Rlys run over Vidarbha

New Delhi, November 6 : Medium paceman Tejinder Pal Singh ran havoc with his accurate bowling scalping five wickets as Railways took a fir...

New Delhi, November 6 : Medium paceman Tejinder Pal Singh ran havoc with his accurate bowling scalping five wickets as Railways took a firm grip over their Central Zone Ranji trophy cricket match against Vidarbha, who were dismissed for a paltry 89 in their first innings here on Monday.

Railways openers then gave their team an ideal foundation with a 102-run first wicket partnership in the hosts’ quest for a huge first innings total after Vidarbha elected to bat first.

Railways were 153 for two, a lead of 64 runs, at

stumpswith Abhay Sharma (batting 42) and Yere Goud (batting 1) at the crease.

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Tejinder Pal Singh bowled 18.4 overs on the trot returning with the figures of 5-37 while Kulamani Parida had an excellent spell of 10-7-7-2.

Scoreboard
Vidarbha (1st Innings): Amit Deshpande c Rawat b Bangar 19, Adwait Manohar b Tejinder 4, Vivek Naidu b Harvinder 10, Alind Naidu run out 19, Manish Dosi c Pagnis b Tejinder 12 S Harbade c Bangar b Parida 0 Chandrashekar Atram c Bangar b Tejinder 0, Sameer Khare not out 1, Preetam Gandhe c Bangar b Tejinder 1, Abhijit Piprode b Parida 1, Amol Jichkar c Raja Ali b Tejinder 12
Extras: (b 1, lb 3, nb 6) 10
TOTAL: (all out in 44.4 overs) 89
Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-26, 3-47, 4-73, 5-73, 6-74, 7-74, 8-75, 9-76.
Bowling: Harvinder Singh 8-2-25-1, Sanjay Bangar7-2-15-1, Tejinder Pal Singh 18.4-7-37-5, Shahid Khan 1-0-1-0, Kulamani Parida 10-7-7-2.

Railways (1st Innings):
Amit Pagnis c Gandhe b Jichkar 53, Sanjay Bangar lbw b Dosi 46, Abhay Sharma batting 42, Yere Goud batting 2 Extras: (b 3, lb 3, nb 4) 10 TOTAL: (for 2 wkts, 43 overs) 153
Fall of wickets: 1-102, 2-145
Bowling: Abhijit Piprode 6-0-23-0, Chandrashekhar Atram 7-0-25-0, Preetam Gandhe 11-0-45-0, Sameer Khare 3-0-16-0, Manish Dosi 10-1-19-1, Amol Jichkar 6-1-19-1. Khurasia, Yadav prop MP
GWALIOR: HALF-CENTURY knocks by Amay Khurasia and J P Yadav helped host Madhya Pradesh to score 214 runs for 5 against Rajasthan on the first day of Ranji Trophy cricket match here on Monday.
Madhya Pradesh captain Chandrakant Pandit won the toss and opted to bat first. Khurasia and Yadav fetched 114 runs for the second wicket partnership.At close, Pandit and Nikhil Patwardhan were batting on 14 and 21 respectively. Scoreboard: Madhya Pradesh: (1st innings): J P Yadav b Rahul Kanwat 70, Ankit Shrivastav lbw b Shamsher Singh 17, Amay Khurasia lbw b Krishna Kumar 59, Devendra Bundela c Jhawar b Sanjeev 4, Abbas Ali c Jhawar b Md Aslam 17, Nikil Patwardhan batting 21, Chandrakant Pandit batting 14 Extras: 12 TOTAL: (for five wickets) 214 Fall of wickets: 1-40, 2-154, 3-154, 4-174, 5-177
Bowling: Shamsher Singh 10-5-15-1, Anshu Jain 1-0-2-0, P Krishna Kumar 12-1-39-1, Sanjeev Sharma 22-10-41-1, Rahul Kanwat 21-6-40-1, Gagan Khoda 3-0-9-0, Md Aslam 17-4-39-1, Devendra Pal 3-1-25-0.
Dharmani, Mongia dazzleJALANDHAR:
An unbeaten 330-run fourth wicket partnership between centurions Pankaj Dharmani and Dinesh Mongia put Punjab in the driving seat on the second day of the North Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Jammu and Kashmir here on Monday.

Mongia (176 not out) and Dharmani (148 not out) hit brilliant centuries in the mammoth stand and rescued Punjab from a precarious 36 for three to finish the day at 366 for three and take a comfortable 198-run first innings lead with seven wickets in hand. Jammu and Kashmir were all out for 168 runs.