PANAJI, NOV 8: Former Indian Captain Mohammad Azharuddin made a telling statement with his bat while cracking an unbeaten 200 (256b, 340m, 12x4, 6x6) in the Ranji Trophy match against Goa here today. The Hyderabad skipper's heroics saw his team rake up a massive 592 before the innings was declared. In reply, Goa were 49 without loss at close.Brief Scores: Hyderabad 592 in 152.2 overs (Daniel Manohar 55, Nanda Kishore 88, VVS Laxman 131, Mohd Azharuddin 200 n.o., Venka Pratap 54; Shadab Jakati 3-115) vs Goa 49-0 in 22 overs.Vijay, Naidu shineBANGALORE: Defending champions Karnataka's conservative approach notwithstanding their bowlers prised out two wickets to have Kerala at 34 for two from 16 overs at stumps. Earlier, Karnataka were all out for 483 about 22 minutes after tea.Overnight 251 for two, Karnataka were served well by A Vijay and Thilak Naidu (93: 150b, 15x4). Vijay went on to notch his maiden Ranji hundred while making 122 (368b, 451m, 16x4).Brief Scores: Karnataka 483 in 164 overs (Barrington Rowland 106, A Vijay 122, Thilak Naidu 93, Anand Katti 45, GN Umesh 32; Ramprakash 3-112) vs Kerala 34-2 in 16 oversTN strugglingVISAKHAPATNAM: Tamil Nadu were struggling at 149 for five in their first innings in reply to Andhra's 305 on the second day of the four-day South Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match at the Municipal Corporation Stadium here. Resuming at the overnight score of 251-7, Andhra were bowled out ten minutes before lunch after adding 54 runs.Brief Scores: Andhra 305 in 120.2 overs (Amit Pathak 72, Y Venugopala Rao 33, H Watekar 41, Y Ranganath 45; T Kumaran 3-85, V Sivaramakrishnan 5-61) vs TN 149-5 in 57 overs (Madan Gopal 60, V Saravanan batting 45; N Madhukar 4-40)Dharmani's triple tonLUDHIANA: Punjab scored an inning and 288-run win over Jammu and Kashmir to gather maximum points (eight) from their four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match here today. Punjab thus raised their points tally to 24 after three games. The highlight however was a phenomenal triple century by Pankaj Dharmani, who remained unbeaten with 305 (30x4, 2x6).Brief Scores: J&K 171 & 161 in 33.2 overs (Sanjay Singh 46 n.o., Pardeep Bali 31; Reetinder Sodhi 5-64, Navdeep Singh 3-47) lost to Punjab 620-6 decl in 154 overs (Vikram Rathore 114, Pankaj Dharmani 305 n.o., Harminder Jugnu 106 n.o; Pardeep Bali 4-161).Innings win for HaryanaGURGAON: Haryana inflicted a huge innings and 94-run defeat over Services with over a day to spare in their North Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match here today.Brief scores: Haryana 502-4 decl bt Services 100 & 308 (CD Thomson 85 n.o., Narender Singh 41, Pankay Maitrey 52, Sayeed Javed 47; Pradeep Jain 4-50, Feroz Ghayas 3-82) by an innings & 94 runs.HP fight backMANDI: Himachal Pradeh were 215 for four in their second innings after being forced to follow on against against Delhi on the third day of their four-day North Zone Ranji Trophy league match at the Paddal ground here today.Brief Scores: Delhi 573-7 decl vs HP 244 in 64 overs (Yashwinder Singh 53, Jaswant Rai 70; Sandeep Angurala 4-80) & 215-4 in 60 overs (Nischal Gaur batting 53, Rajiv Nayyar 42, Yashwinder Singh 40, Sangram Singh batting 55; Sunil Joshi 2-22).
