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Vihari ton powers Hyderabad fight

Hyderabad: Youngster G.H. Vihari stroked 145 as Hyderabad built a solid lead of 266 on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Group ‘C’ match against Kerala at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Resuming at 46 for 1 with a deficit of 17 runs in the second innings, Hyderabad ended Day Three at a formidable 329 for 5.

The hosts lost overnight batsman B. Sandeep early on, for 30 runs with the score on 79. But Vihari carried on in an unflappable manner. Not even the fact that they lost the wicket of in-form Ravi Teja just 11 runs later fazed the promising batsman.

Vihari and allrounder Ahmed Quadri put together 134 runs for the sixth wicket before Quadri departed after a well-made 74. By the time Vihari was dismissed after a 296-ball stay at the wicket which included 16 boundaries, Hyderabad had made 300, a lead of 237. Amol Shinde, unbeaten on 48, and Ashish Reddy (batting on 19) added 29 runs without any further incident when play was called off for the day.

Even if Hyderabad declare overnight, Kerala will have to go hell-for-leather on a fourth day pitch for the all-important outright victory. As things stand right now, a draw seems the more likely scenario.

Scorecard: Hyderabad 1st innings: 201 in 74.4 overs.
Kerala 1st innings 263 in 83.4 overs
Hyderabad 2nd innings: Akshath Reddy b Parameswaran 0, G.H. Vihari c Surendran b Niyas 145 (296b, 16x4), B .Sandeep c Prasanth b Niyas 30, D.B. Ravi Teja c Jagadeesh b Niyas 2, Ahmed Quadri b Prasanth 74, Amol Shinde (batting) 48, Ashish Reddy batting 19. Extras (b5, w2, nb4) 11. Total (For five wickets in 106 overs) 329.
FoW: 1-0, 2-79, 3-90, 4-224, 5-300.
Bowling: P. Parameswaran 21-2-66-1; S. Sandeep Warrier 21-4-63-0; N. Niyas 18-3-82-3; C.P. Shahid 23-8-42-0; V. Manoharan 10-2-34-0; V.A. Jagadeesh 2-0-4-0; P. Prasanth 11-20-33-1.

City U-19 in Cooch Behar knock-outs

DC Correspondent

Hyderabad: Hyderabad surged into the knock-out phase of the Cooch Behar Trophy under-19 Plate Division with a commanding innings and 11-run victory against hosts Tripura on Wednesday.

Tripura, who were asked to follow on after getting bowled out for 140 in response to Hyderabad’s first innings total of 366, were bundled out for 215 in their second innings.

R.A. Dey top-scored for Tripura with a 59 while for Hyderabad, Roshan Raghuram (3 for 36) and first-innings centurion, captain Tanmay Agarwal (3 for 36), shone with the ball.

Brief scores: Hyderabad 366 bt Tripura 140 & 215 in 73.5 Overs (B.B. Ghosh 41, S.S. Sutradhar 43, R.A. Dey 59, Jayasuryia 2/41, Roshan Raghuram 3/36, Tanmay Agarwal 3/35).

( Source : dc correspondent )
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