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Indians make it look so easy

Sports Reporter
The first SAARC c(ieket tournament retained the course charted from Day One as India register-
ed a massive rttne-wlcket victory against arch-rivals Pakistan at the Dhaka Stadium
A raid-innings collapse triggered by the Indian spinners saw Pakistan end up with a rather dismal total of 195 and the experienced Indian batsmen saw thetr side home and dry with nearly five overs and nine wickets to spare.
As has been the trend so far, Manlnder Singh asked Pakistan to make first use of the wicket after having won the toss in the morning. The new wicket with very little grass looked full of runs and the Pakistani opening duo of Shahid Anwar and Basit Alt gave their side a bright start.
Indian newball pair of the Test experienced Salil Ankola and Ashish Winston Zaidi made little Impact on the batsmen as Basit All In particular drove, pulled and flicked the bowlers all around. The introduction of Abey Kuruvllla, perhaps the tallest player of the competition. did not help things for the Indians. None of the Indian seamers got any appreciable movement in the air although the ball seamed around a bit In the initial overs. Zaidi, who had been to Dhaka with the under-19 Indian team In 1989 appeared the quickest off the wicket of the three Indian pacemcn but he was erratic.
The opening pair put on 55 runs for the first wicket In 10.1 overs when Manlnder started a double spin attack — off-spinner Rajesh Chauvan from the Paltan end and Manlnder himself from the pavilion end.
Meanwhile, Shahid Anwar, the taller and more sedate of the two openers, had left, leg before to Ankola while attempting an unnecessary across-the-line stroke, Then Basit, the hard-hitting, stocky batsman tried a cut against a ball from Rajesh Chauvan that went straight for a change and kept pretty close to the wicket. He managed a tickle and Nayan Mongla who toured England with the Indian Test team in 1990 as the second wicketkeeper, gloved him without any fuss to make Pakistan 74 for two wickets.
Zahid Fazal, a highly rated one-drop batsman who fell from grace after Pakistan's World Cup victory in last March, opened his account with an elegant wristy flick past deep backward fence but was beaten in the air by a held-back delivery from Chauvan to be bowled neck and crop for
Both Manlnder and Chauvan were bowling beautifully, keeping the Pakistani • batsmen guessing all the time with clever variation of pace, spin and flight. Manlnder, who has won 34 Test caps so far. spun a web around Saeed Azad and Aamir Hanif. His armers and the faster ones that at times squatted off the wicket made life miserable for the young Pakistani batsmen and a rather frustrated Azad committed hara kiri by attempting another extravagant cut off a simple off-break from Chauvan only to see his bails dislodged.
Aamir Bashir came and went, leg before to a Maninder delivery that probably came with the arm and skipper Moin Khan’s rescue act was cut short by a slightly dubious run out decision with the batsman on 23. Indian wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia whipped the bails off from a throw from the deep with. Moin Khan scrambling home for the second run.
Aamir Hanif was the lone ranger around with wickets falling at an alarmingly regular
frequency. He hit Ankola with the tide over midwicket for a beautiful pick-up off the hip for a sixer. A bad mix-up between him and Raj Hana resulted In Hanlfs departure with both
the batsmen stranded at one end.
Raj Hans, the only Hindu in the Pakistan team, remained unbeaten on 18 as left-arm spinner Ajay Sharma hastened the close of the Pakistan Innings with three quick wickets that fell mainly because of the Indiscretion and pointless impatience of the Pakistani lower order batsmen.
Moin's elder brother
Nadeem Khan was bowled by Sharma for nine, Tanvir Mehdi hoisted the Indian test player to be caught on the tong-off boundary by Zaidi for a blob and last man Maqsood Rana scooped one to Manlnder at midwicket for two.
Manlnder, the delicate Sikh with a red turban, was the pick of the Indian bowlers with figures of one for 17 from his quota of nine overs whicl. included two maidens.
Rajesh Chauvan was the man behind Pakistan's total of 195 all out from 44.2 overs with figures of three for 25 from nine overs.
Ajay Sharma also bagged three wickets for 28 runs from 7.2 overs.
India started cautiously with Tanvir Mehdi and Maqsood Rana turning In a fiery spell from the pavilion and Paltan end respectively. Tanveer, who was with the Pakistan team that toured England last summer, appeared' to be the quickest of all the pacemen in this tournament but the Indian openers took their time to settle down and with the pitch offering little or no assistance
to the quicker bowlers gradually made thetr presence felt with handsome, authoritative strokes tn front of the wicket.
Sidhu, the other Sikh In the Indian team apart from skip-
crease.
Vinod Kambli. the dark. Afro-haired left-hander, looked a bit cramped initially with his high backllft but found little resistance tn his way to try and find hts bearings.
He and Sidhu wrapped things up for India in 40.4 overs with Sidhu remaining unbeaten on 95. made off 116 balls, five short of what would have been a most deserving century. He struck ten powerful fours and an effortless sixer over long-on off Raj Hans to level the score
Kambli was unbeaten on 46 with the help of four boundaries, off 58 balls.
Sidhu won the man-of-the-match award, a crest and a cash award of Taka 5.000 for his superb knock.
Reaction from the opposing camps over yesterday's umpiring was starkly contrasting.
The Indian manager and the captain were all praise for the Bangladeshi men tn white
However, Shafiq Ahmed, the Pakistani coach with the experience of nine Tests. was highly critical of umpiring. "I would not say it was partial, but it was very poor," sang out Shafiq.
The trainer culled the pitch as the villain. saying it gave the bowlers an unfair advantage In the morning and later turned out to be a sleeping beauty. "The toss was the most vital factor. The Indians would have been in a soup like us had they batted first.
"Anyway, they bowled well, particularly the spinners Maninder and Chauvan. Later Sidhu batted very professionally to ,snuff out any outside chance wc had." paused Shafiq.
per Maninder was particularly pleasing, playing between the V. The lean Sikh with a blue turban made amends for the reported shortage of runs In domestic cricket with a chanceless unbeaten Innings characterised with powerful drives, rapacious cuts and deft deflections to the leg side.
Together with Surinder Bhave, the other opener, Sidhu grinded the Pakistani attack
which looked short of penetration on a wicket that became increasingly benign.
The performance of the Pakistani spinners and fielders left a lot to be desired. Bhave also appeared to be a solid batsman with perhaps a little more penchant for playing square on both sides of the wicket. A wristy flick off Maqsood Rana by Bhave was one of the more memorable strokes of the day.
The pair put on 100 runs for the first wicket and another murky decision saw the back of Bhave, for 42 Inclusive of six fours. He stretched forward to a diagonal delivery from part-time slow-medium bowler Shahid Anwar who bowls from a little wide of the