Hyderabad settle for a draw

Hyderabad gained two points on the virtue of first innings lead as their Elite Group B Ranji Trophy match against Haryana ended in a draw in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Hyderabad increased their tally to four points from three matches, while Haryana did not get any point from this match.

For Haryana, who scored 284 losing six wickes in the second innings, Deepak Joon hit an unbeaten century (102 runs in 214 balls) with ten fours and a six.

He had two important partnership in the second innings-- 69 runs for the fifth wicket with Sahu (41)and 87 runs for the sixth wicket with Joginder Sharma (58).

Earlier, Hyderabad who gained a first innings lead of 160 runs on Monday, did not enforce follow on. Batting for the second time, they piled an overall lead of 350 runs.

Resuming their second innings at 168 for 6, Hyderabad on at 190 for 9 in 69.3 overs.

Haryana medium pacer Joginder Sharma claimed five wickets to take his tally to ten wickets in the match.

Scorecard

Hyderabad 1st innings 328

Haryana 1rst innings 168

Hyderabad 2nd innings
Manohar lbw b Joginder Sharma 2
Shashank Nag lbw b Joginder Sharma 4
Anirudh Singh lbw b Joginder Sharma 23
A Yadav c Rawat b Joginder Sharma 17
D Vinay Kumar lbw b Mishra 6
I Khaleel c S.Singh b Joginder Sharma 53
Kaushik Reddy st Rawat b Mishra 14
P Niranjan c Rawat b Rana 41
N Singh not out 13
P Reddy (run out) 5
Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 2) 12
Total (9 wickets declared in 69.3 overs) 190

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-19, 3-41, 4-47, 5-62, 6-84, 7-172, 8-178, 9-190.

Bowling: Joginder Sharma 18 3 56 5 (1nb, 1w), Rana 13.3 3 37 1 (1nb,) Virmani 11 3 26 0 (1w), Mishra 16 2 45 2, Vashisht 11 4 22 0

Haryana 2nd innings
B Bist c Khaleel b Ojha 17
Sunny Singh c Shashank Nag b Ojha 9
D Joon not out 102
S Verma b Ojha 5
S Rana c Vinay Kumar b Ojha 5
P Sahu lbw b Niranjan 41
Joginder Sharma c Khaleel b Kaushik Reddy 58
M Rawat not out 18
Extras (b 11, lb 5, nb 13) 29
Total (6 wickets, 78 overs, 330 mins) 284

Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-38, 3-68, 4-85, 5-154, 6-241.

Bowling: NP Singh 8 2 28 0 (1nb), Kaushik Reddy 13 3 54 1 (7nb), Ojha 27 5 121 4 (4nb), Reddy 27 9 50 0 Niranjan 3 0 15 1