Nagpur, Dec 30:
Young left-hander Vaibhav Rawal’s impressive show continued as he scored a century to help Delhi pile up a massive 523 for nine declared on the second of their final group league encounter against Vidarbha.
At stumps, Vidarbha were 20 for one with left-arm seamer Pradeep Sangwan cleaning up former India opener Shiv Sunder Das.
The day belong to young Rawal who scored his second first-class century of the season having scored his maiden ton against Tamil Nadu on debut.
The left-hander showed enormous patience batting close to six hours scoring 104. He faced 226 deliveries and hit 15 fours. He had a very fruitful partnership with veteran Rajat Bhatia (68, 136 balls, 7×4, 1×6) as they added 152 runs for the sixth wicket having joined hands at 262 for five.
While Rawal dropped anchor at one end, Bhatia did hit a few big blows. Both Bhatia and Rawal were were out in quick succession but Delhi’s lower-order batsmen showed a lot of grit.
Puneet Bisht (26), Sumit Narwal (39) and Pradeep Sangwan (37, 35 balls, 3×4, 2×6) added useful runs which took their total past 500. Narwal and Sangwan added 68 runs for the ninth wicket. (PTI)
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