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Cricket
By Our Special Correspondent
Tamil Nadu was 99 for two at stumps, with skipper and opener S. Suresh (50, 118b, 5x4) and S. Badrinath (26) together. The talking point of the afternoon was Tamil Nadu's decision to bat a second time after bundling out Assam for 134 at the stroke of tea. The home team that had earlier been dismissed for 310 had gained a lead of 176, with the Assam innings consuming just 49.1 overs. Tamil Nadu coach B. Arun said the move was influenced by the fact that the pitch was wearing out. "We wanted to avoid batting last on this wicket. Moreover, one of our frontline pacemen M.R. Shrinivas suffered an ankle injury today," said Arun. The host appeared full of beans on the field with R. Ramkumar, in the midst of a rewarding season, picking up four wickets. The left-arm spinner did not really deliver from close to the stumps, but he stuck to an off-stump line, and put seeds of doubts in the minds of the batsmen with his flight and turn. He castled R. Satish with a lovely arm ball too. Tamil Nadu's young pace pack also had its moments with D. Tamilkumaran making an impressive debut, bowling a full length and moving the ball both ways at a brisk pace, while C. Ganapathy got the ball to climb sharply on occasion. Assam was off to a disastrous start when Parag Das perished to the first ball edging Shrinivas to Vidyut Sivaramakrishan at second slip. The innings that lacked in application continued to falter with the efforts from Vasant Saravanan and Gautam Dutta, both made 30, being the highest contributions. The scoreboard: Tamil Nadu — Ist innings: S. Suresh lbw b G. Dutta 14; D. Kaarthick b R. Raghuram 71; S. Sriram c Z. Zukri b R. Satish 19; S. Badrinath c S. Saikia b R. Satish 1; S. Sharath c & b P. Das 14; S. Viswanathan c R. Satish b O. Konwar 13; Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan c Powar b R. Raghuram 53; R. Ramkumar c Powar b R. Satish 73; C. Ganapathy b R.K. Yadav 16; M.R. Shrinivas (not out) 6; D. Tamilkumaran c & b Yadav 12; Extras (b-9, lb-6, w-1, nb-2) 18; Total (all out) 310. Fall of wickets: 1-34; 2-81; 3-85; 4-113; 5-140; 6-144; 7-237; 8-291; 9-291. Assam bowling: G. Dutta 13-1-56-1; R.K. Yadav 22.2-3-68-2; P. Das 10-2-30-1; O. Konwar 19-7-42-1; R. Satish 9-1-33-3; R. Raghuram 12-1-39-2; K. Powar 8-2-27-0. Assam — Ist innings: P. Das c Vidyut b Shrinivas 0; S. Saikia c Kaarthick b Ganapathy 18; K. Powar b Tamilkumaran 14; V. Saravanan c Suresh b Ganapathy 30; Z. Zufri lbw b Suresh 1; R. Satish b Ramkumar 16; S. Singh c & b Ramkumar 0; G. Dutta c S. Viswanathan b Tamilkumaran 30; O. Konwar c S. Viswanathan b Ramkumar 9; R. Raghuram c Vidyut b Ramkumar 6; R.K. Yadav (not out) 0; Extras (b-1, w-2, nb-7) 10; Total (all out) 134. Fall of wickets: 1-0; 2-31, 3-33, 4-40, 5-77, 6-77, 7-98, 8-123, 9-133. Tamil Nadu bowling: M.R. Shrinivas 6-4-6-1; D. Tamilkumaran 15-5-32-2; C. Ganapathy 11-1-57-2; S. Suresh 8-4-14-1; R. Ramkumar 9.1-4-24-4. Tamil Nadu — 2nd innings: S. Suresh (batting) 50; D. Kaarthick lbw b R.K. Yadav 0; S. Sriram b Konwar 22; S. Badrinath (batting) 26; Extras (b-1) 1; Total (for two wkts) 99. Fall of wickets: 1-0; 2-49. Assam bowling: G. Dutta 3-1-13-0; R.K. Yadav 6-0-24-1; R. Sathish 3-0-8-0; P. Das 5-1-13-0; Konwar 9-2-25-1; R. Raghuram 5-2-11-0; K. Powar 2-0-2-0; S. Saikia 1-0-2-0.
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