Reddy helps Hyderabad to big lead

Hyderabad bundled Haryana out for 168 to gain a healthy first innings lead of 160 runs and were 168 for six at the close on the penultimate day of the Elite Group B Ranji Trophy match at the Rajiv Gandhi Uppal Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday.

Resuming at overnight score of 106 for 5 in reply to hosts first innings score of 328, the visitors managed to add 62 runs more to their total.

Hyderabad in the second essay were 168 runs for six, with a lead of 328 runs with four wickets in hand and one day to spare.

I S Reddy was the most successful bowler for the hosts to claim four wickets for 40 runs.

Narender Pal Singh, who joined 300 Ranji wicket club, dimissed P Sahu while Ojha claimed the wicekt of M Rawat on a day which saw the dominance of Hyderabad bowlers.

Hyderabad's second innings started on a shaky start with the two openers returning to pavilion for 19 runs as Joginder Sharma picked up both the wickets.

Anirudh Singh (23) and Arjun Yadav (17) tried to put up some stability, but Joginder accounted for both the batsmen taking his tally to four wickets in the innings.

Vinay Kumar (6) and Kaushik Reddy (14) were sent back by spinner Amit Mishra.

Ibrahim Kaleel (52) with four hits to the fence was at the crease along with P S Niranjan (38) at stumps today.

Scorecard

Hyderabad 1st innings 328

Haryana 1st innings
B Bist lbw b Singh 6
Sunny Singh c Kaushik Reddy b Niranjan 22
D Joon c Ojha b Reddy 20
S Verma c Shashank Nag b Ojha 14
S Rana b Reddy 11
P Sahu c Manohar b Singh 8
Joginder Sharma b Reddy 18
M Rawat lbw b Ojha 16
A Mishra c Khaleel b Kaushik Reddy 11
G Vashisht not out 17
S Virmani c Vinay Kumar b Reddy 1
Extras (b 5, lb 4, w 5, nb 10) 24
Total (all out, 83.3 overs, 328 mins) 168

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-47, 3-56, 4-77, 5-82, 6-108, 7-113, 8-140, 9-157, 10-168

Bowling: Singh 15 5 27 2 (2nb), Reddy 28.3 14 40 4, Kaushik Reddy 14 0 49 1 (6nb), Ojha 24 12 34 2 (2nb), Niranjan 2 0 9 1 (1w)

Hyderabad 2nd innings
D Manohar lbw b Joginder Sharma 2
P Shashank Nag lbw b Joginder Sharma 4
A Singh lbw b Joginder Sharma 23
A Yadav c Rawat b Joginder Sharma 17
D Vinay Kumar lbw b Mishra 6
I Khaleel not out 52
K Reddy st Rawat b Mishra 14
P Niranjan not out 38
Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 2) 12
Total (6 wickets, 64 overs) 168

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-19,  3-41, 4-47, 5-62, 6-84

Bowling: Joginder Sharma 15 3 47 4 (1nb, 1w), Rana 11 3 24 0 (1nb), Virmani 11 3 26 0 (1w), Mishra 16 2 45 2, Vashisht 11 4 22 0