da luck： In a battle between two teams occupying the cellar in the South Zoneleague, Goa had made steady progress in reply to Kerala’s firstinnings score of 370
Sankhya Krishnan16-Nov-2000In a battle between two teams occupying the cellar in the South Zoneleague, Goa had made steady progress in reply to Kerala’s firstinnings score of 370. At stumps on the second day at Cochin, thevisitors were 86/2 with opener YC Barde and Satyajit Medappa manningthe fort.Resuming at 266/6, the overnight pair of S Nair and KNAnanthapadmanabhan were in no mood to relinquish their occupation ofthe crease in the morning. They extended their seventh wicketassociation to 120 before the latter was bowled by SA Khalid for 63(131 balls, 6 fours). The bowler struck again in his next overremoving wicket keeper Kamaruddin.Nair soldiered on to 88 (249 balls, 9 fours) – his highest score infirst class cricket – before becoming the persistent Khalid’s thirdsuccessive victim and Tinu Yohanan fell just after lunch as Keralasettled at 370. Khalid who had taken two wickets on Wednesday,finished with 5/63.The Goa reply began on the wrong foot as skipper Kolambkar fell to thedebutant medumpacer Prasanth Chandran in the fourth over. Barde andDinesh Rao added exactly 50 for the second wicket before off spinnerRamprakash sent back the latter. Medappa and Barde then played out thefinal twenty overs watchfully as Goa closed at 86/2 in 51 overs.