da doce： Twenty wickets fell on the second day of the Super League tie betweenSaurashtra and Orissa at the Municipal Stadium in Rajkot today
25-Feb-2000Twenty wickets fell on the second day of the Super League tie betweenSaurashtra and Orissa at the Municipal Stadium in Rajkot today. Orissatightened the screws on the home side by taking a first innings leadof 134 although they were in a spot of bother at 18-2 in their secondinnings.Earlier the Orissa first innings terminated at 372. RR Parida made 76and Debashish Mohanty remained not out on 20. Niraj Odedra’s 6-117 wasby far the best figures of the innings.Saurashtra were struggling at 35-5 in their second knock butswashbuckling innings from Hitesh Parsana (76, 80 balls, 7 fours, 5sixes) and MM Parmar (71, 89 balls, 8 fours, 1 six) helped them to arespectable score of 238. Debashish Mohanty and Sanjay Satpathy tookfour wickets each.When Orissa replied, Saurashtra opening bowler AA Merchant grabbed twowickets with the second and fifth balls of his first over. Bothopeners, Y Mohanty and P Mullick, fell for ducks.