CHENNAI, February 6: Tirunavukkarasu Kumaran came to the rescue of hosts Tamil Nadu, reeling under the wrath of an obdurate Rahul Sapru, with a second five-wicket haul in three innings. Uttar Pradesh, who, were threatening to take the total to over 500, had to rest content with 460 but gave back in kind by dismissing two of Tamil Nadu's leading batsmen, Vasanth Kumar and WV Raman, today.ScoreboardUttar pradesh (1st innings): Rakesh Sharma c Paul b Kumaran 17, Jyoti Yadav c Vasanth b Devakar 22, Saurabh Shukla c Raman b Kumaran 164, Rizwan Shamshad b Devakar 6, Gyanendra Pandey c Paul b Devakar 62, Rahul Sapru c Paul b Kumaran 99, Manoj Mudgal c Sriram b Venkataramana 41, Md Saif st Paul b Sriram 19, Ubaid Kamal c Paul b Kumaran 5, Asif Jaffer (not out) 3 Musi Raza c Paul b Kumaran 0, Extras (lb-12, nb-10): 22. Total: (all out, 166.4 overs) 460.Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-49, 3-59, 4-210, 5-300, 6-374, 7-432, 8-452, 9-458.Bowling: Kumaran 30.4-4-96-5, Robin Singh 14-1-38-0, Devakar 44-15-81-3,Venkataramana 33-3-91-0, Chandramouli 29-9-90-0, Sriram 16-7-52-1.Tamil Nadu (1st innings): RC Vasanth Kumar c Shukla b Jaffer 1, WV Raman c Yadav b Jaffer 1, Sridharan Sriram (batting) 20, S Chandramouli (batting) 11, Extras (lb-2): 2. Total: (for 2 wkts, 13 overs) 35Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-12.Bowling: Kamal 5-0-15-0, Jaffer 5-2-17-2, Mohd Saif 1-0-2-0, Pandey 1-1-0-0, Musi Raza 1-0-1-0.
