{"id":159,"date":"2009-02-19T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:15:32","slug":"ajay-mani-stars-for-hp-in-delhis-humbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/news\/domestic\/2009\/february\/news-20090219-28.html","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Mani stars for HP in Delhi&#8217;s humbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Una (HP):<\/strong> Akash Chopra&#8217;s century went in vain as Ajay Mani struck an unbeaten 70 to help Himachal Pradesh inflict a two-wicket defeat on Delhi in a closely fought Ranji Trophy North Zone match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Opting to bat first, Delhi put up a competitive 281 for five, riding on Chopra&#8217;s 100 and Rajat Bhatia&#8217;s unbeaten 77.<\/p>\n<p>Vikrant Mallik claimed two wickets for the hosts. Chasing a stiff target, Mani and Sangram Singh (57) held their nerves to steer the hosts to their third consecutive victory with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Pradeep Sangwan was the most successful bowler for the visitors with a three-wicket haul.<\/p>\n<p>For Delhi, who had earlier humbled Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, it was their first defeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brief score:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delhi: 281\/5 in 50 overs (Akash Chopra 100, Rajat Bhatia 77 not out, Vikrant Mallik 56\/2 wickets).<\/p>\n<p>Himachal Pradesh: 282\/8 in 49.2 overs (Ajay Mani 70 not out, Sangram Singh 57, Pradeep Sangwan 51\/3 wickets).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Una (HP): Akash Chopra&#8217;s century went in vain as Ajay Mani struck an unbeaten 70 to help Himachal Pradesh inflict a two-wicket defeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cricketnirvana","author_link":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/author\/cricketnirvana\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":160,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":160,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"News"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketnirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}