Bengal struggling

HYDERABAD, April 2: Thirteen wickets fell on the penultimate day to push the Hyderabad-Bengal Ranji Trophy cricket quarter-final to the prec...

HYDERABAD, April 2: Thirteen wickets fell on the penultimate day to push the Hyderabad-Bengal Ranji Trophy cricket quarter-final to the precipice. At the Gymkhana here today, Hyderabad, who managed 244 in 92.4 overs in their second innings had the visitors struggling at 69 for five by stumps.

SCOREBOARD

Hyderabad (1st Innings): 209.

Bengal (1st Innings): 243.

Hyderabad (2nd Innings): A Shetty c Charanjit b Banerjee 7, D Manohar c Lahiri b Chatterjee 66, T Ravikumar c Chatterjee b Banerjee 0, V Pratap c Lahiri b Banerjee 23, N David c & b S Singh 59, MV Sridhar c Haldipur b Verma 21, A Nandakishore c&b Banerjee 30, Youraj Singh c Chatterjee b A Verma 17, V Raju run out 5, NP Singh c Lahiri b S Banerjee 5, Kanwaljit Singh not out 1. Extras (lb 4, nb 2, b 4): 10, Total (all out in 92.4 overs): 244.

Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-10, 3-98, 4-98, 5-179, 6-187, 7-216, 8-223, 9-235.

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Bowling: Banerjee 22.4-7-58-5, C Singh 4-1-13-0, Chatterjee 32-3-84-1, Verma 14-4-36-2, S Singh19-4-38-1, Gavaskar 1-0-7-0

Bengal (2nd innings): A Verma c&b Manohar 7, A Lahiri lbw Raju 0, N Haldipur lbw Manohar 10, D Gandhi lbw K Singh 10, R Gavaskar lbw Raju 28, S Karim batting 7, S Kalyani batting 2. Extras (b4, lb1): 5.

Total (for 5 wkts): 69

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-13, 3-24, 4-54, 5-64

Bowling: Raju 14-6-19-2, NP Singh 5-2-8-0, David 2-0-7-0, Manohar 7-1-19-0, Kanwaljit Singh 7-3-11-1