Archive & Stats

a9586	India Seniors v India A
	Challenger Trophy (Liberty Cup) 1995/96
Venue	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 28th December 1995 (50-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	India Seniors won the toss and decided to field
Result	India A won by 17 runs
Points	India Seniors 0; India A 2
Umpires	Jasbir Singh, VK Ramaswamy
Referee	ML Jaisimha

India A innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*SR Tendulkar	c and b Chatterjee	52
V Rathour	c Mongia b Srinath	4
AA Muzumdar	c Mongia b Prasad	2
RS Dravid	c Manjrekar b Chatterjee	30
SC Ganguly	c Manjrekar b Prasad	35
Bhupinder Singh	b Kumble	12
+SS Karim	b Srinath	16
SA Ankola	not out	9
ND Hirwani	not out	9
PL Mhambrey	did not bat
SLV Raju	did not bat
Extras	(5 lb, 6 nb, 3 w)	14
Total	(7 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs)	183
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-19, 3-88, 4-101, 5-129, 6-157, 7-161

India Seniors bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Prabhakar	10	0	37	0	-	-
Srinath	10	1	33	2	-	-
Prasad	10	1	35	2	-	-
Kumble	10	0	48	1	-	-
Chatterjee	10	0	25	2	-	-

India Seniors innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Prabhakar	c Rathour b Raju	13
AD Jadeja	c Karim b Raju	7
NS Sidhu	c Mhambrey b Hirwani	30
*M Azharuddin	lbw b Raju	0
VG Kambli	c Tendulkar b Ganguly	11
SV Manjrekar	lbw b Tendulkar	18
+NR Mongia	b Raju	45
A Kumble	b Raju	8
J Srinath	b Raju	8
US Chatterjee	b Ganguly	13
BKV Prasad	not out	2
Extras	(1 b, 4 lb, 1 nb, 5 w)	11
Total	(all out, 49.5 overs)	166
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-28, 3-28, 4-46, 5-93, 6-98, 7-110, 8-136, 9-157, 10-166 (49.5 ov)

India A bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Ankola	5	0	9	0	-	-
Mhambrey	8	0	36	0	-	-
Raju	10	1	39	6	-	-
Ganguly	6.5	1	20	2	-	-
Hirwani	10	1	26	1	-	-
Tendulkar	10	3	31	1	-	-

Notes
--> SLV Raju achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ListA Matches in the India Seniors innings (previous best was 4-46)
--> ND Hirwani reached 50 wickets in ListA Matches when he dismissed , his 1st wicket in the India Seniors innings

Tendulkar 83b, Dravid 69b, 2x4, Mongia 46b
Tendulkar and Dravid steady the innings after the loss of early wkts. Srinath gets Rathore snicking a rising ball of good length. Prasad does ditto with Muzumdar. Tendulkar plays a very controlled innings. Dravid plays well and Saurav Ganguly is patchy (According to Deccan herald). Azhar finishes Prabhakar's overs in a trot and had Prasad and Srinath bowl the slogs.
Raju brought on after 10 overs, get Jadeja nick it to the keeper while playing a cut and Prabhakar loft it to mid-off for a catch. Azhar was caught in front of the wicket of a beauty that straightened out. India had hopes until Sidhu and Manjrekar was on. Sidhu who was tied down by Hirwani, lost patience and holed out. Runs were tough to come, when tendulkar was bowling since the ball wobbled a bit. Finally he got Manjrekar trapped in front. Mongia was punishing on Mhambrey when he was brought on for second spell. Raju brought on, got all the three wickets - Mongia, Srinath and Kumble. Raju's bowling has been praised by all the papers, with IE going as far as saying that he being left out over Chatterjee is still a mystery after Raju's performance against the Windies.