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Saturday, Dec 21, 2002

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Tamil Nadu sitting pretty

CHENNAI DEC. 20. Left-handers S. Sriram (94) and Hemang Badani (86) took their overnight third-wicket stand to 186 as Tamil Nadu, resuming at 144 for two, finished its first innings at 314, for a 192-run lead, on the second day of the four-day Ranji Trophy elite group `B' encounter at the Chidambaram Stadium, here, on Friday.

The host is in a position to gain a bonus point, rewarded for an innings or 10-wicket win, having reduced the visitor to 78 for four when play was called off, with 13 overs remaining, owing to bad light. Speedster L. Balaji accounted for both openers, of them B.B.C.C. Mohapatra clean bowled in the very first delivery of the innings.

At the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi, former champion Mumbai recovered to 248 from 101 for seven in its first innings, thanks to a 87-run stand between Ramesh Powar (71) and Sairaj Bahutule (67). In another encounter, Delhi came back with a bang at the Kotla to gain a vice-like grip over Andhra.

Among the other notable performers in the elite group matches were Punjab's Vineet Sharma (five for 22), Bengal's Saurashish Lahiri (five for 66) and Andhra's K.S. Shahabuddin (seven for 35).

* The scores:

Elite group `A': Mumbai 248 (Ramesh Powar 71, Sairaj Bahutule 67, K. Parida four for 93) v Railways 15 for no loss, in Delhi.

Himachal Pradesh 166 v Rajasthan 245 for seven (Gagan Khoda 84, Nikhil Doru 64, Sandeep Sharma three for 51), in Jaipur.

Andhra 198 & 97 (M. Suresh 38, Sarandeep Singh four for 24, Amit Bhandari four for 34) v Delhi 111 (Mithun Manhas 35, K.S. Shahabuddin seven for 35) & 57 for one (Akash Chopra (batting) 35), in Delhi.

Hyderabad 395 (Daniel Manohar 64, A.T. Rayudu 134, D. Vinay Kumar 63, N. Arjun Yadav 37, Saurashish Lahiri five for 66) v Bengal 122 for three (Deep Dasgupta (batting) 37), in Hyderabad.

Group `B': Orissa 122 & 78 for four v Tamil Nadu 314 (S. Sriram 94, Hemang Badani 86, S. Badrinath 37), in Chennai.

Punjab 208 & 158 for four (Dinesh Mongia 86, Samrat Sharma (batting) 37) v Uttar Pradesh 111 (Vineet Sharma five for 22), in Mohali.

Baroda 498 (Satyajit Parab 139, Connor Williams 67, Rakesh Solanki 90, Tushar Arothe 36, Irfan Pathan (not out) 48, Rakesh Patel 45, Shyamal Bhatt four for 96) v Gujarat 60 for two, in Ahmedabad.

Plate championship: Group `A': Tripura 102 & 52 for one v Vidarbha 445 (P. Vivek 113, Chandrasekhar Atram 61, Madhusudhan Acharya 55, Nitin Gawande 50, Tushar Shah four for 125, Jayant Debnath four for 102), in Nagpur.

Goa 311 (Mandar Phadke 125, R. Rane 49, S. Amonkar 52, J. Jobanputra seven for 83) v Saurashtra 189 for five (F. Bambhania 46, Rakesh Dhruv (batting 31), in Rajkot.

Kerala 478 for eight decl. (C. Hemant Kumar 150, Sreekumar Nair 133, Sunil Oasis 71, Ajay Kudua 35, Arun Sharma four for 123) v Services 51 for one, in Delhi.

Group `B': Bihar 225 v Haryana 292 for seven (Joginder Sharma 80, Jitender Singh 73, Sumit Sharma (batting) 34, S.B. Chaubey three for 70), in Gurgaon (Haryana).

Jammu & Kashmir 131 & 45 for one v Maharashtra 397 (Niranjan Godbole 68, Abhijit Kale 35, Ranjit Khirid 89, Kashinath Khadkikar 38, Satyajit Satbhai 40, Iqbal Siddiqui 33, Surinder Singh four for 75, Ashwani Gupta four for 92), in Pune.

Madhya Pradesh 314 (Devendra Bundela 72, S. Abbas Ali 52, B. Tomar 60, Venkatesh Prasad three for 82, Sunil Joshi three for 89) v Karnataka 134 for two (J. Arun Kumar 46, Deepak Chougule 51 batting), in Gwalior.

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