Azharuddin slams double hundred

PANAJI, NOV 8: Former Indian Captain Mohammad Azharuddin made a telling statement with his bat while cracking an unbeaten 200 256b, 340m...

PANAJI, NOV 8: Former Indian Captain Mohammad Azharuddin made a telling statement with his bat while cracking an unbeaten 200 256b, 340m, 12215;4, 6215;6 in the Ranji Trophy match against Goa here today. The Hyderabad skipper8217;s heroics saw his team rake up a massive 592 before the innings was declared. In reply, Goa were 49 without loss at close.

Brief Scores: Hyderabad 592 in 152.2 overs Daniel Manohar 55, Nanda Kishore 88, VVS Laxman 131, Mohd Azharuddin 200 n.o., Venka Pratap 54; Shadab Jakati 3-115 vs Goa 49-0 in 22 overs.

Vijay, Naidu shine
BANGALORE: Defending champions Karnataka8217;s conservative approach notwithstanding their bowlers prised out two wickets to have Kerala at 34 for two from 16 overs at stumps. Earlier, Karnataka were all out for 483 about 22 minutes after tea.

Overnight 251 for two, Karnataka were served well by A Vijay and Thilak Naidu 93: 150b, 15215;4. Vijay went on to notch his maiden Ranji hundred while making 122 368b, 451m, 16215;4.

Brief Scores: Karnataka 483 in 164 overs Barrington Rowland 106, A Vijay 122, Thilak Naidu 93, Anand Katti 45, GN Umesh 32; Ramprakash 3-112 vs Kerala 34-2 in 16 overs

TN struggling
VISAKHAPATNAM: Tamil Nadu were struggling at 149 for five in their first innings in reply to Andhra8217;s 305 on the second day of the four-day South Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match at the Municipal Corporation Stadium here. Resuming at the overnight score of 251-7, Andhra were bowled out ten minutes before lunch after adding 54 runs.

Brief Scores: Andhra 305 in 120.2 overs Amit Pathak 72, Y Venugopala Rao 33, H Watekar 41, Y Ranganath 45; T Kumaran 3-85, V Sivaramakrishnan 5-61 vs TN 149-5 in 57 overs Madan Gopal 60, V Saravanan batting 45; N Madhukar 4-40

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Dharmani8217;s triple ton
LUDHIANA: Punjab scored an inning and 288-run win over Jammu and Kashmir to gather maximum points eight from their four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match here today. Punjab thus raised their points tally to 24 after three games. The highlight however was a phenomenal triple century by Pankaj Dharmani, who remained unbeaten with 305 30215;4, 2215;6.

Brief Scores: Jamp;K 171 amp; 161 in 33.2 overs Sanjay Singh 46 n.o., Pardeep Bali 31; Reetinder Sodhi 5-64, Navdeep Singh 3-47 lost to Punjab 620-6 decl in 154 overs Vikram Rathore 114, Pankaj Dharmani 305 n.o., Harminder Jugnu 106 n.o; Pardeep Bali 4-161.

Innings win for Haryana
GURGAON: Haryana inflicted a huge innings and 94-run defeat over Services with over a day to spare in their North Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match here today.

Brief scores: Haryana 502-4 decl bt Services 100 amp; 308 CD Thomson 85 n.o., Narender Singh 41, Pankay Maitrey 52, Sayeed Javed 47; Pradeep Jain 4-50, Feroz Ghayas 3-82 by an innings amp; 94 runs.

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HP fight back
MANDI: Himachal Pradeh were 215 for four in their second innings after being forced to follow on against against Delhi on the third day of their four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Paddal ground here today.

Brief Scores: Delhi 573-7 decl vs HP 244 in 64 overs Yashwinder Singh 53, Jaswant Rai 70; Sandeep Angurala 4-80 amp; 215-4 in 60 overs Nischal Gaur batting 53, Rajiv Nayyar 42, Yashwinder Singh 40, Sangram Singh batting 55; Sunil Joshi 2-22.