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Tamil Nadu beats Punjab by an innings and 45-runs

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Tamil Nadu players celebrate after winning their Ranji Trophy match against Punjab on Friday.

AMRITSAR: Tamil Nadu completed an innings and 45-run victory to collect six points, including a bonus, from its Ranji Trophy Super League match against Punjab at the Gandhi ground here on Friday.

Punjab, which resumed at 114 for five, failed to learn from the mistakes of the previous three days and continued to slide towards a humiliating defeat at home.

Off-spinner R. Ashwin richly deserved his haul of five for 16. The batsmen, with the exception of veteran Pankaj Dharmani, threw their bat around to make the job easy for the Tamil Nadu bowlers.

The partnership between Dharmani and Gaurav Gambhir promised a fight but the latter fell into a trap — his sweep was well taken by V. Yomahesh at square-leg.

Bharat Loomba lasted five balls and Dharmani, eighth man out, was trapped leg-before by Ashwin’s nagging line. His 56 came off 88 balls with nine fours.

Even as Love Abilish (29, 2x4, 3x6) smashed the ball around it was only a matter of time before Tamil Nadu signed off in style.

Tamil Nadu now travels to Dharamshala to play Himachal Pradesh from November 24 while Punjab hosts Gujarat at Mohali.

After three matches, Tamil Nadu’s tally stands at 12 points while Punjab has four.

The scores: Punjab — 1st innings: 228.

Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: 521 for nine decl.

Punjab — 2nd innings: R.I. Singh b Srinivas 11, V. Bhalla c D. Karthik b Srinivas 12, U. Kaul c R. Satish b Ashwin 16, C. Madan b Ashwin 15, P. Dharmani lbw b Ashwin 56, A. Kakkar c Mahesh b Srinivas 33, G. Gambhir c Yomahesh b Suresh 19, B. Loomba c Arun Karthik b Suresh 1, L. Abilish b Ashwin 29, V. Khanna (not out) 30, S. Ladda c Vijay b Ashwin 15; Extras (b-4, lb-3, nb-3, w-1): 11; Total (in 76.2 overs): 248.

Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-42, 3-56, 4-65, 5-104, 6-165, 7-171, 8-187, 9-209.

Tamil Nadu bowling: L. Balaji 6-1-16-0, V. Yomahesh 5-1-14-0, A. Srinivas 21-8-47-3, R. Ashwin 302.-6-116-5, S. Suresh Kumar 11-3-41-2, A. Mukund 3-1-7-0.

Other Scores: Super League: At Mumbai: Mumbai 162 and 335 for seven decl. bt Himachal Pradesh 246 and 166 in 67 overs. Points: Mumbai 5, HP 0.

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad 236 and two for no loss in two overs drew with Gujarat 536 in 166.3 overs (Niraj Patel 58, Parthiv Patel 105, Bhavik Thaker 54, Rujul Bhatt 186, A. Makda 53). Gujarat 3, Hyderabad 1.

At Mysore: Bengal 324 and 213 for six in 86 overs (Deep Dasgupta 55, Manoj Tiwary 65 not out) drew with Karnataka 523 for nine decl. in 159 overs (K.B. Pawan 134, Amit Verma 157, C.M. Gautam 108 not out, Sunil Joshi 42). Karnataka 3, Bengal 1.

At Bhubaneswar: Railways 307 for eight decl. in 125 overs (V. Cheluvaraj 88) drew with Orissa 132 for four in 79 overs (Shiv Sunder Das 41). Orissa 1, Railways 1.

At Rajkot: Saurashtra 544 for three decl. drew with Maharashtra 289 in 134.1 overs (Rohan Bhosale 82, Ganesh Gaikwad 45, S. Jobanputra four for 55) and 162 for five in 69 overs (Kedar Jadhav 111 not out). Saurashtra 3, Maharashtra 1.

At Ghaziabad: Baroda 234 and 331 in 104.5 overs (Connor Williams 96, Rakesh Solanki 42, Yusuf Pathan 78, Praveen Gupta four for 83) drew with Uttar Pradesh 240 and eight for one in five overs. UP 3, Baroda 1.

Plate division: Madhya Pradesh 308 for five decl. in 117 overs (H. Kanitkar 68, D. Bundela 84, S. Abbas Ali 57 not out) drew with Andhra 145 for six in 82.2 overs (B. Sumanth 51 not out). Andhra 1, MP 1.

At Guwahati: Jharkhand 261 and 247 in 84.2 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 121, Rajiv Kumar 42, S.P. Gautam 40, Dhiraj Goswami four for 37) drew with Assam 298 and 99 for nine in 46 overs (Parvez Aziz 46). Assam 3, Jharkhand 1.

At Margao: Goa 338 and 212 for nine in 65 overs (S. Asnodkar 47, Robin D’Souza 40 not out, Gajendra Singh four for 46) drew with Rajasthan 225. Goa 3, Rajasthan 1.

At Nagpur: Vidarbha 222 and 217 for six decl. in 66 overs (Alind Naidu 76, Shalabh Shrivastava 49 not out) drew with Tripura 151 and 73 for four in 40 overs. Vidarbha 3, Tripura 1 .

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