da heads bet： The P Ramachandra Trophy Under-22 match involving Tamil Nadu andAndhra at the AC Tech College Ground in Chennai on Friday meandered toan inconclusive draw
da betobet： Natarajan Sriram27-Oct-2000The P Ramachandra Trophy Under-22 match involving Tamil Nadu andAndhra at the AC Tech College Ground in Chennai on Friday meandered toan inconclusive draw. Tamil Nadu who declared having scored 438 fornine, earned five points by virtue of the first innings lead while Andhrahad to be content with three. So far, from two matches Tamil Nadu has goteight points and Andhra six.Andhra, who were tottering at 100 for 7 at the end of the second day,managed to add a further 64 runs to their first innings total. The Andhraskipper IG Srinivas (53) was the topscorer while Y Venugopal Rao (37) andGyneshwara Rao (21) chipped in with useful contributions. The Andhra lowerorder succumbed to the slow leftarmers of R Ramkumar (5 for 28).Following on 274 runs behind, and with a draw their only hope, Andhramanaged to hold the fort for 43 overs while scoring 128 for 2 when stumpswere finally drawn. Ram Kumar was again among the wickets as he dismissedboth openers Taher Hussain (7) and Anil Kumar (37). However Gyaneshwar Rao(41) and NM Khan (35) remained unbeaten while sharing a 58-run third wicketstand.Earlier on the second day, Tamil Nadu continued from where they leftoff to pile up a huge total. Skipper SV Saravanan (86) and SS Viswanathan(30) added 89 runs for the fourth wicket in 21.5 overs.With the score at 331, Viswanathan was caught by Khan off Faiq. Three ballslater, Saravanan departed, caught by Taher Hussain off Srinivas.R Satish (63) and K Manoharan put on 89 runs for the sixth wicket in 17.2overs. Thereafter three more wickets fell for the addition of 13 runs whenthe Tamil Nadu skipper declared the innings.In reply, Andhra were off to a bad start losing both the openers withineight balls. Taher Hussain was the first to go caught by Hemanth Kumar offShrinivas off the second ball of the innings. Then off the fourth ball ofthe second over Anil Kumar was caught bu Ram Kumar off Balaji. GyneshwarRao (21) and Venugopal Rao (37) however added 64 runs for the third wicketin 17.5 overs.At 66, Venugopal Rao was dismissed, caught by Manoharan off Bhatia. Thenext over was the exit of Gyneshwar Rao, caught by Vidyuth off RamKumar. Thereafter Andhra struggled to reach the 100-run mark whilelosing three more wickets at stumps.
