da betsul： Saurashtra all but wrapped up their Super League tie against Haryanaat Rohtak at the end of the third day today
18-Feb-2000Saurashtra all but wrapped up their Super League tie against Haryanaat Rohtak at the end of the third day today. The home team just aboutmanaged to avoid an innings defeat, being 25 runs ahead with a lonesecond innings wicket standing.It was a day on which Haryana lost 15 wickets. They never reallyrecovered from the one-two punch that off spinner Hitesh Parsanadelivered in his first two overs of the morning to send back overnightbatsmen Ajay Ratra and Rajesh Puri with just two runs added to theboard. Haryana went rapidly downhill to fold up for 224 as Parsana(6/68) and part time spinner Sitanshu Kotak (3/14) cleaned up thetail.Following on 181 runs behind, Haryana continued to lose wickets atregular intervals. Rajesh Puri mounted a lone rearguard action and wasundefeated on 77 (155 balls, 11 fours, 1 six). This time the wreckerin chief was off spinner Firoz Bambhaniya who scalped 4/39. Stumpswere drawn at the fall of the 9th wicket (Feroze Ghyas) with the scoreon 206.