da bwin： Mandi: A brilliant 165 by Virender Sehwag and a quick 72 by MithunMinhas helped Delhi to pile up a massive score of 573 for seven on thesecond day of their four day league match of the North Zone RanjiTrophy tie against Himachal Pradesh here on
Amarnath Gaur08-Nov-1999Mandi: A brilliant 165 by Virender Sehwag and a quick 72 by MithunMinhas helped Delhi to pile up a massive score of 573 for seven on thesecond day of their four day league match of the North Zone RanjiTrophy tie against Himachal Pradesh here on Sunday.Resuming their innings at the overnight score of 313 for thee, Delhilost the wicket of skipper Ajay Sharma at 376. Akash Malhotra whocame next could not score any run and the fifth wicket fell at379. Ajay Sharma failed to complete his century as he was run out,while trying to take a second run, following a direct throw by RajivNayyar from cover. He made 85 runs with the help of six boundaries andtwo sixes. He batted 269 minutes and faced 188 balls. Mithun Minhascontributed 72 runs with the help of 11 boundaries before he wascaught by Arun Verma off Shakti Singh at 504.Virender Sehwag who was on 30 at close of play yesterday, scored abrilliant 165 with the help of 13 hits to the fence and five hugesixes. He batted 265 minutes and faced 163 deliveries before he wasbowled by Nischal Gaur. It was his fourth century in his 15th inningsin his 12th Ranji Trophy game and his highest individual score. Hishighest score earlier was 163 against Orissa at Cuttack in last year’ssuper league match. He and Ajay Sharma added 138 runs for the fourthwicket stand.Sunil Joshi (35) and Sandeep Angurala (2) were at the crease whentheir skipper declared the innings. Parveen Sharma and Shakti Singhcaptured two wickets each giving away 91 and 133 runs respectively.In reply, Himachal Pradesh scored 148 for five at close of play.Jaswant Rai, the only batsman to put up a show of defiance was at thecrease with 48 runs. He and Yashwinder (38) added 87 valuable runs forthe unfinished sixth wicket.Himachal lost its first wicket with just four runs on the board andwere 55 for five before Jaswant Rai and Yashwinder helped the hosts toreach 148 without any further loss. Skipper Rajiv Nayyar, who createda world record of the longest individual innings of 1015 minutes stayat the crease during his 271 in the previous league match againstJammu & Kashmir at Chamba, could score only four runs.Robin Singh junior and Sandeep Angurala captured two wickets eachgiving away 40 and 60 runs respectively while Arun Singh took onewicket for 28 runs. Himachal Pradesh still need 274 runs with fivewickets in hand to avoid the follow-on.