Railways keep right on track

The openers were not seperated at tea and had added 54 runs before Sunil Joshi dismissed Yadav with his very first delivery.

The overnight batsmen, Vijay Bharadwaj and Anil Kumble set off on a rollicking sixth wicket stand of 159 invaluable runs. Bharadwaj, who notched up his highest score infirst class cricket, was finally caught on the cover fence off medium pacer Javed Zaman for 164 376 m, 267 b, 24215;4.

SCOREBOARD

KARNATAKA 1st innings, overnight 272-5: V Bharadwaj c Yadav b Zaman 164, A Kumble c Bangar b Parida 59, Shiruguppi n.o. 37, D Johnson st Zakaria b Suresh 3. Extras lb 11, nb 27, w 6: 44. Total for 8 wickets declared in 141 overs 462

Fall of wickets: 5-222, 6-381, 7-455, 8-462

Bowling: Hussain 27-2-91-1, Zaman 18-4-61-1, Bangar 13-2-53-0, Parida 44-11-116-5, Sharma 1-0-2-0, M Suresh 35-5-109-1, Rawat 3-0-19-0

Railways 1st innings: S Bhangar batting 31, S Yadav c Prasad b Joshi 25, Zakaria batting 12. Extras 4 b 2 lb 8 nb: 14 Total for 1 in 37 overs: 82

Fall of wicket: 1-54

Bowling: Prasad 10-3-20-0, Johnson 5-1-13-0, Kumble 8-4-19-0, Ganesh 7-2-14-0, Joshi 7-3-10-1