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Under overcast skies and amidst plentifulness of chirping from the Pondicherry fielders, southpaws Rahul Singh and Kodimela Himateja made hay arsenic Hyderabad piled connected 255 for 1 connected the opening time of the Ranji Trophy Group-D lucifer astatine the CAP Siechem Ground present connected Saturday.
Skipper Rahul and Himateja’s chiseled temperaments complemented each different during their 167-run confederation for the 2nd wicket, earlier atrocious airy and a dense downpour had the last accidental with 20 overs remaining.
Rahul, batting with the quintessential flair and elegance of a left-hander, reached his ton disconnected 144 balls, with 11 fours and a six.
As a motion of things to come, Rahul had opened his relationship with a four. However, his innings should person ended soon, erstwhile off-spinner Jayant Yadav had him caught astatine silly constituent connected 4 disconnected a front-foot no-ball.
Rahul offered fewer chances aft that blip. He stepped retired and lofted debutant off-spinner Karan Kannan for a 4 implicit screen and took a toll connected the 23-year-old aft luncheon by depositing him for a six down the ground. When Kannan dropped it shorter, Rahul pulled him to midwicket and chopped him down constituent for 2 fours.
Rahul didn’t spare seamer Puneet Datey either, driving him connected the up and past slicing the shot done cover—his preferred region. He added to his counterpart Sagar Udeshi’s vexation by reverse-sweeping the left-arm spinner to the fine-leg boundary. When Aman Khan tried to leverage his tallness by employing a short-ball barrage, Rahul insouciantly pulled the medium-pacer to the square-leg boundary.
Himateja took a cue from his skipper aft trudging to 23 disconnected 77 balls. He carted Jayant for 2 sixes successful an implicit earlier bringing up a 105-ball half-century.
Earlier, Tanmay Agarwal retired wounded connected 36 owed to cramps and Abhirath Reddy was castled by 1 that kept debased earlier Rahul and Himateja took over.
The scores: Hyderabad — 1st innings: Tanmay Agarwal (retired hurt) 36, Abhirath Reddy b Udeshi 35, Rahul Singh (batting) 114, K. Himateja (batting) 62; Extras: (lb-4, nb-4): 8; Total (for 1 wkt. successful 70 overs): 255.
Fall of wicket: 1-88.
Pondicherry bowling: Datey 10-1-46-0, Udeshi 17-1-64-1, Aman 9-0-44-0, Jayant 23-4-60-0, Kannan 8-0-30-0, Kargave 3-0-7-0.
Toss: Hyderabad.
