da mrbet： Despite a late collapse, Andhra were having the better of theexchanges at the end of the second day’s play of their Ranji TrophySouth Zone clash against Karnataka at Belgaum
da cassino： Sankhya Krishnan16-Nov-2000Despite a late collapse, Andhra were having the better of theexchanges at the end of the second day’s play of their Ranji TrophySouth Zone clash against Karnataka at Belgaum. Having skittled out thehome team for just 139 in the morning, Andhra progressed to 189/8 intheir second knock by stumps, assisted by half centuries from YVenugopal Rao and LN Prasad Reddy.Karnataka resumed at 90/4 with their last recognised pair of ThilakNaidu and B Akhil at the crease. In the day’s fourth over Naidu wascaught off finger spinner Watekar for 28, which turned out to be thetopscore of the innings. Akhil fell four runs later to leave the hostsat 101/6. The tail frustrated Andhra for another hour and a halfwithout making much headway in terms of run scoring as the inningssputtered to an end in the 56th over. Mediumpacer KS Sahabuddin pickedup three more wickets today to end with figures of 6/63.Andhra went in to bat shortly before lunch with a first innings leadof 56 in the kitty. Skipper Amit Pathak and Y Gnaneswara Rao both fellcheaply to Mansur Ali Khan either side of the interval as Andhra slidto 24/2. Opener Reddy (55) and Venugopala Rao (82), brother ofGnaneswara Rao, now came together in a 135 run third wicket stand thatappeared to have given the visitors a stranglehold.But both were removed in successive overs by Santosh Vadiaraj to alterthe complexion of the game in a twinkling. In a game of seesawingfortunes, Dodda Ganesh tore apart the lower order and Andhra went intostumps at 189/8, having lost their last six wickets for 30 runs. Withthe visitors holding an overall lead of 245 runs and two wickets stillin hand, Karnataka’s batsmen face the prospect of a challenging fourthinnings runchase on a none too friendly wicket, although they haveplenty of time in hand.
