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Wills trophy: 1999-2000

Mohandas Menon

Match No 1 (1st Quarter-final): Board President's XI vs Mumbai
At M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on 11 January, 2000.
Board President's XI 272-6 in 50 overs (SS Das 133, Jyoti Yadav 45, Sanjay Bangar 38)
Mumbai 244 in 48.1 overs (Wasim Jaffer 43, AA Muzumdar 50; T Kumaran 5-37 in 9.1 overs)
Result : Board President's XI won by 28 runs.

Match No: 2 (2nd Quarter-final): Bengal vs Punjab
At MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai on 11 January, 2000.
Punjab 196 in 49.4 overs (A Kakkar 41, P Dharmani 33, Amit Sharma 39; S Panda 3-36 in 9.4 overs)
Bengal 197-5 in 45.2 overs (S Kalyani 81 not out, SS Karim 32; Sandeep Sharma 3-34)
Result: Bengal won by 5 wickets.

Match No: 3 (3rd Quarter-final): Karnataka vs Wills XI At Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 11 January, 2000
Wills XI: 215 in 49 overs (GK Khoda 55, Ashu Dani 65, P Mullick 33 not out; Johnson 3-42 in 10 overs)
Karnataka: 216-8 in 48 overs (J Arun Kumar 41, VST Naidu 71, S Somashekar 35; Sanghvi 3-34 in 10 overs)
Result: Karnataka won by 2 wickets.

Match No: 4 (1st Semi-final): Bengal vs Board President's XI AT MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk Chennai on 14 January, 2000
Indian Board President's XI: 263-7 in 46 overs (Jyoti Yadav 52, M Azharuddin 56, Sanjay Bangar 51 not out, Vijay Dahiya 30)
Bengal: 257 in 45.5 overs (S Panda 49, RS Gavaskar 71, SS Karim 50; Gokulakrishnan 5-55 in 8.5 overs, 3-45 in 10 overs)
Result: Indian Board President's XI won by 6 runs.

Match No: 5 (2nd Semi-final): Karnataka vs Madhya Pradesh At M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on 14 January, 2000
Karnataka 293 in 49.3 overs (J Arun Kumar 71, MR Beerala 78, AR Yalvigi 32; S Abbas Ali 3-37 in 10 overs);
Madhya Pradesh 293-9 in 50 overs (AR Khurasiya 79, DS Bundela 47, Santosh Sahu 67 not out; Mansoor Ali Khan 5-54 in 10 overs)
Result: Match Tied (Karnataka advance to the final on spin of a coin)

Match No: 6 (Final): Karnataka vs Board President's XI At Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Vishakapatanam on 17 January, 2000
Board President's XI: 262-9 in 50 overs (Jyoti P Yadav 56, ND Modi 51,Sanjay Bangar 71 not out, J Gokulakrishna 33; D Ganesh 3-60 in 10 overs).
Karnataka 165 in 40.4 overs (S Somasundar 38; Murali Kartik 4-17 in 8.4 overs)
Result: Board President's XI won by 97 runs.
This was Board President's fifth title. They had previously won in 1983-84, 1987-88, 1991-92 and 1992-93.

TOP RUN-GETTERS IN THE WILLS TROPHY, 1999-00 (Qualification: 50 or more runs)

  For M Inns No Runs Hs Avg 100 50 0 S/R
Sanjay Bangar BPXI 3 3 2 160 71* 160.00 - 2 - 116.79
Jyoti Yadav BPXI 3 3 - 153 56 51.00 - 2 - 72.86
J Arun Kumar KAR 3 3 - 138 71 46.00 - 1 - 72.25
SS Das BPXI 3 3 1 138 133* 69.00 1 - 1 89.03
MR Beerala KAR 3 3 - 102 78 34.00 - 1 - 72.34
SJ Kalyani BEN 2 2 1 95 81* 95.00 - 1 - 81.90
RS Gavaskar BEN 2 2 - 87 71 43.50 - 1 - 65.91
SS Karim BEN 2 2 - 82 50 41.00 - 1 - 89.13
M Azharuddin BPXI 3 3 - 80 56 26.67 - 1 1 86.02
AR Khurasiya MPR 1 1 - 79 79 79.00 - 1 - 100.00
VST Naidu KAR 3 3 - 76 71 25.33 - 1 - 58.92
AR Yalvigi KAR 3 3 - 70 32 23.33 - - - 118.64
S Sahu MPR 1 1 1 67 67* - - 1 - 106.35
Ashu Dani WXI 1 1 - 65 65 65.00 - 1 - 64.36
S Somesekhar KAR 3 3 - 59 35 19.67 - - - 60.83
S Somasundar KAR 3 3 - 57 38 19.00 - - - 47.11
GK Khoda WXI 1 1 - 55 55 55.00 - 1 - 61.11
ND Modi BPXI 1 1 - 51 51 51.00 - 1 - 61.45
AA Muzumdar MUM 1 1 - 50 50 50.00 - 1 - 56.82


TOP WICKET-TAKERS IN THE WILLS TROPHY, 1999-00 (Qualification: 3 or more wickets)

  For M Balls Mdns Runs Wkts Avg 4w 5w Best R/O S/R
K Murali BPXI 3 172 5 104 9 11.56 1 - 4-17 3.63 19.11
Mansur Ali Khan KAR 3 150 - 133 8 16.63 1 - 4-54 5.32 18.75
T Kumaran BPXI 3 151 2 120 6 20.00 - 1 5-37 4.77 25.17
J Gokulakrishnan BPXI 2 101 - 88 5 17.60 - 1 5-55 5.23 20.20
DJ Johnson KAR 3 180 2 157 5 31.40 - - 3-42 5.23 36.00
D Ganesh KAR 3 174 - 163 5 32.60 - - 3-60 5.62 34.80
S Panda BEN 2 106 1 95 4 23.75 - - 3-36 5.38 26.50
AR Kapoor BPXI 3 138 - 99 4 24.75 - - 2-24 4.30 34.50
Sandeep Sharma PUN 1 54 1 34 3 11.33 - - 3-34 3.78 18.00
RL Sanghvi WXI 1 60 2 34 3 11.33 - - 3-34 3.40 20.00
S Abbas Ali MPR 1 60 - 37 3 12.33 - - 3-37 3.70 20.00
U Chatterjee BEN 2 114 - 75 3 25.00 - - 2-27 3.95 38.00
SS Lahiri BEN 2 120 - 83 3 27.67 - - 2-33 4.15 40.00

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