Innings defeat, curtains for Vadodara

VADODARA, MARCH 7: All the hype, created by becoming West Zone champions and defeating Mumbai in Mumbai, amounted to zilch as Vadodara cr...

VADODARA, MARCH 7: All the hype, created by becoming West Zone champions and defeating Mumbai in Mumbai, amounted to zilch as Vadodara crashed to an ignominous innings defeat against Punjab, and went out of the reckoning for a knock-out berth, in the Super League match today.

Vadodara caved in to rookie left arm spinner Navdeep Singh after adding 15 runs. Navdeep gave away five runs in the six overs he bowled to pack off six batsmen.

Punjab (1st innings): 372

Vadodara (1st innings): 176

Vadodara (2nd innings, overnight 162-3): Connor Williams c Dharmani b Navdeep 70, R Swaroop b Chandar 23, Satyajit Parab c A Sharma b Navdeep 4, Jacob Martin c Jugnu b Chandar 19, Himanshu Jadhav b Navdeep 44, Tushar Arothe c & b Navdeep 0, Moinuddin Kadri c Mongia b Navdeep 0, Darshan Mulherkar b Chandar 4, Bobby Badola c Dharmani b Navdeep 4, L Sivaramakrishnan c & b Navdeep 0, Arjun Chawda (not out) 0.

Extras (lb 3, nb 6): 9.

Total (all out in 76.4 overs) 177.

Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-52, 3-81, 4-165, 5-165,6-166, 7-169, 8-177, 9-177.

Bowling: Bhushan 3-0-8-0, S Sharma 4-1-13-0, Navdeep 31-9-56-7, Chandar 31.4-5-85-3, A Sharma 7-1-12-0.

Hyderabad stay on top

Hyderabad: Hyderabad and Rajasthan played out a tame draw on the concluding day of the Super League match here today. Hyderabad logged five points on the basis of their first innings lead.

Hyderabad (1st innings): 324

Rajasthan (1st innings): 272

Hyderabad (2nd innings, overnight 120-3): Arvind Shetty c Jain b K Kumar 12, Nanda Kishore lbw K Kumar 12, Daniel Manohar b J Sharma 25, VVS Laxman b Dave 51, Vanka Pratap lbw K Kumar 38, Vinay kumar (not out) 66, MV Sridhar c & b J Sharma 8, Yuvraj Singh c Jain b Kapoor 15, Venkatapathi Raju (not out) 13. Extras (b1, lb9, w1) 11. Total (for 7 wickets decl in 86.5 overs): 251.

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Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-26, 3-83, 4-134, 5-150, 6-182, 7-228.

Bowling: Shamsheer 17-5-37-0, K Kumar 21-6-44-3, Kapoor 22.5-4-78-1, J Sharma 14-1-57-2, Dave 12-3-25-1.

Rajasthan (2nd innings): Anshu Jain lbw K Singh21, Gagan Khoda b Raju 19, Anil Singh Parmar (not out) 37, Manish Singh c Pratap b Raju 4, Vigesh Bhatnagar (run out) 15, Krishna Kumar Sharma (not out) 6. Extras (b5, lb1, nb1) 7. Total (for 4 wickets in 32 overs) 109.

Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-47, 3-71, 4-89.

Bowling: NP Singh 4-1-8-0, Manohar 2-0-16-0, Raju 13-3-23-2, K Singh 12-0-52-1, Laxman 1-0-4-0.