Delhi eye outright win

Former champions Delhi are on the verge of scoring an outright win over Tamil Nadu...

Former champions Delhi are on the verge of scoring an outright win over Tamil Nadu as they are 95 runs short with ten wickets in hand and a day to spare tomorrow in the Group A Ranji Trophy Super league match here today

Playing to their pre-match strategy of gaining the vital first innings lead and then go for a win (possibly with bonus point), Delhi have been successful thanks mainly to a superb bowling effort by leg break bowler, Chetanya Nanda, who bagged five victims and fine performance by wicket keeper Puneet Bisht who took four catches.

A Delhi win with a bonus point will help them total 24 points to be in line for a semifinal berth. Delhi made 338 in reply to Tamil Nadu’s first innings score of 268 and then skittled out the hosts for 174 in their second essay.

Brief scores: Tamil Nadu (1st innings) 268 & 174 (R Ramkumar 57,H K Gopinath 37; C Nanada 5/47) vs Delhi 338 (A Chopra 55, G Gambhir 84, S Dhawan 59, N Singh 34; C Suresh 4/83, S Kumar 3/30) & 10/0

Other scores

• Baroda: 255& 120/3 (AA Bilakhia 46, SA Gaekwad 58; B Mohanty 2/26) vs Orissa: 294 (SS Das 114, PR Sinha 44, P Jayachandra 44; R Pawar 6/66 Sumit Singh 3/58)

• Maharashtra: 276 & 18/3 (V Kumar 3/3) vs Karnataka: 545 (C Raghu 67, Y Goud 122, B Chipli 135 n.o.; A Joshi 4/133)

• Uttar Pradesh: 336 & 294/3 dec (Kaif 100 no, Ravikant Shukla 70) vs Hyderabad: 193& 55/2 (Manohar 28 no)

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• Himachal Pradesh: 280 & 122 (Mathur 7/49) lost to Rajasthan: 218 & 185/1 (Saxena 101no, Bishnoi 63 no) beat by 9 wickets