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Karnataka wrests initiative

Principal Correspondent

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CAPTAIN’S KNOCK: Railways’ Sanjay Bangar came up with an unbeaten half-century on the second day of the Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka in Bangalore on Tuesday.

Bangalore: Karnataka found resilience in debutant Manish Pandey’s bat and hope in its spinners as the host wrested the initiative against Railways in the Ranji Trophy super league Group ‘B’ cricket match in progress at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here.

At the second day’s close on Tuesday, Railways scored 110 for four in reply to Karnataka’s 365.

Railways skipper Sanjay Bangar remained unbeaten on 53 in an afternoon dominated by tweakers who ruffled pads while the batsmen stayed tentative. Bangar opened his account with a streaky slash and immediately cut seamer N.C. Aiyappa as he moved into his run-making stride along with southpaw Amit Pagnis.

The openers crafted a 60-run partnership with Pagnis sweeping debutant off-spinner Sunil Raju for some quick runs.

Raghu strikes

However, off-spinner C. Raghu came on from the BEML End and trapped Pagnis. Next man Karan Sharma offered no shot to one that spun in as Raghu flung his hands skywards and then clenched his fist safe in the knowledge that he had his second victim.

Bangar, meanwhile, broke the shackles, driving Sunil Joshi and lofting Raghu. A 49-run third-wicket partnership was stitched with Harshad Rawle who cut Raju before the spinner struck and in the day’s last over Joshi scalped Sanjib Sanyal to leave Railways on the crossroads.

Earlier, resuming at 264 for six, Karnataka found sustenance in Pandey, who lost Joshi early but found an ideal foil in Raju (25). Manish (64, 146b, 6x4, 1x6) after largely offering the pad to a negative line, pulled with authority.

He found relief in the same shot off Murali Kartik to usher in his fifty. The left-arm spinner, however, scalped Manish on the stroke of lunch and finished with five wickets.

The scores:

Karnataka — 1st innings: K.B. Pawan c Raja Ali b Kartik 54, R. Uthappa c Anurit b Harvinder 131, Ganesh Satish lbw b Harvinder 18, C. Raghu c Kartik b Karan 0, Thilak Naidu c Mahesh Rawat b Kartik 19, Bharat Chipli c Harshad Rawle b Kartik 19, Manish Pandey lbw b Kartik 64, Sunil Joshi lbw b Harshad Rawle 13, Sunil Raju lbw b Kartik 25, Vinay Kumar c Rawat b Harvinder 3, N.C. Aiyappa (not out) 5, Extras (b-1, lb-8, nb-5): 14; Total (in 138 overs): 365.

Fall of wickets: 1-157, 2-191, 3-192, 4-221, 5-231, 6-253, 7-286, 8-352, 9-357.

Railways bowling: Bangar 15-5-41-0, Anurit 18-2-60-0, Harvinder 27-7-76-3, Sanyal 6-2-9-0, Kartik 42-17-83-5, Karan 27-4-79-1, Rawle 3-0-8-1.

Railways — 1st innings: A. Pagnis lbw b Raghu 28, S. Bangar (batting) 53, Karan lbw b Raghu 0, H. Rawle lbw b Sunil Raju 21, S. Sanyal lbw b Joshi 0, Extras (b-1, nb-7): 8; Total (for four wkts. in 45.3 overs): 110.

Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-60, 3-109, 4-110.

Karnataka bowling: Vinay 5-3-6-0, Aiyappa 4-0-19-0, Raju 10-2-44-1, Joshi 14.3-8-17-1, Raghu 12-4-23-2.

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