Bad light hampers Railways’ chances; Tamil Nadu, Baroda pick up crucial points
By IANSThursday, November 12, 2009
NEW DELHI - Bad light robbed Railways chances of getting a first innings lead against Himachal Pradesh, while Tamil Nadu and Baroda bagged crucial points with their first innings lead on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Super League Thursday.
Due to bad light play at the Karnail Singh Stadium here play started 64 minutes late and only 45 overs were possible before an early stumps on the third day between Railways and Himachal Pradesh.
Resuming at overnight score of 34 for no loss, Himachal were 125 for two in the first innings, in reply to Railways 419, after not out batsmen Paras Dogra (35) and Vinit Indulkar (16) left the field after an hour’s play in the post lunch session due to bad light.
Overnight batsman Bhavin Thakkar (20) fell early but Sangram (50) and Dogra milked 60 runs off the Railways spinner.
With light drizzle in the evening, the match is expected to start late the both the teams are likely to end up with one point each.
In Kolkata, former India captain Sourav Ganguly scored a fine 76, and also got his 15,000 first class runs, but couldn’t prevent Baroda from taking a slim first-innings lead of 14 runs and three valuable points at the Eden Gardens. Chasing Baroda’s 307, Bengal were all out for 293 runs in the first innings. At stumps, Baroda were 58 for one in the second innings and had stretched the lead to 72.
Brief scores (Day II):
At Delhi: Railways 419 all out. Himachal Pradesh 125/2 (Sangram Singh 50, Paras Dogra 35 batting
At Delhi: Delhi 154 all out and 255/9 (Shikhar Dhawan 100, Rajat Bhatia 64). Karnataka 260 all out.
At Kolkata: Baroda 307 all out and 58/1. Bengal 293 all out (Sourav Ganguly 76, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 67).
At Rajkot: Uttar Pradesh 395 and 72/3. Saurashtra 267 all out
At Mohali: Punjab 221 and 307/9. Hyderabad 193
At Ahmedabad: Gujarat 343. Tamil Nadu 357/6 (Murali Vijay 91, Arun Karthik 87)
At Mumbai: Mumbai 184/3 (Wasim Jaffer 103 batting, Prashant Naik 67). Orissa
