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Match ends in a draw

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Nashik: Maharashtra’s Rohit Motwani was let off with a reprimand by Match Referee Sanjay Patil for directing foul language at Andhra seamer Kalyankrishna.

Playing in his second Ranji Trophy match here at the Old Golf course ground, Motwani, hooked two short deliveries from Kalyankrishna for a six and four and swore immediately. The umpires Vishwas Neruurkar and Milind Patak intervened to prevent things going out of control on a day when the two teams seemed to lack energy and enthusiasm to raise the level of play.

Draw offer rejected

At the start of the 15 mandatory overs Andhra accepted an offer from the umpires to bring an end to the proceedings, but Maharashtra, like in the previous match against Tamil Nadu, rejected the same and continued to bowl.

“We did not want the mockery of cricket to continue. There was no point in continuing the match and we took the offer from umpires, but Maharashtra did not,” said Andhra coach M.V. Narasimha Rao.

Obviously piqued by Maharshtra’s decision, Andhra batted for five mandatory overs and declared its second innings at 210 for five.

Maharashtra which collected three points from the drawn match has four from two matches, while Andhra has two from as many matches.

The scores: Andhra — 1st innings: 348.

Maharashtra — 1st innings: 393.

Andhra — 2nd innings: H. Watekar c Shrikhande b Fallah 5, L.N.P. Reddy lbw b Haque 53, Gnaneswara Rao c Khadiwale b Fallah 48, B. Sumanth (not out) 58, A.S.K. Verma c Dole b Waghmare 0, A.G. Pradeep c Motwani b Waghmare 23, M. Suresh (not out) 6, Extras (b-8, lb-1, nb-4, w-4) 17, Total (for five wkts. decl. in 81 overs) 210.

Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-100, 3-142, 4-143, 5-199.

Maharashtra bowling: Fallah 22-4-57-2, Dole 7-1-22-0, Khadiwale 6-3-16-0, Haque 23-3-54-1, Paradkar 5-0-19-0, Waghmare 18-4-33-2.

Maharashtra — 2nd innings: H. Kahdiwale c Suresh b Vijaykumar 0, R. Bhosale (not out) 6, R. Motwani (not out) 21, Total (for one wkt. in eight overs) 27.

Fall of wicket: 1-0.

Andhra bowling: Vijaykumar 4-1-6-1, Kalyankrishna 3-0-20-0, Watekar 1-0-1-0.

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