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da 888： Partab Ramchand20-Aug-2000Kerala Cricket Association XI got off to a good start, lostground in late afternoon but made a recovery of sorts late in theday on the opening day of their Buchi Babu All India invitationcricket tournament pre quarterfinal against Jolly Rovers at theIIT-Chemplast ground in Chennai on Sunday. From 172 for one,Kerala slid to 185 for four before ending with a closing score of275 for seven at stumps.Openers Varun Girilal (87) and MA Sorab (25) put on 57 runs off14.5 overs after Kerala opted to bat. Then Girilal and PrasanthMenon (54) consolidated the position with a second wicket standof 115 runs off 38.5 overs. But midway through the day, JollyRovers came back strongly into the match. First Girilal wasbowled by Tinu Yohannan. During his 231-minute stay at thecrease, the opening batsman faced 155 balls and hit 13 of them tothe fence. Experienced campaigner Sunil Oasis did not last long,being caught by Dinesh Mongia off Ganesh Kumar for two. Shortlyafterwards Yohannan bowled Prasanth Menon who batted a shade overthree hours for 54. He faced 138 balls and hit seven of them tothe ropes.Kerala, having lost three wickets for 13 runs off 5.3 overssuddenly lost the initiative. Vipinlal and B Ramprakash howeverstarted a rally by adding 40 runs for the fifth wicket off 9.4overs. Vipinlal’s role in this partnership was totally passive,scoring just six runs off 39 balls. He batted for almost an hourbefore he was bowled by R Ramkumar. Then Ramprakash and skipperKN Ananthapadmanabhan continued the recovery process by figuringin a 44-run sixth wicket partnership that lasted 17.5 overs.Ramprakash was out shortly before close, caught behind by TRArasu off Ganesh Kumar for a fighting 47. The experienced playerbatted 132 minutes, faced 88 balls and hit four fours and a six.Ramkumar then had Sreekumar Nair caught by Yohannan for a duck.Ananthapadmanabhan however carried on and was unbeaten with 30 atclose. He has so far batted 104 minutes and has dispatched fourof the 59 balls he has faced to the ropes.The Jolly Rovers bowling was chiefly in the hands of Yohannan,Ramkumar and Ganesh Kumar who sent down 20, 27 and 21 oversrespectively to bag two wickets each.
