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It's advantage Karnataka

Principal Correspondent

Bangalore: On a day when 13 wickets fell, Karnataka held a slight edge though Maharashtra battled hard in the last session of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A match in progress at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. At close on the second day, Maharashtra scored 78 for no loss following-on after being bundled out for 108 in its first innings while trailing Karnataka's 260.

The day started with a touch of Monday morning blues as the host lost its last three wickets for the addition of a mere five runs.

Fiery spells

However Maharashtra's plans for a good start failed as opener S. Satbhai played beside the line to Vinay Kumar's in-swinger and lost his off-stump. Vinay (five for 22) bowled incisively and his fiery spells along with left-arm spinner C. Raghavendra's (four for 37) accuracy proved too tough a barrier for the visitor.

After Satbhai's dismissal, Dheeraj Jadhav (30) and skipper H. Kanitkar played with excessive circumspection, as they feared the demons in the pitch. However both the southpaws were guilty of wasting their vigil with hasty shots. And while Raghavendra kept wheeling away his overs with good purchase, Vinay had his sunshine moment when he trapped Amit Patel immediately after castling Jadhav.

However the hat-trick remained elusive as Dhruv Mohan survived an lbw appeal.

Feeble resistance

The lower middle-order and tail offered feeble resistance and as the innings concluded, some comic relief was gifted by Akhil, who in his follow-through gathered the ball in his right hand and removed the stump with his left while attempting to run-out Burkul! The appeal was rightly turned down.

Maharashtra failed to clear the follow-on mark of 110 and promptly Karnataka skipper Somasundar asked the visitor to bat again.

Different story

However a different story unfolded as Satbhai (53 n.o.) played some delectable drives while Jadhav dropped anchor until retiring hurt with an injured right toe. Satbhai enjoyed a reprieve on 43 with Raghavendra missing out on a caught and bowled chance. Maharashtra has a deficit of 74 but with ten wickets in hand, anything is possible in this match.

The scores: Karnataka — Ist innings: R. Uthappa c S. Satbhai b S. Bahutule 96, B. Chipli b Munaf Patel 27, Barrington Rowland c Satbhai b Munaf 46, S. Shinde c D. Mohan b R. Jadhav 19, S. Somasundar b S. Burkul 31, Thilak Naidu b Kanitkar 11, B. Akhil c Satbhai b Bahutule 3, C. Raghu lbw Bahutule 11, Vinay Kumar c D. Mohan b Bahutule 2, C. Raghavendra b Munaf 0, Udit Patel (not out) 0; Extras: 14 (lb-8, nb-4, w-2); Total: (all out in 95.2 overs) 260.

Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-163, 3-186, 4-206, 5-236, 6-240, 7-251, 8-259, 9-260.

Maharashtra bowling: Munaf 21.2-8-37-3, S. Burkul 10-2-37-1, A. Sanklecha 13-4-31-0, S. Bahutule 31-4-81-4, R. Jadhav 13-1-50-1, H. Kanitkar 7-1-16-1.

Maharashtra — Ist innings: S. Satbhai b Vinay Kumar 0, Dheeraj Jadhav b Vinay 30, H. Kanitkar c C. Raghu b Raghavendra 6, Kaushik Aphale c Chipli b Raghavendra 5, Bahutule b Vinay 19, Amit Patel lbw Vinay 0, D. Mohan c Somasundar b Raghavendra 8, M. Patel c Raghu b Raghavendra 2, A. Sanklecha b Vinay 2, S. Burkul b Akhil 14, D. Jadhav (not out) 9; Extras: 13 (b-4, lb-3, nb-1, penalty 5); Total: (all out in 56.1 overs) 108.

Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-19, 3-33, 4-49, 5-49, 6-60, 7-66, 8-70, 9-73.

Karnataka bowling: Vinay Kumar 15-8-22-5, Akhil 7.1-2-13-1, Raghavendra 19-8-37-4, Udit Patel 11-3-16-0, C. Raghu 4-0-8-0.

Maharashtra — IInd innings: S. Satbhai (batting) 53, Dheeraj Jadhav (retired hurt) 15, H. Kanitkar (batting) 2. Extras: 8 (b-6, lb-2). Total: 78 (for no loss in 28 overs).

Karnataka bowling: Vinay 4-1-7-0, Akhil 5-1-19-0, Raghavendra 10-4-21-0, Udit 8-1-22-0, Raghu 1-0-1-0.

Other scores:

Elite group:

At Delhi: Railways 77 and 180 (J.P. Yadav 90, A. Sharma five for 39) lost to Delhi 131 (Murali Kartik eight for 40) and 127 for three (Gautam Gambhir 43).

At Hyderabad: Services 196 vs. Hyderabad 278 for six (D.S. Manohar 54, Anirudh Singh 95, D. Vinay Kumar 49 batting).

At Surat: Bengal 405 for seven (Arindam Das 64, A. Jhunjhunwala 72, Deep Dasgupta 124 batting, Shibsagar Singh 46 batting) vs. Gujarat.

At Vadodara: Punjab 130 and 69 for five (Zaheer Khan five for 41) vs. Baroda 262 (C. Williams 50, J. Martin 80, Gagandeep Singh five for 84).

At Anantpur: Haryana 206 (Siddharth Verma 45, Sachin Rana 52, Pardeep Sahu 41, K.S. Sahabuddin four for 43) vs. Andhra 192 for four (M.S.K. Prasad 79, Venugopala Rao 70).

At Mumbai: Mumbai 430 (W. Jaffer 162, N. Shetty 77) vs. Tamil Nadu 208 for eight (D. Kaarthick 98 batting).

Plate group:

At Rajkot: Saurashtra 439 (J.N. Shah 90, Cheteshwar Pujara 145, S.H. Kotak 60, B. Songavkar 80 not out, A. Aware four for 111) vs. Goa 50 for three.

At Udaipur: Assam 240 (Arunkumar 123, S.V. Saravanan 41, M. Aslam four for 35) vs. Rajasthan 172 for four (N.G. Gehlot 42 batting)

At Palakkad: Kerala 399 (S. Suresh 121, S. Ramesh 60, Sunil Oasis 53, F.M. Robert 59, Sunny Gupta four for 128) vs. Jharkhand 189 (M.V. Joglekar 67) and 13 for one.

At Agartala: Vidarbha 156 and 184 for five (A.V. Deshpande 57, Alind Naidu 50) vs. Tripura 112 (T.K. Chanda 41).

At Indore: Jammu and Kashmir 257 for five (A. Butt 89,Y. Golwalkar 76, D. Mahajan 42).

At Cuttack: Himachal Pradesh 168 (M. Gupta 62, R. Nayar 50 not out, Sourav Sehgal seven for 39) vs. Orissa 18 for no loss.

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