Maharashtra’s prodigality lets TN batsmen off hook

At draw of stumps, the visitors were 282 for the loss of five wickets, with middle-order batsmen JR Madan Gopal at the crease, going strong on 62. After the departure of D Vasu, Madan Gopal and S Mahesh were at the crease when the stumps were drawn.

Scoreboard

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): Anand George c&b I Siddiqui 21, S Ramesh c Kale b Kanitkar 52, H Badani c Nair b Sane 92, S Sharath c Nair b Siddiqui 8, JR Madan Gopal batting 60, D Vasu c Kondhalkar b Nair 6, S Mahesh batting 0; Extras: (b9, lb8, nb11, w15) 43.

Total (for five wickets in 90 overs, 403 minutes) 282.

Fall-of-wickets: 1-76, 2-107, 3-138, 4-255, 5-282.

Bowling: Sachin Nair16-1-74-1, Iqbal Siddiqui 25-6-69-2, Ashutosh Agashe 14-4-28-0, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 16-3-40-1, Mandar Sane 16-1-46-1, Hemant Kinikar 3-0-8-0.

Parab misses ton

VADODARA: Jacob Martin could not reach the milestone but not much else went against Vadodara. Young Satyajit Parab came of age with 99 on the opening day of the Group A match against Hyderabad which saw the hosts score 223-5 at the ICPL ground.

Scoreboard

Vadodara (1st innings): Connor Williams lbw Vardhan 64, Harshad Mohite c Sridhar b Pratap 10, Satyajit Parab c Pratap b NP Singh 99, Jacob Martin c Youraj b Kanwaljeet 2, Himanshu Jadhav batting 32, Ajit Bhoite lbw NP Singh 0, RA Swaroop batting 4; Extras: (b2, lb1, nb6, w3) 12.

Total (for five wickets in 90 overs) 223.

Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-127, 3-134, 4-214, 5-216.

Bowling: Narendra Pal Singh 15-4-38-2, Vishnu Vardhan 15-5-35-1, Venka Pratap 5-2-15-1, Venkatpati Raju 29-9-49-0, Kanwaljeet Singh 20-2-72-1, VVS Laxman 6-1-11-0.

Gavaskar strikes form

CALCUTTA:Bengal were 264-4 at the end of the first day against Punjab in their Group A match at the Eden Gardens. Rohan Gavaskar was unbeaten on 70 with Saba Karim giving him company at 20.

Scoreboard

Bengal (1st innings): Devang Gandhi c Jugnu b Sharma 52, D Dasgupta c (sub) Ricky b Harbhajan 30, Nikhil Haldipur c Mongia b Bhusan 43, Rohan Gavaskar batting 70, Saurav Ganguly c Dharmani b Sodhi 35, Saba Karim batting 20; Extras (lb1, nb13): 14. Total (for 4 wkts in 80.1 overs): 264

Fall of wickets: 1-84, 2-94, 3-155, 4-207.

Bowling: Bhusan 21.1-4-85-1, Sharma 14-4-40-1, Harbhajan 23-4-78-1, Sodhi 16-5-33-1, Navdeep 6-0-27-0.

Das, Mullick hit tons

CUTTACK: Shib Sundar Das repaid the selectors’ confidence in appointing him the skipper on the eve of the match by notching up a sedate unbeaten century along with Pravanjan Mullick who made 113 to help Orissa seize the initiative on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Super League tie versus Delhi at the Barabati Stadium here on Saturday. The hostswere comfortably placed at 278 for three at draw of stumps.

Scoreboard

Orissa (1st innings): Shib Sundar Das batting 123, P Jayachandra c A Sharma b A Singh 9, Pravanjan Mullick c Sehwag b Chopra 113, Sanjay Raul c Dahiya b A Singh 31, Rashmi Parida batting 0; Extras (2 nb): 2. Total (for 3 wickets in 90 overs): 278

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-197, 3-274.

Bowling: A Singh 14-1-36-2, Jha 12-3-30-0, Sanghvi 21-1-61-0, Malhotra 2-0-7-0, Angurala 12-1-52-0, Chopra 24-1-74-1, Sehwag 2-0-13-0, Sharma 3-0-5-0.