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Vidarbha tightened its grip connected the Ranji Trophy Group ‘A’ fixture against Andhra aft a frenetic 2nd time present astatine Anantapur Cricket Ground, wherever wickets fell regularly to permission the big nether pressure.
Though Abhishek Reddy continued his bully signifier with a fluent 73, Andhra was bundled retired for 228 aft the visitant mislaid its last 3 wickets to decorativeness connected 295.
For the host, Saurabh Kumar played a warring sound of 62, portion Nitish Kumar Reddy looked bully successful his abbreviated stint of 35 disconnected 48 balls.
Vidarbha safely played retired the remaining 2 overs of the time to instrumentality an wide pb of 71.
The visitant began the time with overnight batters, centurion Yash Rathod and Nachiket Bhute, getting dismissed wrong 20 minutes.
Non-existent drive
Rathod went searching for a non-existent thrust and was caught down disconnected K. Saiteja, who besides claimed the last wicket of Parth Rekhade similarly. In between, Bhute skied a transportation to acquisition K. Raju his 5th wicket.
In reply, Andhra began with Abhishek and K.S. Bharat uncovering boundaries quadrate of the wicket disconnected the backfoot. Bharat, however, didn’t past agelong and edged to archetypal gaffe disconnected Darshan Nalkande.
Then, Shaik Rasheed and Ricky Bhui fell without scoring. While Rasheed was cleaned up by Bhute, Thakare had Bhui caught behind.
Abhishek displayed immoderate crisp backfoot punches to cod boundaries earlier Thakare returned to person him caught astatine gully, ending the opener’s 91-ball stay. Karan Shinde past chopped connected against Dubey.
Andhra's K. Nitish Kumar Reddy successful action. | Photo Credit: File photo: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
Nitish deed consecutive fours disconnected spinner Rekhade and past Nalkande. The pacer, however, had the past laughter arsenic Nitish smashed consecutive to cover.
Saurabh, though, continued to sound astir but couldn’t transportation Andhra’s innings to the adjacent time arsenic Rekhade cleaned him up 10 minutes earlier stumps.
The scores: Vidarbha — 1st innings: Atharva Taide c Bharat b Raju 13, Aman Mokhade b Raju 21, Danish Malewar c Nitish b Raju 0, R. Samarth c Bharat b Raju 9, Yash Rathod c Bharat b Saiteja 115, Rohit Binkar c Bharat b Saiteja 37, Harsh Dubey lbw b Nitish 9, Darshan Nalkande c & b Saurabh 36, Nachiket Bhute c Rasheed b Raju 31, Prerak Rekhade c Bharat b Saiteja 4, Aditya Thakare (not out) 2; Extras (b-4, lb-7, nb-1, w-6): 18; Total (in 89.3 overs): 295.
Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-33, 3-38, 4-45, 5-138, 6-156, 7-232, 8-283, 9-285.
Andhra bowling: Nitish 14-3-51-1, Sasikanth 14-2-50-0, Raju 20-6-62-5, Saiteja 16.3-2-46-3, Vijay 15-1-47-0, Saurabh 10-1-28-1.
Andhra — 1st innings: Abhishek Reddy c Mokhade b Thakare 73, K.S. Bharat c Samarth b Nalkande 9, Shaik Rasheed b Bhute 0, Ricky Bhui c Binkar b Thakare 0, Karan Shinde b Harsh Dubey 20, Nitish Kumar Reddy c Samarth b Nalkande 35, K.V. Sasikanth c Binkar b Bhute 1, Saurabh Kumar b Rekhade 62, K. Raju tally retired 5, Tripurna Vijay lbw b Rekhade 17, K. Saiteja (not out) 4; Extras (b-1, lb-1): 2; Total (in 65.3 overs): 228.
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-42, 3-49, 4-94, 5-118, 6-119, 7-166, 8-183, 9-223.
Vidarbha bowling: Nalkande 14-0-71-2, Thakare 12-2-33-2, Bhute 15-1-71-2, Dubey 16-4-26-1, Rekhade 8.3-1-25-2.
Vidarbha — 2nd innings: Aditya Thakare (batting) 4, Atharva Taide (batting) 0; Total (for nary nonaccomplishment successful 2 overs): 4.
Andhra bowling: Saurabh 1-0-4-0, Raju 1-1-0-0.
