Only small amounts of the tender so far have been procured, meaning NTPC was only able to import 9 million tons of coal in the year to end-March, short of its 16-million-ton target.
And, when the rain set in, despite striking 13 fours and three sixes from his 90 balls, that left a frustrated Gatting just one short of that first one-day ton.
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