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It’s Yomahesh’s day

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EXULTANT: Tamil Nadu’s Yomahesh celebrates the fall of Cheluvaraj of Railways on Saturday.

Chennai: Vijaykumar Yomahesh’s steep and rapid lift, aided by the control exerted by the rest of Tamil Nadu’s bowlers, ensured the host a healthy first innings lead in its final Ranji Trophy group match against Railways at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday.

Held together by a resolute 97 from Yere Goud, Railways was dismissed for 314, half an hour from close. Tamil Nadu ended day three at 33 for no loss, 194 ahead.

Yomahesh began his first spell of the day with three consecutive no balls. He had overstepped seven times on Friday, and would finish with 22 no balls.

Steaming in

But that didn’t deter the 20-year-old from steaming in and bending double in his follow through. Reward came in his third over of the day, half-centurion V. Cheluvaraj nicking behind a length ball that left him off the pitch.

Meanwhile, Goud batted serenely on, weaving away from Yomahesh’s bouncers, and interspersing drives among long spells of defence.

He got to 50 with a leg-side whip for four off a full toss from left arm spinner C. Suresh, the 155th delivery he faced.

In the third over after lunch, skipper Sanjay Bangar played forward to Suresh, and the ball seemed to bounce either off his boot or the ground to silly point. Ruled out by the third umpire, Bangar trudged off shaking his head angrily.

Sanjib Sanyal then joined Goud; the two had scored fifties in each innings against Maharashtra. Their partnership chugged along to 55, before Sanyal looped a catch to mid-on, deceived in the air by offie S. Suresh Kumar.

Karthik on top

Two more batsmen fell before tea, Mahesh Rawat skying Ashwin and Dipak Yadav edging Yomahesh to give Dinesh Karthik his 24th and 25th dismissals of the season, putting him on top of that list.

Murali Kartik then made a streaky 30 before missing a sweep off Suresh Kumar, his boot caught plumb in front.

Goud was next to go, his 294-ball stay ending with a popped catch to short leg off Ashwin. It was then left to Yomahesh to finish Railways off, his pace and leap off the wicket too much for the tail to handle.

The scores: Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: 475 for six decl.

Railways — 1st innings: P. Das c D. Karthik b Amarnath 7, V. Cheluvaraj c Karthik b Yomahesh 65, Y. Goud c Arun Karthik b Ashwin 97, S. Bangar c Arun Karthik b C. Suresh 20, S. Sanyal c Yomahesh b Suresh Kumar 34, M. Rawat c D. Karthik b Ashwin 0, Dipak Yadav c D. Karthik b Yomahesh 16, Murali Kartik lbw b Suresh Kumar 30, Anureet Singh (not out) 12, K. Parida b Yomahesh 1, Sabir Ali c Arun Karthik b Yomahesh 0; Extras: (lb-1, nb-29, w-2) 32; Total: (in 111.5 overs) 314.

Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-120, 3-169, 4-224, 5-230, 6-248, 7-286, 8-313, 9-314.

Tamil Nadu bowling: Yomahesh 27.5-1-90-4, Amarnath 21-6-69-1, Ganapathy 13-3-31-0, Ashwin 27-5-56-2, C. Suresh 12-3-32-1, S. Suresh Kumar 8-3-21-2, Vidyut 3-0-14-0.

Tamil Nadu — 2nd innings: K.B. Arun Karthik (batting) 27, R. Prasanna (batting) 5; Extras: (w-1) 1; Total: (for no loss in six overs) 33.

Railways bowling: Anureet Singh 3-0-15-0, Sabir Ali 2-0-16-0, M. Rawat 1-0-2-0.

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