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After Uttar Pradesh was put into bat, Balaji operated with purpose from the Wallajah Road end, pitching the ball up and allowing it to swing, and his impressive first spell of 9-3-13-3 reflected just this, the lanky paceman trapped opener Jyoti Yadav leg-before, castled Ansal Kapoor, and then consumed Mohammed Saif on the shuffle. Balaji's pace partner M.R. Shrinivas inflicted more damage on Uttar Pradesh, combining with wicket-keeper Dinesh Kaarthick to send back the experienced Rizwan Shamshad and then dismissing Sourab Shukla, thanks to a fine running catch from Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, who held the ball at short third man, racing in from backward point. The Tamil Nadu pacemen had made good use of some initial life on an otherwise placid pitch. Things were indeed gloomy for Uttar Pradesh when Nikhil Chopra joined Pandey. However, the two took the score to 93 for five at lunch, and next session belonged to the batting side, with the duo, going about building up the partnership, adding 122 in 27 fruitless overs for the host. The left-handed Pandey smote Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan for a six over long-on when spin was introduced after 42 overs, but the left-arm spinner was a touch unlucky not to have scalped Chopra (on 40) when J.R. Madanagopal could not latch on to a sharp chance at silly point. Chopra, who otherwise drove and flicked fluently, had another reprieve a run later, `keeper Kaarthick, failing to complete a hard catch at short-fine leg, after the batsman had miscued a hook off Shrinivas. Things began to happen 30 minutes after tea for Tamil Nadu, when Balaji's in-swinger breached Chopra's (86, 141b, 15x4, 1x6) defence. Then, Pandey (99, 193b, 12x4, 1x6), continuing to strike the ball crisply, was just one short of a well-deserved century, when he jumped out to a flighted delivery from Vidyut, and the miscued hit was pocketed by Shrinivas at point. U.P. lost its last five wickets for 69 runs in 18.1 overs, as the home team regained some lost ground. In the Tamil Nadu eleven, Balaji and Vidyut replaced offie D. Dandapani and leg-spinner B. Karthikeyan, while left-arm spinner Praveen Gupta came in for leggie Akhil Kumar in the Uttar Pradesh side. The scores: Uttar Pradesh 1st innings: Ansal Kapoor b L. Balaji 15; Jyoti Yadav lbw b L. Balaji 1; Mohammed Saif lbw b L. Balaji 5; Rizwan Shamshad c Kaarthick b Shrinivas 17; G. Pandey c Shrinivas b Vidyut 99; Sourab Shukla c Vidyut b Shrinivas 4; N. Chopra b L. Balaji 86; Javed Anwar c Balaji b Gokulakrishnan 28; A.W. Zaidi c Vidyut b L. Balaji 18; Ratnesh Mishra (not out) 2; Praveen Gupta lbw b L. Balaji 0. Extras (b8, lb3, w8, nb10) 29. Total: 304. Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-21, 3-31, 4-46, 5-54, 6-235, 7-278, 8-282, 9-304. Tamil Nadu bowling: Balaji 20.4-5-51-6; Shrinivas 14-1-57-2; Gokulakrishnan 20-3-60-1; Suresh 7-2-30-0; Vidyut 14-1-49-1; Sriram 8-0-33-0; Ramesh 1-0-13-0. Tamil Nadu 1st Innings: S. Suresh (batting) 2; S. Ramesh (batting) 6. Extras (lb4) 4. Total (for no loss) 12. Uttar Pradesh bowling: Zaidi 2-1-1-0; Mishra 1-0-7-0.
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