Ranji Trophy: Tamil Nadu-Mumbai clash nicely poised
By IANSFriday, December 10, 2010
CHENNAI - With Tamil Nadu on 149 for four in reply to Mumbais first innings total of 238, their Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match was poised on a knife edge at stumps on third day here Friday.
The hosts did well to restrict Mumbai as seamer Lakshmipathy Balaji and off-break bowler S. Suresh Kumar took four wickets apiece.
Tamil Nadus reply was steady at best, but the loss of Subramaniam Badrinath (51) who has been in prolific form this season, somewhat weighed them down.
The home teams chances of picking up first innings lead points depend on the undefeated fifth wicket pair of Shrivasudevadas (21) and Rajagopal Sathish (16) who have put on 32 runs so far.
Score-board:
Mumbai (1st innings): Sahil Kukreja c Badrinath b Srinivas 17; Onkar Gurav c Badrinath b Balaji 0; Ajinkya Rahane b Balaji 49; Wasim Jaffer lbw Balaji 67; Abhishek Nayar lbw Suresh Kumar 20; Prashanth Naik (not out) 8; Iqbal Abdullah c Dinesh Karthik b Balaji 0; Ramesh Powar lbw Ganapathy 21; Harmeet Singh c Badrinath b Suresh Kumar 7; Javed Khan c Mukund b Suresh Kumar 0; Avishkar Salvi c Mukund b Suresh Kumar 0. Extras (b-4, lb-2, nb-5, w-3): 24. Total (all out, 82.5 overs): 238.
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-32, 3-127, 4-153, 5-181, 6-182, 7-220, 8-232, 9-238, 10-238.
Bowling: Lakshimpathy Balaji 15-3-32-4; Chandrasekar Ganapathy 9-3-18-1; V Arun Kumar 16-0-62-0; Aushik Srinivas 26-3-76-1; S Suresh Kumar 16.5-2-44-4.
Tamil Nadu (1st innings): Abhinav Mukund lbw Abdullah 13; Srikkanth Anirudha c Salvi b Abdullah 20; Subramaniam Badrinath c and b Harmeet Singh 51; K Dinesh Karthik b Nayar 19; K Shrivasudevadas (batting) 21; Rajagopal Sathish (batting) 16. Extras (lb-5, nb-4): 9. Total (for 4 wkts, 56 overs) 149.
Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-54, 3-101, 4-117.
Bowling: Avishkar Salvi 4-2-5-0; Javed Khan 2-0-9-0; Iqbal Abdullah 22-7-36-2; Ramesh Powar 17-4-46-0; Harmeet Singh 7-1-37-1; Abhishek Nayar 4-0-11-1.
