Date-stamped : 23 Dec93 - 22:52
IND RANJI 1993/94 : West Zone One-day SAIL Trophy
Bombay v Baroda, GSFC Sports Complex Baroda, 5 Dec 93

(From Times of India, 6 Dec 93 - by Max D'Souza)
Baroda, December 5.  Baroda carved  out  a  pulsating  two-wicket
victory  with three balls to spare over Bombay in the SAIL trophy
West Zone league encounter at the GSFC Sports Complex here today.
It was a touch-and-go affair right till the end  as  Baroda  made
amends  for  their  poor  show in  the Ranji league by picking up
four points.  Skipper Sachin Tendulkar, who  notched his   maiden
one-day  century,  was mainly instrumental in Bombay setting up a
challenging task for Baroda.  They totalled 238 for six and  that
meant  that Baroda faced a run-rate of 4.76.  Tendulkar also took
a calculated gamble that would have won him plaudits when he  in-
vited  Ravi Shastri to bowl the 47th over in a bid to staunch the
run flow.
Shastri had been denied the ball all through the innings  but  he
managed  to  put the brakes on when Baroda needed 18 runs from as
many balls.  He gave away a single, had Mukesh Narula stumped and
then  produced  a  dot ball and followed up by giving two singles
and a leg-bye.
The tension was palpable when he was entrusted with the last over
of  the innings to bowl to Rashid Patel.  He gave no runs off the
first and then gifted away a wide.  The burly Rashid oozed confi-
dence  as he essayed a reverse sweep that was intercepted, but he
stepped out to the next delivery and sent the ball  soaring  over
the midwicket fence to finish the match with a six.
Baroda's innings matched the Bombay pattern.  A pedestrian  start
for  20  overs  gained slight momentum and in the slog overs runs
cascaded in abundance.  Tendulkar dictated the trend for   Bombay
and  Atul  Bedade  for  Baroda  Bombay were jolted when they lost
three quick wickets while only 52 runs were on the board.   Zubin
Bharucha had replaced the indisposed Vinod Kambli in the team.

<END> Contributed by murari (venka@*me.utexas.edu)