Tamil Nadu, Delhi stake claims

Chennai, March 7: A hat-trick by left-arm medium pacer D Devanand embellished Tamil Nadu's innings and 41-run victory over Orissa on the ...

Chennai, March 7: A hat-trick by left-arm medium pacer D Devanand embellished Tamil Nadu’s innings and 41-run victory over Orissa on the final day of the Group B Super League Ranji Trophy match at MA Chidambaram Stadium here today.

The hero of the day, Devanand, began his act by dismissing dangerman Goutam Gopal in his sixth over. Victim No 2 was Sanjay Kumar Satpaty, who played a half-hearted stroke and Hemang dived in front to complete his second successive catch. Devanand pitched up on the off stump and Shaheed Khan obliged with a push. An alert Vasu at fourth slip moved to his left to take a brilliant one-handed catch and Devanand completed the first hat-trick of his career. “I am really thrilled that I got it this time as I missed it twice against Railways,” said an elated Devanand after the match.Orissa (1st innings): 194

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 483

Orissa (2nd innings): Shiv Sundar Das c Paul b Kumaran 23, P Jayachandra c Badani b Kumaran 0, Pravanjan Mullick c Madanagopal b Kumaran 83,Rashmi Ranjan Parida c George b Vasu 16, Pradeep Das c George b Vasu 35, Sanjay Raul c George b Vasu 62, Goutam Gopal c Badani b Devanand 11, Sanjay Kumar Satpaty c Badani b Devanand 0, Shaheed Khan c Vasu b Devanand 0, Debashish Mohanty b Devanand 2, Ajay Barik (not out) 0. Extras (b3, lb10, nb3) 16. Total (all out in 110.3 overs) 248.

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Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-53, 3-115, 4-147, 5-223, 6-238, 7-238, 8-238, 9-244.

Bowling: Devanand 25-7-38-4, Kumaran 26-8-62-3, Mahesh 18-5-56-0, Singh 17-8-27-0, D Vasu 24.3-11-52-3.

Convincing win for Delhi

New Delhi: Delhi spinners Nikhil Chopra (5-41) and Rahul Sanghvi (3-49) required just 25 overs on the final morning to wrap up the Railways second innings for an addition of 61 runs. That left the home team to score a meagre 41 to record an outright victory, which they did, in the Group B Super League match at Kotla here today.

Railways (1st innings): 246

Delhi (1st innings): 373

Railways (2nd innings, overnight 106-5): Zakaria Zufri b Nehra 13, SanjayBangar c A Sharma b Sanghvi 23, Abhay Sharma b Nehra 1, Yere Goud c Dahiya b Chopra 13, Vishal Sharma b Chopra 49, Devender Singh c & b Chopra 1, Murli Kartik st Dahiya b Chopra 1, Dharmendra Mishra (not out) 28, Balaji Rao c Sanghvi b Chopra 4, Zakir Hussain c Sehwag b Sanghvi 0, K Parida c Dahiya b Sanghvi 0. Extra (lb10, b10, nb3, w2): 25. Total (all out in 72 overs): 167.Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-43, 3-52, 4-89, 5-103, 6-117, 7-152, 8-158, 9-158. Bowling: Bhandari 1-0-3-0, R Singh (Jr) 7-0-20-0, Nehra 15-4-24-2, Chopra 20-8-41-5, Sanghvi 24-6-49-3, Sehwag 4-0-8-1, Sharma 1-0-2-0.

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Delhi (2nd innings): Ashu Dani c Bangar b Mishra 19, Vijay Dahiya (not out) 12, Akash Malhotra (not out) 2. Extras (lb1, b4, nb3): 8. Total (for one wicket) 41.

Fall of wicket: 1-28

Bowling: Hussain 3-0-17-0, Bangar 2-0-10-0, Mishra 1-0-8-1, Y Goud 1-0-4-0.