Orissa rattle Maharashtra

Nightwatchman Iqbal Siddiqui scored his maiden hundred in the championship with determination, which propelled Maharashtra to surge ahead of the rivals first innings for the vital five points that were at stake.

Scoreboard

Orissa first innings: 245

Maharashtra first innings, overnight 35-1: Surendra Bhave c Das b Khan 36, Niranjan Godbole c Gopal b Mohanty 15, Iqbal Siddiqui c Mahapatra b Mohanty 116, Abhijit Kale c Raul b Khan 57, Shantanu Sugvekar c Gopal b Jaychandra 0, Siddharth Godbole b Jaychandra 9, Jaydeep Narse batting 11, Sanjay Kondhalkar batting 0;

Extras b4, lb12, nb17: 33.

Total for 6 wkts in 108 overs: 277.

Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-84, 3-207, 4-216, 5-230, 6-275.

Bowling: Mohanty 25-12-39-2; Barik 19-5-42-0 nb7; Jaychandra 16-1-44-2 nb6; Khan 28-5-81-2 nb4; Raul 12-3-32-0, Mullick 5-0-17-0; Das 3-0-6-0.

TN well poised

CHENNAI:

Tamil Nadu were in a strong position with 334 for six wickets in reply to Railway8217;s first innings score of 154 all out at close on the second day of the Super League cricket match here today.

Railways

first innings: 154

Tamil Nadu

1st innings: Anand George c Bhatia b D Singh 81, R C Vasanth Kumar lbw Karthik 29, Hemang Badani c D Singh b Karthik 35, S Sharath lbw Karthik 30, Mandanagopal batting 84, Robin Singh c Sharma b D Singh 0, Divakar Vasu c Rawat b Zaman 12, S Mahesh batting 27; Extras

lb7, w1, nb28: 36. Total

for six wickets in 130 overs: 334

Fall of wickets:

1-63, 2-165, 3-179, 4-237, 5-238, 6-254

Bowling:

Hussain 17-3-43-0, Zaman 20-5-54-1, Banger 12-2-44-0, Bhatia 3-0-13-0; Karthik 32-14-56-3; Parida 29-8-72-0; Singh 16-5-43-2; Rawat 1-0-2-0.

Karnataka score 389

BANGALORE:

Saurashtra were 219 for eight in their first innings in reply to host Karnataka8217;s 389 on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Super League cricket match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here today.

Karnataka added 74 runs to their overnight score of 315 for four before being all out. Saurashtra need another 29 runs to avoid follow-on.

SCOREBOARD

Karnataka

Ist innings, overnight 315-4:

S Somasundar c Merchant b Garsondia 3, J Arun Kumar c Manoj b Yusuf 151, F Khaleel c Tanna b Chawda 6, Vijay Bharadwaj not out 87, Tilak c Manoj b Chawda 0, A Vijay c Manoj b Garsondia 97, S Shiruguppi b Chawda 2, A Yalvigi lbw Chawda 2, D Ganesh b Chawda 0, Anand Katti c Manoj b Chawda 0, Umesh c Altaf b Kotak 21; Extras

lb7, nb10, w3: 20. Total

all out in 115.3 overs: 389.

Fall of wkts:

1-24, 2-24, 3-253, 4-254, 5-317, 6-325, 7-328, 8-328, 9-344, 10-389.

Bowling:

Garsondia 26-8-59-2; Rana 8.5-1-58-0; Chawda 24-5-95-6; Prasana 24-3-78-0; Bambhaniya 24.1-4-64-1; Kotak 8.3-0-28-1.

Ranchi

Haryana: Jeetinder Singh b D Kumar 5, Parinder Sharma c Vikas b Rao 154, Shafiq Khan c Ali b D Kumar 0, Amarjeet Kaypee c amp; b Vikas 80, Rajesh Puri c S Kumar b Rao 25, Sanjay Dala b Vikas 70, Dhanraj Singh c Arfi b Vikas 6, Subhash Chaudhry c Tariq b Vikas 26, Ajay Ratra c Sunil b Rao 17, Pankaj Thakur not out 73, Vineet Jain not out 23. Extras b 4, lb 11, nb 12 27. Total decl for 9 wkts 506.

Fall of wickets: 1-5 2-5 3-180 4-238 5-323 6-340 7-390 8-393 9-446

Bowling: Panda 24-5-65-0, D Kumar 22-4-60-2, Rao 43-10-123-3, Vikas 60-8-194-4, Rehman 8-0-31-0, Arfi 3-0-18-0.

Bihar: Nikhilesh Ranjan c Ratra b Jain 0, Zeeshan Ali batting 17, Tariq- Ur-Rehman batting 33. Extras nb 10. Total for one wicket 60.

Fall of wickets: 1-0.

Bowling: Jain 8-1-37-1, Singh 2-0-10-0, Sharma 2-2-0-0, Thakur 6-3-3-0, Chaudhary 3-1-5-0, Dala 1-0-5-0.

Bengal survive early scare

CALCUTTA:

Bengal recovered from a disastrous 13 for three to crawl to 167 for five in their first innings at close on the second day of the Group-A Super League match against Hyderabad at Eden Gardens today.

Nikhil Haldipur8217;s gritty 67 and an unfinished 61-run sixth wicket partnership between Srikant Kalyani and Ajay Das were instrumental in the revival.

Hyderbad

first innings: overnight 182-8 A Shetty c Kalyani b Chatterjee 15, D Manohar b Das 34, A Nandakishore c Gandhi b Banerjee 13, M V Sridhar camp;b D Singh 85, V Pratap c Ahmed b Das 12, D Vinay Kumar c Dasgupta b Chatterjee 0, Y Singh c Kalyani b Banerjee 4, Venkatapathy Raju c Gandhi b Singh 7, N P Singh c Chatterjee b Banerjee 0, K Singh b Banerjee 5, M Mohiuddin not out 0; Extras

b4, lb6, w1, nb2: 13. Total

in 93.1 overs:

188.

Fall of wickets:

1-41, 2-60, 3-73, 4-93, 5-96, 6-133, 7-179, 8-182, 9-188.

Bowling:

Banerjee 17-3-39-4, Bose 14-3-34-0, Chatterjee 36-17-45-2, Singh 12.1-3-20-2, Das 11-3-29-2, Gavaskar 2-0-10-0, Gandhi 1-0-1-0.

Bengal

first innings:

Devang Gandhi c Kanwaljit b N Singh 0, Deep Dasgupta b N Singh 8, Nikhil Haldipur c Pratap b Raju 67, Rohan Gavaskar c Kanwaljit b N Singh 0, Saba Karim c Shetty b N Singh 16, Srikant Kalyani batting 44, Ajay Das batting 24; Extras

lb2, nb5, w1: 8. Total

for 5 wkts in 86 overs: 167. Fall of wickets:

1-5, 2-13, 3-13, 4-61, 5-106.

Bowling:

N Singh 20-8-36-4, Mohiuddin 16-3-46-0, Pratap 2-1-4-0, Raju 20-8-32-1, K Singh 25-8-44-0, Manohar 3-1-3-0.

Jaipur: Devastating bowling by Tushar Arothe 4-9 and M Kadri 2-20 restricted hosts Rajasthan to 374 in the Super League Match here today. But Baroda were not placed in a happy position as they lost three wickets for 73 at close.