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