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Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad settle for a draw
Natarajan Sriram - 7 October 2000
Rain affected more than half a day's play as Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad
settled for a tame draw in their KSCA Coca Cola Under-25 Tournament
match at the Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wodayar Sports Complex in
Bangalore on Saturday.
Play started only at 14.15 hours on the third and final day due to a
continuous drizzle in the morning. Resuming at the overnight score of
262 for 8, Hyderabad's first innings folded up at 290. Ravichandra
(104), who was stranded at 97 overnight, completed his century in no
time. However he was the first to go when he was caught at square leg
by K Velmurugan off DS Doss. Then Fatima Reddy (17 notout) and
Mallikarjun (6) took the score on to 290 when Mallikarjun found
himself stranded out of his crease.
Tamil Nadu in reply made a disasterous start to their second innings
losing opener Ravindra John (0) off the fifth ball of the innings when
he offered a catch to Saberwal off Ghouse Baba. Then the other opener
S Badrinath (3) and N Lokesh (19) took the score upto 26. Badrinath
was the next to be dismissed when he gave a chance to Fatima Reddy at
midwicket off the bowling of Ghouse Baba. Ghouse Baba claimed his
third wicket of the innings, that of Lokesh, when he shattered the
batsman's defences.
C Hemanth Kumar (11) and R Satish (10) then took the score on to 49
for 3 when play was called off for the day. Tamil Nadu got 5 points
while Hyderabad had to be content with three. Tamil Nadu now take on
Karnataka in the finals which is to be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium
in Bangalore from October 9 to 11.
© CricInfo
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