Ranji Trophy | Abhishek, Karan star as Andhra gets past Tamil Nadu on the third day

After Andhra fell agonisingly abbreviated of claiming the first-innings pb connected Sunday, the 21-year-old Shaik Rasheed — who had fixed his each with an unbeaten 87 — said, “We didn’t get the lead, maybe, but we’ll decidedly get an outright win!”

Whether it was the boundless optimism of younker oregon genuine conviction, 1 wouldn’t know. But hardly a time later, his prophecy was fulfilled.

Tamil Nadu was stripped of each morsel of pleasance it had earned connected the 2nd day, archetypal being bowled retired for 195 aft resuming astatine 102 for three, and past watching Andhra pursuit down a 201-run people with 4 wickets successful manus connected the 3rd time of their Elite Group-A fourth-round Ranji Trophy lucifer astatine the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium present connected Monday.

Though Andhra wobbled successful its pursuit aft losing 4 speedy wickets to gaffe from 158 for 2 to 162 for six, K.S. Raju (20 n.o.) and Ashwin Hebbar (21 n.o.) ensured a harmless passage. Raju lofted a 4 to agelong connected and cracked a six to cattle country disconnected left-arm spinner Sai Kishore erstwhile 14 were needed, easing the pressure.

But it was opener Abhishek Reddy’s shooting-star innings (70, 75b, 11x4) that gave Andhra aboriginal momentum successful the chase. He deed 3 consecutive fours disconnected pacer Trilok Nag — propulsion to cattle country and midwicket, a quadrate thrust betwixt the constituent and heavy backward constituent fielders. He charged and deed a consecutive drive, swept, and played the precocious chopped for 3 fours disconnected left-arm spinner P. Vidyuth. Abhishek added 72 runs for the second-wicket basal with left-hander Karan Shinde (51, 64b, 8x4).

On a time erstwhile immoderate balls stayed alarmingly low, 4 dismissals came successful that fashion. Tamil Nadu’s B. Indrajith (six) and Andre Siddarth (33) were bowled connected the backmost ft by left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar (four for 46) and off-spinner Tripurana Vijay portion Andhra’s K.S. Bharat (five) and Rasheed (seven) were cleanedup by R. Sai Kishore and Vidyuth.

The scores: Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: 182

Andhra — 1st innings: 177

Tamil Nadu — 2nd innings: R. Vimal Khumar c Bharat b Raju 20, N. Jagadeesan c Bhui b Prithvi Raj 0, B. Sachin tally retired 51, Pradosh Ranjan Paul b Prithvi Raj 29, R. Sai Kishore lbw b Saurabh 16, B. Indrajith b Saurabh 6, Andre Siddarth b Vijay 33, R. Sonu Yadav c Bharat b Saurabh 28, P. Vidyuth c Bharat b Vijay 2, H. Trilok Nag c Vijay b Saurabh 3, Sandeep Warrier (not out) 0; Extras (w-2, b-4, lb-1): 7; Total (in 70.3 overs): 195

Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-32, 3-101, 4-109, 5-127, 6-130, 7-190, 8-190, 9-195.

Andhra bowling: Prithvi Raj 14-1-31-2, Saiteja 13-4-33-0, Raju 13-1-44-1, Hebbar 5-1-20-0, Vijay 7-2-16-2, Saurabh 18.3-1-46-4

Andhra — 2nd innings: Abhishek Reddy lbw b Sai Kishore 70, K.S. Bharat b Sai Kishore 5, Karan Shinde c Vimal b Pradosh 51, Shaik Rasheed b Vidyuth 7, Saurabh Kumar c Vidyuth b Sai Kishore 0, Ricky Bhui lbw b Vidyuth 2, Ashwin Hebbar (not out) 21, K.S. Raju (not out) 20; Extras (b-12, lb-9, nb-2, w-2): 25; Total (for six wkts. successful 41.2 overs): 201.

Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-113, 3-158, 4-158, 5-160, 6-162.

Tamil Nadu bowling: Warrier 9-0-59-0, Trilok 2-0-23-0, Sai Kishore 15-0-46-3, Sonu 2-0-12-0, Vidyuth 11.2-0-37-2, Pradosh 2-1-3-1.