da bet7： A century by one-drop Kashinath Khadkikar helped hosts Maharashtra to301/7 at stumps on the opening day of their Cooch Behar Trophy prequarter final game against Karnataka at the Nehru Stadium in Pune onFriday
Sankhya Krishnan01-Dec-2000A century by one-drop Kashinath Khadkikar helped hosts Maharashtra to301/7 at stumps on the opening day of their Cooch Behar Trophy prequarter final game against Karnataka at the Nehru Stadium in Pune onFriday.After winning the toss and electing to make first use of the wicket,Maharashtra lost opener SK Kamathe to left arm seamer Steve Lazarus inthe third over of the innings for nought.Off spinner Mulewa Dharmichand scalped the next two wickets as thehosts slipped to 80/3 before Khadkikar and RR Dharwat (37) launched arecovery, compiling 119 runs for the fourth wicket. Both weredismissed in the space of four balls at the same scoreline of 199.Khadkikar had made 123 of those, in 175 balls with 22 boundaries. Thelower order chipped in with useful contributions and at stumps APThakur (25) and KR Adhav (20) were holding sway. Dharmichand finishedwith the best figures of 3/96.