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Gambhir, Chopra hit centuries

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI NOV. 28. For the second successive day, the `new-look' Himachal Pradesh performed precisely in keeping with its past reputation. Despite the presence of some tried and tested additions, the hilly state found itself on a familiar slippery slope against Delhi at the half-way stage of the Ranji Trophy elite group match at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here on Thursday.

Halted at 244 in its first innings, 67 minutes after resuming the day at 194 for seven, Himachal's woes mounted with every passing session. Delhi's openers Gautam Gambhir and Akash Chopra, after a sedate start, feasted on Himachal's pedestrian attack and some very ordinary fielding to put on 211 runs and completed their centuries as Delhi finished the day at 240 for one.

The scores: Himachal Pradesh — 1st innings: Nischal Gaur b Bhandari 17, Sandeep Sharma (run out) 24, Vikram Rathour c Dahiya b Bhandari 20, Rajeev Nayyar (run out) 12, Sangram Singh c Chawla b Sarandeep 47, Amit Sharma b Bhandari 30, Virender Sharma c and b Bhandari 22, Aashish Kapoor lbw b Bhandari 1, Rahul Panta c Verma b Sarandeep 51, Vishal Bhatia lbw b Abhishek 2, Ashok Thakur (not out) 0, Extras (b-4, lb-4, nb-5, w-5) 18. Total 244.

Fall of wickets: 11-24, 2-53, 3-64, 4-81, 5-158, 6-160, 7-161, 8-219, 9-243.

Delhi bowling: Amit Bhandari 25-5-89-5, Arun Singh 16-4-36-0, Rahul Sanghvi 10-2-29-0, Abhishek Sharma 16.1-5-32-1, Sarandeep Singh 26-1-38-2, Mithun Manhas 3-1-12-0.

Delhi — 1st innings: Akash Chopra lbw b Thakur 105, Gautam Gambhir (batting) 109, Pradeep Chawla (batting) 8, Extras (b-8, lb-2, nb-6, w-2) 18, Total (for one wicket) 240.

Fall of wicket: 1-211.

Himachal Pradesh bowling: Ashok Thakur 19-7-46-1, Rahul Panta 6-1-22-0, Vishal Bhatia 11-3-33-0, Aashish Kapoor 19-2-52-0, Sandeep Sharma 5-1-27-0, Sangram Singh 8-1-27-0, Amit Sharma 9-2-23-0.

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