Ali, Goud flay Vidarbha attack

NEW DELHI, November 7: Middle-Order batsmen Yere Goud and Raja Ali hammered a sedate Vidarbha bowling all over the ground to raise a possi...

NEW DELHI, November 7: Middle-Order batsmen Yere Goud and Raja Ali hammered a sedate Vidarbha bowling all over the ground to raise a possible match-winning score before Railways declared their first innings at 456 for six on the second day of their Central Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match here on Tueday.

Raja Ali hit a strokeful ton in making 112 while Goud was unlucky to miss The century by mere four runs as the two put on 153 runs for the fourth wicket partnership.

Ali and Goud8217;s 96 good work was backed by a scintillating unbeaten 52 by Santosh Sahu, who helped Railways cross 450 mark just an hour after tea.

Resuming at 153 for 2, Railways went about their job of amassing as many runs as possible. Goud struck 10 fours in his 181 ball knock, while Ali hit seven boundaries and smoted three sixes.

Scoreboard
Vidarbha 1st Innings: 89

Railways 1st Innings: A Pagnis c Gandhe b Jichkar 53, S Bangar lbw b Doshi 46, A Sharma c A Naidu b Piprode 49, Y Goud c Khare b Jichkar 96, R Ali c Atram b Piprode 112, P Rawat c Harbade b Gandhe 15, Santosh Sahu Not Out 52, T Pal Singh Not Out 8 Extras: b 6, lb 4, nb 15 25 TOTAL: for 6 wkts decl., 116 overs 456

Fall of wickets: 1-102, 2-145, 3-173, 4-330, 5-369, 6-436

Bowling: Abhijit Piprode 18-3-85-2, Chandrashekhar Atram 16-2-52-0, Pritam Gandhe 34-2-131-1, Sameer Khare 8-1-36-0, Manish Dosi 14-2-40-1, Amol Jichkar 26-2-102-2

Vidarbha 2nd Innings: A Deshpande batting 22, V Naidu batting 24 Extras: 0 TOTAL: for no loss in 12 overs 46 Bowling: Harinder Singh 4-0-12-0, Sanjay Bangar 4-0-19-0,Tejinder Pal Singh 2-0-9-0, Kulamani Parida 2-0-6-0MP pile 408

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GWALIOR: Hosts Madhya Pradesh piled up 408 in the first innings on the second-day of their four day Ranji Trophy match against Rajasthan here.

At draw of stumps, Rajasthan were 57 without no loss with openers Anshu Jain 20 and Vineet Saxena 19 at the crease.

The hosts could reach this score mainly due to a contribution of 77 from middle-order batsman Nikhil Patwardhan who was ably assisted by fast bowler Harvinder Singh Sodhi who made an unbeaten 70.

The other main scorers were opener J P Yadav who also made 70, Amay Khurasia 59 Chandrakant Pandit 24 and Sunil Lahore 37. MP resumed at 214 for 5this morning.

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For Rajasthan, both Sanjeev and Aslam took two wickets each.