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Madras dismissed cheaply

Special Correspondent

— Photo: V. Ganesan

Clueless: K. Anand of University of Madras has no answer to this one from Ravi Shankar Singh (University of Mumbai).

CHENNAI: University of Madras was dismissed for 196 on the first day of the all-India inter-University cricket tournament final here at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.

University of Mumbai opening bowler Ravi Shankar Singh and left-arm spinner Vishal Dhabholkar took three wickets each on Wednesday to give their team control of the two-day innings-a-side match.

V. Maaruthi Raghav top-scored for Madras with a 105-ball 64, having walked to the middle with the side on three for one in the third over. The left-hander struck nine fours before being caught behind off seamer Rohan Sadar Joshi.

Disciplined

Mumbai’s bowlers operated with discipline and patience on a slow surface, taking wickets at regular intervals — four each in the first and third sessions and two between lunch and tea — as Madras struggled to raise a partnership of substance. The highest was 43 for the second wicket between Raghav and R. Prashanth.

Ravi Shankar Singh, who bowled to a seven-two off-side field, managed to cut the odd ball from off. The right-arm medium pacer uprooted K. Anand’s leg-stump with a break-back that sneaked past the batsman’s front pad.

Singh had earlier provided Mumbai the breakthrough by bowling opener R.M. Karthik.

Dhabholkar was steady as was fellow left-arm spinner Ankit Chavan. For Madras, the last-wicket pair of M. Raja and K. Palaniappan added a handy 32 in 16 overs.

The scores:

University of Madras 196 in 88.1 overs (V. Maaruthi Raghav 64, Ravi Shankar Singh three for 55, Vishal Dhabholkar three for 38) vs. University of Mumbai.

Losing semifinalists:

Guru Nanak University 266 in 79.4 overs (Gagandeep Singh 47, Armindar Singh 42, Hitesh Sharma 46, M.O. Arjun Sarathy five for 101, K. Shri Vasudeva Das four for 72) vs. SRM 24 University for one in eight overs.

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