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Tamil Nadu secures lead

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LATE AND OUT: HP’s Paras Dogra is stumped by K.H. Gopinath off C. Suresh.

Chennai: V. Yomahesh’s three quick wickets helped Tamil Nadu secure a 11-run first innings lead on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Super-League match against Himachal Pradesh, at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here on Monday.

The new ball that was taken in the 85th over paid off for the host. Sarandeep edged the fourth ball of the Yomahesh over to R. Srinivasan at first slip, after surviving 106 balls of predominantly spin bowling. Ashok Thakur was sent back in a similar fashion, two balls later. Vikramjit Malik failed to pull off a swipe when Himachal was just 19 short of equalling Tamil Nadu’s score. His dismissal (leg-before) gave Yomahesh his fourth wicket of the innings.

Vishal Bhatia’s two consecutive boundaries off P. Amarnath looked ominous for Tamil Nadu; but the latter got Bhatia to nick one to ’keeper K.H. Gopinath to end the HP innings.

Manvinder Bisla (61) top-scored for Himachal. Both Bisla and Paras Dogra (49) were adept against the spinners, successfully sweeping them for runs; but the scoring rate was poor.

The scores:

Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: 234.

Himachal Pradesh — 1st innings: Munish Gupta c C. Suresh b Amarnath 9, Sandeep Sharma c Badrinath b Ramkumar 7, P. Dogra st. Gopinath b Suresh 49, Barun Sharma c Vijay b Suresh 5, Manvinder Bisla c Vasudeva Das b Badrinath 61, Ajay Mannu c Gopinath b Yomahesh 16, Sarandeep Singh c Srinivasan b Yomahesh 39, Vishal Bhatia c Gopinath b Amarnath 28, Ashok Thakur c Srinivasan b Yomahesh 2, Vikramjit Malik lbw b Yomahesh 2, Jitender Mehta (not out) 0. Extras (b-1, lb-4) 5; Total (in 90 overs) 223.

Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-25, 3-58, 4-85, 5-127, 6-179, 7-195, 8-197, 9-215.

Tamil Nadu bowling: Yomahesh 20-5-40-4, Amarnath 18-4-45-2, Ramkumar 20-3-50-1, Suresh 17-4-39-2, Suresh Kumar 10-1-33-0, Shri Vasudeva Das 2-0-5-0, Badrinath 3-0-6-1.

Tamil Nadu — 2nd innings: Abhinav Mukund (batting) 5, M. Vijay c Bisla b Sarandeep 9, K.H. Gopinath (batting) 1, Extras (lb-4) 4; Total (for one wkt. in eight overs) 19.

Fall of wicket: 1-17.

Himachal Pradesh bowling: Thakur 3-2-3-0, Malik 2-1-5-0, Bhatia 2-0-3-0, Sarandeep 1-0-4-1.

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