Jaipur, Nov. 2: There was no end to the woes of Hyderabad as they are heading for a massive defeat in the Ranji Trophy Plate division match against Rajasthan after yet another batting collapse.
Hyderabad, who on Monday recorded the lowest total in the Ranji history after being bowled out for 21, are trailing by 318 runs with just four wickets in hand after being reduced to 64 for six in their second innings.
Rajasthan, who began the day at 220 for two, 183 more runs to their total before being all out for 403 runs.
Skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who was overnight 100, missed out on a double hundred by just seven runs as he ran short of partners on the other end and remained unbeaten till the end.
His 193-run knock came off 377 balls with the help of 22 shots to the fence.
Paceman Alfred Absolem did well for Hyderabad by taking five wickets and played an important part in stopping Rajasthan from stretching their innings further. Absolem’s good show was the only solace for the Hyderabad as their second essay was equally disappointing.
Scorecard
Hyderabad 1st innings: 21 Rajasthan 1st innings (overnight 220 for 2): A Chopra st Khaleel b Lalith Mohan 65, VA Saxena b Absolem 9, Kanitkar not out 193, R Bist lbw b Naidu 58, Parida b Absolem 2, Puneet Yadav c Khaleel b Lalith Mohan 14, Jhalani c Khaleel b Absolem 14, Chahar c Quadri b Naidu 23, Pankaj Singh lbw b Lalith Mohan 0, Singh c Yadav b Absolem 4, Mathur c Yadav b Absolem 0, Extras (b-4, lb-7, w-1, nb-9) 21. Total (all out; 131.3 overs) 403.
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-160, 3-267, 4-279, 5-308, 6-343, 7-393, 8-394, 9-401, 10-403.
Bowling: A Absolem 26.3-4-78-5, MP Arjun 19-4-75-0, Kaneeshk Naidu 26-10-70-2, A. Lalith Mohan 42-4-124-3, Ahmed Quadri 14-2-37-0, D.B. Ravi Teja 4-1-8-0.
Hyderabad 2nd innings: PA Reddy c Jhalani b Pankaj Singh 0, DB Ravi Teja lbw b Chahar 0, Anirudh Singh b Pankaj Singh 13, AS Yadav b Chahar 12, SA Pai c Jhalani b Chahar 5, I Khaleel c Saxena b Mathur 15, SA Quadri batting 9, MP Arjun batting 2, Extras (b-4, lb-4) 8. Total (6 wickets; 24 overs) 64.
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-4, 3-28, 4-37, 5-46, 6-54.
Bowling: Pankaj Singh 9-2-19-2, Deepak Chahar 11-3-30-3, SO Mathur 3-2-6-1, G. Singh 1-0-1-0.
Round Up
l Bengal 473 (Arindam Das 156, Manoj Tewari 69, Sourashis Lahiri 68 not out; Sumit Narwal 3/61) vs Delhi 89/1 (Virat Kohli batting 51)
l Gujarat 379 (S.K. Trivedi 65; K. Upadhayay 3/98) vs Railways 64/3 (T.P. Singh batting 26)
l Baroda 148 (Rakesh Solanki 87; Basanth Mohanty 5/31) vs Orissa 183/3 (Govind Pooder batting 70, Natraj Behera batting 55)
l Assam 184 vs Tamil Nadu 300/4 (Anirudha Srikkanth batting 87, R. Satish batting 74)
l Punjab 288 (Karan Goel 58; Praveen Kumar 5/72) vs UP 221/5 (Mohammad Kaif 58)
l Mumbai 580/9 decl. (Iqbal Abdulla 150 n.o., Ajit Agarkar 80; Ravindra Jadeja 4/189) vs Saurashtra 94/2 (Bhushan Chauhan batting 29)