Ranji Trophy: Bowlers lead TN’s fightback against Railways

December 30, 2014 08:20 pm | Updated 08:20 pm IST - CHENNAI:

After having been bowled out for 213 in its first innings, Tamil Nadu fought back by reducing Railways to 133 for six at the end of the third day’s play in the Ranji Trophy here on Tuesday.

If not for four dropped catches — two of them by Abhinav Mukund of the overnight batsmen — the home side could have been in an even better position with a day’s play left.

“These things happen,” said B. Indrajith, who scored a half century (51), of the dropped catches. “The important thing is to bowl them out early tomorrow.” With time running out for an outright win, securing the first innings lead will be of prime importance for both teams.

The day’s first session was lost due to overnight rain. When the Tamil Nadu batsmen R. Prasanna and Indrajith resumed, the Railways spinners kept the scoring rate firmly under check. Just 34 runs came from the first 15 overs. Ashish Yadav, who would go on to pick up six wickets, bowled impressively.

Prasanna tried to hit his way out trouble and was scalped by Ashish through a fine caught and bowled effort.

Then, from 192 for five, Tamil Nadu collapsed and was bowled out for 213. The last four wickets fell for just three runs. R. Satish’s quick 41 (53b, 2x4, 2x6) wasn’t a chanceless innings – a couple of edges fell short – but might prove very crucial.

The scores:

Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: K. Bharath Shankar c Anustup Majumdar b Arnab Nandi 4, Abhinav Mukund c Mahesh Rawat b Ashish Yadav 57, B. Aparajith c & b Arnab Nandi 27, Dinesh Karthik lbw b Ashish Yadav 15, B. Indrajith c Nitin Bhille b Ashish Yadav 51, R. Prasanna c & b Ashish Yadav 12, R. Sathish lbw b Ashish Yadav 41, U. Sushil lbw b Ashish Yadav 0, Malolan Rangarajan lbw b Avinash Yadav 3, Rahil Shah c sub b Avinash Yadav 0, R. Aushik Srinivas (not out) 0. Extras: (b-1, nb-2): 3. Total (all out in 72.4 overs): 213.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-39, 3-74, 4-144, 5-164, 6-192, 7-210, 8-213, 9-213.

Railways bowling: Anureet Singh 2-1-1-0, Arnab Nandi 26-5-90-2, Ashish Yadav 30.4-7-68-6, Avinash Yadav 8-3-34-2, Prashant Awasthi 6-2-19-0.

Railways — 1st innings: Abhishek Kaushik c Bharath Shankar b Aushik 2, Prashant Awasthi st. Sushil b Rahil Shah 41, Nitin Bhille c Abhinav Mukund b Aushik 0, Arindam Ghosh c Bharath Shankar b Malolan 21, Mahesh Rawat lbw b Malolan 5, Anustup Majumdar b Malolan 21, Ashish Yadav (batting) 28 , Arnab Nandi (batting) 14. Extras: (lb-1): 1. Total (for six wkts. in 41 overs): 133.

Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-3, 3-38, 4-52, 5-83, 6-101.

Tamil Nadu bowling: Rahil Shah 11-2-31-1, Aushik Srinivas 17-3-47-2, Malolan Rangarajan 13-0-54-3.

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