Second victory for Kerala

CHENNAI, DEC. 6. Kerala carved out its second successive win in the Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament defeating Andhra by 23 runs at the SPIC-YMCA grounds here on Wednesday.

Andhra put Kerala in to bat on a pitch that was offering uneven bounce and restricted it to 137. But Kerala fought back dismissing Andhra for 114.

The scores:

Kerala: M.P. Sorab b Y.S. Ranganath 30; C. Sanju b Noor Md Khan 17; Prasanth C. Menon c & b Venugopala Rao 8; Ajay Kudua c G.N. Srinivas b Venugopala Rao 26; Sunil Oasis b Madhukar 23; Chandra Shekhara (run out) 9; Ananthapadmanabhan (run out) 0; Sreekumar Nair (run out) 1; Hari Krishnan st Prasad Reddy b Y.S. Ranganath 3; Tinu Yohannan st Prasad Reddy b Y.S. Ranganath 0; Fazil Muhammed (not out) 2; Extras (lb-3, w-11, nb- 4) 18; Total (all out in 47.3 overs) 137.

Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-61, 3-74, 4- 119, 5-121, 6-123, 7-125, 8-134, 9-134.

Andhra bowling: N. Madhukar 9-0-24-1; K.S. Shahabuddin 8.3-1-23- 0; Y. Venugopala Rao 9-1-19-1, Noor Md Khan 4-1-13-1; V.J.T. Ram Mohan 8-0-30-1; Y.S. Ranganath 9-0-25- 3.

Andhra: L.N. Prasad Reddy c Sanju b Tinu Yohannan 0; Amit Pathak c Sorab b Sunil Oasis 7, G.N. Srinivas c Oasis b Ananthapadmanabhan 24, Y. Venugopala Rao st Hari Krishnan b Ananthapadmanabhan 50; R.V. CH. Prasad c Hari Krishnan b Sreekumar Nair 3; I. Srinivas c & b Chandra Sekhara 2; Noor Md Khan c Sanju b Sreekumar Nair 5; Shahabuddin c Hari Krishnan b Sreekumar Nair 0; Y.S. Ranganath (run out) 12; N. Madhukar b Tinu Yohannan 2; V.J.T. Ram Mohan (not out) 0; Extras (w-8, nb-1) 9; Total (all out in 46.1 overs) 114.

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-16, 3-35, 4-44, 5-59, 6-83, 7-83, 8-103, 9-114.

Kerala bowling: Tinu Yohannan 8.1-0-22- 2; S. Oasis 10-1-25-1; Sreekumar Nair 9-3-16-3; Ananthapadmanabhan 10-0-27-2; Fazil Muhammed 5-1-9-0; Chandra Shekhara 4-0-15-1.

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