VADODARA, NOV 21: Vadodara registered a four-wicket win over Mumbai after bundling out the visitors for a paltry 157 in 46.1 overs and then achieving the target in 44.4 overs in the West Zone one-day match today. Vadodara's win was scripted by an unbeaten knock of 75 by Ajit Bhoite, who also did well with the ball giving away only 25 runs in his quota of eight overs.Earlier, Vadodara won the toss and invited Mumbai to bat. The visitors began disastrously losing their first wicket with only 19 runs on the board. And from there, Mumbai failed to recover losing wickets at regular intervals.Only five Mumbai batsmen reached double figures. Test discard Vinod Kambli waged a lone battle topscoring with 35 runs but was unlucky to get run out. Five Mumbai batsmen were run out.Vadodara also began disastrously losing three wickets for a paltry 55 runs. Then Bhoite along with captain Tushar Arothe (22) put on 54 runs for the fourth wicket before Arothe fell to Rajesh Sutar caught by N Kulkarni.Brief scores: Mumbai157 in 46.1 overs (V Kambli 35, R Sutar 24, Z Khan 2-32, Mulherkar 2-18) lost to Vadodara 160-6 in 44.4 overs (A Bhoite 75 n.o., Sutar 2-24)Saurashtra register 39-run winRAJKOT: Saurashtra registered a 39-run win over Gujarat in a West Zone one-day tie today. Saurashtra made 250 runs losing nine wickets and restricted Gujarat to 211 runs in 45 overs. Brief scores: Saurashtra 250-9 in 50 overs (Vasant Kumar 79, Prakash Bhatt 87 not out) bt Gujarat 211 in 45 overs (Amrish Kotecha 34, M Parmar 47, Niraj Odedara 3-34)Orissa thrash Bihar by 112 runsCuttack: The match was won and lost with the toss itself. The 112-run victory margin only underlined Orissa's total dominance in the match. Orissa skipper Shiv Sundar Das decided to bat first, and his side posted a fighting 210 on a crumbling pitch. Bihar were bundled out for 98.Brief scores: Orissa 210 in 50 overs (P Jaychandra 59, S Raul 42) bt Bihar 98 (Raul 2-12, Sanjay Satpathy 3-23).Services strike crucialblowsUNA: Services were sitting pretty at stumps on the second day of the four-day North Zone match against hosts Himachal Pradesh. Brief scores: Services 355 (Harish Bhaskar 51, Sanjay Verma 68, Shakti Singh 4-89) vs HP 173-4 (Rajiv Nayyar batting 60, Satya Prakash 54, Pankaj Maitrey 2-16)Yuvraj scores tonCHANDIGARH: Young Yuvraj Singh scored his maiden first class century (131 batting: 319m, 18x4, 2x6) and helped Punjab to a position where they can call the shots against Haryana in their final North Zone match today. Brief scores: Haryana 279 in 104.2 overs (Jitender Singh 102, Sarandeep Singh 6-98) vs Punjab 233-2 in 89 overs (Vikram Rathore 80, Yuvraj Singh batting 131); J-Kashmir 113 & 116-2 in 26 overs (Amit Pal Singh batting 67, Dhruv Mahajan batting 25) vs Delhi 436-9 decl in 117.4 overs (Devender Sharma 91, Mithun Manhas 139, Vijay Dahiya 57, Nikhil Chopra 54; V Sharma 3-90)Rajasthan take crucial leadJAIPUR: Finehalf centuries by Saket Bhatia and Sanjeev Sharma and their 122-run sixth-wicket stand helped Rajasthan to a handy first innings lead over Madhya Pradesh.Brief scores: MP 315 vs Rajasthan 372-6 (Anshu Jain 50, Nikhil Doru 87, Saket Bhatia batting 72, Sanjeev Sharma 54)
