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Avinash sends West tumbling

PALAKKAD, FEB. 19. Central Zone left-arm spinner Avinash Yadav grabbed seven wickets in a superb spell of 24 overs to send West Zone crashing to 169 on the second day of the four-day final of the Vinoo Mankad Trophy National under-19 inter-zone cricket championship here.

Avinash Yadav had been waiting in the shadows of his successful teammate and hunting partner, offie Akshay Wakhare for long. Akshay had picked 21 wickets from the last two matches at the Fort Maidan here while Avinash had only 10.

On Thursday, the 19-year-old Avinash had his day in the sun, and on a bigger stage too. The UP Cricket Association Sports Hostel trainee, a member of the Indian team which won the under-19 Asia Cup in Pakistan last November, grabbed seven wickets to bowl out West in the last over of the day.

But despite taking a huge 198-run first innings lead Central may not enforce the follow-on tomorrow. "I would like to enforce the follow-on but my players want to bat tomorrow. But we haven't finalised anything yet,'' said the cheerful Central coach Shirish Joshi in the evening.

The scores:

Central Zone 367 in 113 overs (Shan-E-Alam 67, Tahir Abbas 49, Arvind Mann 82, Shalab Srivatsava 50, Praveen Kumar 89, Gautam Yadav three for 71) v West Zone 169 in 67.1 overs (Sumit Pawar 31, Parag More 25, Rakesh Kanojia 40, Avinash Yadav seven for 28). — Our Sports Reporter

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