Arvind Mann was the man of the moment for Rajasthan with an excellentall round display as they beat the host Madhya Pradesh by 7 wickets atCaptain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior on Sunday in the Vijay MerchantTrophy Central Zone League for the

Santhosh S17-Dec-2000Arvind Mann was the man of the moment for Rajasthan with an excellentall round display as they beat the host Madhya Pradesh by 7 wickets atCaptain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior on Sunday in the Vijay MerchantTrophy Central Zone League for the under-22.Being put in to bat first MP batting fell like a house of cards to thehostile bowling of V Yadav 5/31 and P Tiwari 5/29 and finished at 75all out in 25.1 overs. Wicket keeper B Ranjan took 5 catches behindthe stumps. There were as many as four ducks in the MP innings asShadab Khan top scored with 22. Rajasthan got off to a terrible startas three of the first five wickets to fall were run outs and one wasdismissed ‘handled the ball’. Rajasthan were 96/5 at that stage. Thelower order of Rajasthan batting chipped in with useful runs as theirfirst innings came to an end at 188 in 83 overs. V Bhatt was the mostsuccessful bowler with 3/46.MP had conceded a 113 runs first innings lead and got off to a goodstart in their second knock. An opening stand of 82 between ManasPisolkar and P Bhand came to an end when Bhand was dismissed for 26.Pisolkar made amends to the dismal batting display by the whole MPside in the first essay with a superb ton of 113 in 187 balls whichincluded 13 boundaries. Rahul Bakshi 29, Gagandeep Bhatia 33 andKirti Kapoor 26 helped MP score 285 all out in 96.4 overs. Arvind Mann4/76 and Vibhore Mathur were the pick of the bowling. Requiring 173for a win, Rajasthan went about their task with some finesse thanks toan unbeaten 96 (8 fours) by opener Arvind Mann. Mann was wellsupported by Vinod Chanwaria 27 (5 fours) and Sanjay Bharti 26 not out(3 fours) as Rajasthan cruised to 175/3 in 70.4 overs. Rajasthan tookhome all eight points leaving MP with none.