Delhi have their task cut out against gutsy Railways

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Delhi will face a sterner testagainst a quality Railways side when they square off in thesecond group A league encounter of...

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Delhi will face a sterner testagainst a quality Railways side when they square off in thesecond group A league encounter of the Ranji Trophy at theKarnail Singh Stadium, here tomorrow.

Delhi missed out on a chance to get full points againstAssam after failing to get 20 wickets in time to go for thekill.

Railways, on the other hand, spectacularly defended atarget of 93 by getting Uttar Pradesh all out for 72.

For Delhi, vice-captain Milind Kumar will be unavailablefor this game as he has been selected in the Board President'sXI squad for the New Zealand warm-up game.

Aditya Sachdeva has been drafted for this game in placeMilind.

It will be interesting to see what kind of thecombination Delhi skipper Ishant Sharma will go for in thisgame considering both his spinners -- left-arm orthodox MannanSharma and off-spinner Pulkit Narang -- didn't do well on adocile Kotla track.

The Karnail Singh track could have a bit more assistancefor pacers.

Delhi will again depend on their seasoned opened GautamGambhir, who started his season with a hundred along withNitish Rana.

Unmukt Chand's poor form is a worry which has nowcontinued for some seasons now. Unmukt is living on borrowedtime and would really need to step up his game to keep hisplace in the side.

For Railways, they won't get the services of their in-form leg-spinner Karn Sharma, who is out on India A duty.

Anureet Singh and Deepak Bansal are the two pacers forRailways, while batting mainstay will be Arindam Ghosh. PTIKHS CMKHS.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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