da betway： A fine spell of spin bowling by left armer Sreekumar Nair (4 for 27)and Chandrashekara (3 for 18) saw Kerala score a 3 run win over Goa inthe South Zone Ranji Trophy One day tournament match at the SouthernRailway Ground in Chennai on Tuesday
Natarajan Sriram05-Dec-2000A fine spell of spin bowling by left armer Sreekumar Nair (4 for 27)and Chandrashekara (3 for 18) saw Kerala score a 3 run win over Goa inthe South Zone Ranji Trophy One day tournament match at the SouthernRailway Ground in Chennai on Tuesday.With the match being reduced to 35 overs a side due to wet groundconditions, Goa were set a target of 145. The Kerala seamer TinuYouhanan bowling a good line had opener A Amonkar (12) caught by Nairin his second over. This brought in Tanveer Jabbar (55) in to themiddle and with Kolambkar (19) took the score to 61. The Goa skipperPreveen Amre who replaced Kolambkar failed to impress, holding out toTinu Youhanan at Long on giving Sreekumar his first wicket.Jabbar at the other end was looking as compact as ever. Jabbar carriedon inspite of losing his partners at regular intervals. He was theseventh batsman to be dismissed with the score on 114. The fact thatGoa were running out of overs and wickets made Jabbar attempt aextravagant shot off Nair. Trying to step out and lift the bowler, hewas beaten and lost his off stump. Then K Angle tried valiantly torevive the Goan Innings. With eight to be scored of the last over thematch was heading to the wire. But an excellent final over by TinuYouhanan was Kerala scrape through.Earlier the match started as late as 12 noon after three inspectionsby the umpires. Kerala who were put into bat managed to put up 144 for7 on the board thanks to a 66 run fourth wicket partnership betweenopener MP Sorab (53) and skipper Sunil Oasis (36). Sorab, Oasis andKudua (11) none of the other batsmen managed to reach double figures.