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Hyderabad capitulates

Principal Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad’s challenge in the 77th all-India Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup invitation cricket tournament ended on Saturday when the host lost the initiative after being in a vantage position against Madhya Pradesh here on Saturday.

Resuming at 47 for one, and needing 291 in 90 overs to get the first innings lead in the three-day match, Hyderabad was sitting pretty at 175 for two in 57 overs with captain S. Daniel Manohar (73, 172 balls, 8x4) and debutant Mohammad Shaker (70, 103b, 9x4, 1x6) looking good in their 113-run stand for the third wicket.

Brilliant catch

A brilliant diving catch by Murtuza Ali at point to grab a slash from Manohar off Sanjay Pandey (176 for three in the 58th over) and a dubious decision by umpire D. Elangovan, who ruled a dangerous-looking Shaker leg-before against the same bowler, when the batsman had advanced way down the track to play a forcing shot on the off-side (198 for five in the 64th over), changed the course of the match.

In between, N. Arjun Yadav was cleaned up by Pandey as the batsman played all over an incoming delivery. Rohit Sabharwal’s (11) cheap dismissal and two suicidal run-outs by Pragyan Ojha and Ashwin Yadav also compounded the host’s woes. Pandey’s splendid reflexes to latch on to a powerful backdrive from Niranjan signalled the end of Hyderabad innings at 246 and celebrations in MP camp.

The scores (three-day matches):

Madhya Pradesh 290 drew with Hyderabad 246 in 81.4 overs (S.Daniel Manohar 73, Mohammad Shaker 70, Sanjay Pandey four for 50). MP clinched the issue by virtue of first innings lead.

IOC 403 for seven drew with Kerala 111 in 48.1 overs. IOC moves up by virtue of first innings lead.

Vidarbha 242 drew with Saurashtra 249 for eight in 83 overs (Pratik Mehta 104 not out). Saurashtra took the lead.

Tripura 272 in 89.2 overs drew with Tamil Nadu 274 for five in 81.5 overs (K. Shri Vasudeva Das 109, R. Srinivas 61, Abhinav Mukund 49). TN clinched the first innings lead.

After play was abandoned on the first two days, the following matches were reduced to one-dayers:

Bengal 170 in 47.6 overs (Rana Choudhary 55, Preetam Das three for 47) bt Assam 157 (Tejwinder Singh 48, S.S. Paul five for 27).

USA 122 in 44.1 overs (Ryan Ninan four for 29) lost to Karnataka 123 for three (C.Raghu 49 not out).

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