Delhi in sight of innings lead

Delhi are within striking distance of winning the battle for first innings lead and with it two points in their Ranji Trophy Elite Division ...

Delhi are within striking distance of winning the battle for first innings lead and with it two points in their Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A league match against Karnataka at the Jamia Millia ground here today.

At the end of the penultimate day, the visitors were just five runs away from avoiding the follow-on with the last two wickets remaining. Replying to the home team’s first innings score of 427, Karnataka had reached 273-8.

The dismissals of two well-set batsmen in the afternoon session put Karnataka on the defensive after being 118-2 at one stage in the post-lunch session.

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Opener Robin Uthappa, a member of the Indian team which won the Asia U-19 Cup in Pakistan a couple of years ago and participated in the U-19 World Cup in Dhaka earlier this year, fell to the guile of Delhi’s debutant leg-spinner Chetanya Nanda, 12 runs short of his second hundred of the season. He had scored 162 and shared a 324-run stand with Rowland Barrington (283) against Madhya Pradesh last month.

Sudhindra Shinde, playing his first match of the season, was another Karnataka batsman to impress on the slow turner but his dismissal for 52 came at the wrong time. As long Uthappa and Shinde were in the middle, the visitors had some hope of putting up a decent reply.

Of the Delhi spinners on view, leggie Chetanya Nanda looked the most impressive and deserved his 2-75 from 29.5 overs.

BRIEF SCORES

IN MUMBAI
Gujarat: 232 all out vs Mumbai: 451 (W Jaffer 86, A Muzumdar 131, NS Shetty 54; L Patel 2/87, A Makda 2/84, T Patel 2/106, K Damani 2/58)

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IN INDORE
Railways: 373 all out vs MP: 207 (N Ojha 67, D Bundela 49, S Abbas Ali 53 no; Harvinder Singh 3/56, J P Yadav 2/55, K Parida 5/62) and 15/1

IN DELHI
Delhi: 427/7 decl vs Karnataka: 237/8 (R Uthappa 88, S Shinde 52; Sarandeep Singh 2/73, C Nanda 2/75)

IN VISAKHAPATNAM
Bengal: 234 all out and 144 /8 (Arindam Das 23; K Sahabuddin 2/25, Kalyankrishna 2/20) vs Andhra: 188 all out (Venugopal Rao 39; A Lahiri 3/93, M Lodhgar 4/41)

IN HYDERABAD
Hyderabad: 246 all out and 210/9 (Anirudh Singh 43, D Vinay Kumar 75; Srivastava 4/46) vs UP: 325 all out (S Raina 49, R Shamshad 103, G Pandey 61; N P Singh 4/85, Vishnuvardhan 3/77)

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IN CHENNAI
TN: 244 all out and 190/3 (S Vidyut 99, S Badrinath 43 batting) vs Punjab: 218 (R Ricky 71; R Jesuraj 7/76)

IN AURUNGABAD
Assam: 201 all out and 153 all out (R Sathish 39; Siddiqui 3/52, Adhav 3/36) lost to Maharashtra: 400 all out ( H Kanitkar 42, K Aphale 55, D Mohan 122, I Siddiqui 59; Javed Zaman 3/78, A Konwar 4/110)

Form Book

		• Rajamani Jesuraj’s name doesn’t quite ring a bell but today he set the alarm for THE team of the season: Punjab. The Tamil Nadu pacer’s 7/76 meant Intikhab Alam for the first time in his debut season had a problem at hand — his team conceding the lead. With just one Ranji game in his CV since graduating from the junior circuit, Jesuraj struck at the heart of the Punjab batting. Among his seven scalps were Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Mongia. • If a place in the national squad saw Dhoni hitting a brilliant ton, Haryana all-rounder Joginder Sharma went one better. His dream spell (8/24) saw Vidarbha folding up for 57 — with just one batsman reaching double figures. Bangladesh are sure to put up a better show than Vidarbha and that’s where Joginder’s challenge lies. • Kulamani Parida hasn’t yet lost the drive despite the crooked logic of keeping him out of the national team. Another fiver — this time against MP — saw his team jump out of the relegation zone. His tally for this season is 13 from four matches but with Railways not in contention for the semis spot it will all have to wait for the 2005-06 season. • It was sunset for Assam in the Elite Division. The battle for the wooden spoon in Group A went Maharashtra’s way. Iqbal Siddiqui was the man responsible for Maharashtra’s survival; eight wickets in the match and 59 runs. • And finally a round of applause — or even a standing ovation — for the curator and groundstaff at the Gymkhana Ground at Hyderabad. The final day at the green pitch might see UP getting the better of the hosts. This would mean three results from three games for the venue. Those playing the charade about sporting surfaces should walk down to Hyderabad. • Meanwhile … left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju has announced his retirement from first class cricket after turning up for 100 games for Hyderabad.

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