowlinga tight final over to kick off the Indian Cricket League in Panchkula. Ina match where Indian cricketers matched their skills with internationalones, the ‘home team’, Chandigarh Lions prevailed over Delhi Jets by eightruns.It was a day for both sport and entertainment but the intensity was hard to miss. The fielding was of higher standard, compared to what’s generally on display in domestic cricket, and Abhishek Sharma running out Imran Farhat was one of the plays of the day.Chris Cairns and Marvan Atapattu sparkled, apart from Tuffey and Hall, butthey had to slug it out against local talent trying to make a name. AliMortaza, a left-arm spinner from Uttar Pradesh who was an India Under-19star till recently, impressed with 3 for 16, including a wicket off hisfirst ball. Abhishek, the legspinner from Delhi, bagged three wickets tooand JP Yadav, the former Indian allrounder, contributed with both bat andball.Abbas Ali, the grandson of the legendary Mushtaq and a mainstay of theMadhya Pradesh middle order, cracked three sixes towards the end to openthe game up. Backing away from the stumps, he lofted the medium-pacerseffortlessly to bring the Delhi Jets to within striking distance.Hall, standing at midwicket, dropped a clanger off the first ball of the19th over – when Rajesh Sharma swung wildly – but he made amends byconceding just five in the final over, when 14 were needed.”I think he just wanted to be a hero and win it with the ball in the lastover,” joked the Lions captain Cairns when asked about the drop. “But Ithought it was a great way to kick the tournament off. Good game, goodcrowd, good entertainment . That’s all you ask for when you walk in for amatch.”