da heads bet： Ludhiana: A rich haul of five for 64 by medium pacer Reetinder Sodhiand a triple century by Pankaj Dharmani enabled Punjab to rout Jammu &Kashmir by an innings and 288 runs on the penultimate day of the fourday North Zone Ranji Trophy match at the
Vinod Saxena09-Nov-1999Ludhiana: A rich haul of five for 64 by medium pacer Reetinder Sodhiand a triple century by Pankaj Dharmani enabled Punjab to rout Jammu &Kashmir by an innings and 288 runs on the penultimate day of the fourday North Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Punjab Agriculture Universityground here on Monday.Punjab resumed at 452 for six with Dharmani on 214 and Harminder Jugnuon 30 and after adding 168 runs without any further loss declaredtheir innings at 620 for six at the stroke of lunch. Dharmani scored atriple century which is the highest individual score for Punjab in theRanji Trophy. The earlier record was 298 by Gursharan Singh againstBengal in 1988-89. Dharmani’s marathon innings (305*) came from 479balls during a ten hour stay at the wicket. His chanceless knockconsisted of 30 hits to the fence and two mighty sixes.Jugnu also scored his first century while playing his 13th match. Hescored an unbeaten 106 with the help of seven boundaries and twosixes. He faced 120 balls and stayed at the crease for 224minutes. The pair added an unfinished 231 runs for the seventh wicket.J & K was under tremendous pressure when they commenced their secondinnings. Medium pacer Reetinder Sodhi bowled a tight line and lengthand accounted for five wickets. Navdeep Singh (3 for 47) and SarandeepSingh (2 for 16) assisted Sodhi as the innings folded up for 37minutes after tea for 161. Tailender Sanjay Sharma (46*), Pradeep Bali(31) and Dhruv Mahajan (29) put up some resistance.With this win Punjab took their points tally to 24 from three fixtureswhile J & K has only three points from an identical number of matches.