Madhya Pradesh force a draw

Left-handed Amay Khurasia cracked five fours and a six in his 30 but trying to sweep a Kanwaljeet Singh delivery, he edged to Daniel Manohar at silly-point.

Hyderabad got five points by virtue of their first innings lead and have a tally of 13 points while Madhya Pradesh have eight points. Hyderabad had crushed Bihar by an innings and took first innings lead overVadodara.Hyderabad now play Haryana at Faridabad while Madhya Pradesh meet Bihar at Gwalior from March 4.

SCOREBOARD

Hyderabad 1st Innings: 536- 6 decl

Madhya Pradesh 1st Innings: 225.

Madhya Pradesh 2nd Innings: J Yadav not out 106; Kirti Patel c Yuvraj b Sridhar 35; Amay Khurasia c Daniel b Kanwaljeet 30; Prashant Dwivedi b Raju 17; Chandrakant Pandit lbw Sridhar 11; Nikhil Patwardhan not out 22; Extras b2, lb1, nb2: 5; Total for 4 wkts: 226.

Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-110, 3-161, 4-176.

Bowling: D Manohar 8-0-28-0, V Raju 20-12-19-1, N Singh 7-3-10-0, V Pratap 7-1-31-0, K Singh 21-9-59-1, R Sridhar 17-6-48-2, A Shetty 10-3-28-0.