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Puducherry: Hyderabad had its moments of recklessness but exhibited patience to a greater grade arsenic it posted 435 successful its archetypal innings against Pondicherry successful a Ranji Trophy Elite Group-D brushwood astatine the CAP Ground 2 present connected a cloudy Sunday.
In response, Pondicherry mislaid opener Paras Ratnaparkhe aboriginal earlier atrocious airy stopped play prematurely again.
Hyderabad’s wicketkeeper-batter Rahul Radesh epitomised grit arsenic helium steered the visitant to information with an 81-run knock. He struck a captious 65-run confederation for the sixth wicket with chap southpaw Rohit Rayudu and clung connected till the extremity with the tail.
Radesh and Rohit negated the rotation menace of Sagar Udeshi and Jayant Yadav, who had combined to prime 4 wickets for 27 runs wrong the archetypal hour. The Hyderabad duo employed the expanse and guardant property during 88 balls of relentless rotation bowling, which yielded 30 runs.
Rohit took 11 deliveries to get disconnected the people earlier breaking escaped with a six down the crushed disconnected Jayant. He repeated the dose aft luncheon but mislaid his off-stump to medium-pacer Puneet Datey soon after.
Meanwhile, Radesh grew successful assurance and mastered the no-look paddle arsenic good arsenic the accepted precocious cut.
Seven of his 10 boundaries came connected either broadside down square, adding to the spinners’ frustration.
However, it was a damp opening to the time for Hyderabad aft a bedewed outfield delayed the commencement by 45 minutes.
Centurion Rahul Singh was caught trying to wide the midwicket bound disconnected the archetypal shot helium faced.
The skipper’s overnight partner, K. Himateja, and Varun Goud were trapped successful beforehand playing Udeshi disconnected the backmost foot.
Tanmay Agarwal returned to notch up his 50 aft retiring wounded connected Saturday, but was sent backmost by Mohit Kale’s stunning one-handed drawback astatine cover.
But erstwhile Radesh and Rohit joined forces, Pondicherry didn’t person overmuch to celebrate.
The scores: Hyderabad — 1st innings: Tanmay Agarwal c Kale b Jayant 50, Abhirath Reddy b Udeshi 35, Rahul Singh c Bais b Udeshi 114, K. Himateja lbw b Udeshi 66; Varun Goud lbw b Udeshi 0, Rahul Radesh c Aman b Jayant 81, Rohit Rayudu b Datey 34, Chama Milind b Kannan 4, Tanay Thyagarajan b Kannan 14, G. Anikethreddy c Jayant b Ratnaparkhe 18, B. Punnaiah (not out) 0; Extras: (b-4, lb-11, nb-4): 19; Total (in 134.5 overs): 435.
Fall of wickets: 1-88, 2-256, 3-273, 4-273, 5-283, 6-348, 7-353, 8-377, 9-421.
Pondicherry bowling: Datey 17-1-69-1, Udeshi 39-8-110-4, Aman 9-0-44-0, Jayant 41.5-8-114-2, Kannan 23-2-66-2, Kargave 3-0-7-0, Ratnaparkhe 2-0-10-1.
Pondicherry — 1st innings: Ganga Sridhar Raju (batting) 6, Paras Ratnaparkhe c Himateja b Punnaiah 5, Anand Singh Bais (batting) 14; Total (for 1 wkt. successful 9 overs): 25.
Fall of wicket: 1-7.
Hyderabad bowling: Anikethreddy 3-1-6-0, Milind 3-1-4-0, Punnaiah 1-0-4-1, Thyagarajan 1-0-4-0, Rayudu 1-0-7-0.
