da heads bet： Baroda kicked off their West Zone Ranji One-Day tournament on awinning note with a 102 run win against Maharshtra at the MotibaugPalace grounds in Baroda
Waleed Hussain17-Nov-2000Baroda kicked off their West Zone Ranji One-Day tournament on awinning note with a 102 run win against Maharshtra at the MotibaugPalace grounds in Baroda. Baroda picked up two points from theirvictory.Maharashtra won the toss and put Baroda in to bat. The hosts startedoff on a disastrous note losing former India South paw Atul Bedade inthe fourth over of the innings. H Jadhav was soon to follow on a duckcaught by wicketkeeper Amol Ghag off veteran all-rounder IqbalSiddiqui. Jacob Martin 36(2×4) and Connor Williams 49(5×4) steadiedthe innnings before stumper Ghag caught Williams short of his ground.T Arothe returned unbeaten on 79(4×4,2×6) helping Baroda to a score of238/8. Iqbal Siddiqui was the most successful bowler returning figuresof 3/31.In turn the visitors, during the course of the innings kept losingwickets at regular intervals. Maharashtra batsmen never lookedcomfortable playing the Baroda attack. The top order collapsed and wassalvaged by a quick fire innings by all-rounder Iqbal Siddiqui (44 notout 1×4, 4×6). Maharshtra ran out of steam in the 35th over with thescore line reading 136. The wreckers-in-cheif were R Patel (3/8) and ABhoite (4/28).