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A dropped catch, a missed tally out, and immoderate thrill-a-minute cricket later, pacer Sonu Yadav cleaned up No. 11 Saiteja for 2 arsenic Tamil Nadu snatched a slender five-run first-innings pb implicit Andhra connected the 2nd time of their Elite Group-A fourth-round Ranji Trophy lucifer astatine the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium present connected Sunday.
After pacer Sandeep Warrier (four for 53) castled some Saurabh Kumar (30) and Prithvi Raj Yarra (duck) successful the abstraction of 4 balls, Andhra was near reeling astatine 143 for nine. Desperation gripped some sides, mounting up a tense transition of play. Andhra needed 40 runs to assertion the first-innings lead, and Tamil Nadu had to onslaught earlier it did.
Shaik Rasheed (87 n.o., 150b, 8x4, 2x6), hopeless to instrumentality a azygous disconnected the past shot of an over, edged and was dropped astatine gaffe by B. Indrajith connected 71 disconnected left-arm spinner R. Sai Kishore. Andhra needed 18 runs then. Desperate again to regain strike, Rasheed bolted crossed arsenic Saiteja responded late, but the constituent fielder missed the propulsion astatine the non-striker’s end.
Rasheed played an innings of 2 contrasting parts. Playing the shot precocious and often square, helium was compact adjacent arsenic wickets tumbled astir him. Then, helium showcased his cleanable hitting during the last-wicket stand. Even with the tract spread, helium slog-swept a six implicit midwicket, and erstwhile it was brought in, helium smacked a 4 to agelong disconnected successful the aforesaid implicit disconnected Warrier. He sneaked a 4 betwixt the heavy screen and heavy other screen fielders, and tonked a six implicit midwicket successful the aforesaid implicit disconnected Sai Kishore.
Tamil Nadu ended the time with a 107-run lead, courtesy of a 69-run third-wicket basal betwixt B. Sachin (51, 81, 8x4) and Pradosh Ranjan Paul (26 batting). Sachin, en way his maiden first-class fifty, crisply played the screen thrust for 4 boundaries disconnected the pacers.
The scores: Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: 182.
Andhra — 1st innings: Abhishek Reddy lbw b Warrier 3, K.S. Bharat b Trilok 12, Tripurana Vijay b Trilok 3, Shaik Rasheed (not out) 87, Ricky Bhui c Jagadeesan b Warrier 4, Karan Shinde c Jagadeesan b Sonu 9, Ashwin Hebbar c Paul b Sai Kishore 13, K.S. Raju c Indrajith b Sai Kishore 1, Saurabh Kumar b Warrier 30, Prithvi Raj Yarra b Warrier 0, K. Saiteja b Sonu 2; Extras (b-5, lb-8): 13; Total (in 49 overs): 177.
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-20, 3-28, 4-45, 5-63, 6-98, 7-100, 8-143, 9-143.
Tamil Nadu bowling: Warrier 16-1-53-4, Trilok 11-2-50-2, Sonu Yadav 10-3-20-2, Sai Kishore 11-0-38-2, Vidyuth 1-0-3-0.
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 (batting) 26, R. Sai Kishore (batting) 0; Extras (b-4, w-1): 5; Total (for 3 wkts. successful 29 overs): 102.
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-32, 3-101.
Andhra bowling: Prithvi Raj 7-0-16-1, Saiteja 7-2-20-0, Raju 5-0-30-1, Hebbar 5-1-20-0, Vijay 2-1-4-0, Saurabh 3-0-8-0.
