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Railways in trouble

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NEW DELHI: Yere Goud’s resilient unbeaten half-century kept Railways’ hopes alive after the host stumbled initially in the Ranji Trophy Super League tie against Uttar Pradesh at the Karnail Singh Stadium here on Sunday.

U.P. rode on the good work of its batsmen to score a challenging total of 346 in its first innings. Railways, in reply, was in trouble as it took lunch at 12 for four before struggling to reach 118 for five on day two. Now it needs 79 more runs to avoid follow-on.

The visiting side’s bowling trump card R.P. Singh displayed an accurate spell of seam bowling to make mincemeat of the Railways top order. In the first over of the innings, he had Sanjay Bangar caught behind and struck Harshad Rawle’s stumps.

Milind Tamhane chipped Bhuvneshwar Kumar to R.P. Singh at fine-leg and a few overs later the left-armer castled Sanjib Sanyal.

Goud once again turned out to be the Man Friday for Railways as he survived a few close calls to hold one end intact. With single-minded devotion of staying put at the wicket he brought up his 50 (128 balls, 8x4s) and built a life-infusing partnership worth 60 runs with Karan Sharma. He erected another unbroken stand of 46 runs with Mahesh Rawat before Railways heaved a sigh of relief as stumps were drawn early because of bad light.

The Railways coach Abhay Sharma acknowledged the gravity of the situation. “It’s difficult, we need partnerships to get out of the situation. But it’s not impossible as we have done it before,” he said.

In the morning, Praveen Kumar swung his bat to good effect as he added 47 runs to his overnight score 51 before perishing to an easy catch by Sanyal off Bangar just two runs short of his century The scores:

Uttar Pradesh — 1st innings: S. Shukla lbw b Sharma 19, T. Srivastava c M. Rawat b Anureet 8, S. Raina c H. Rawle b Anureet 66, Mohd. Kaif lbw b Sharma 0, Parvinder c M. Rawat b Anureet 21, Bhuvneshwar c S. Bangar b Murali Kartik 28, P. Chawla lbw b Sharma 47, P. Kumar c S. Sanyal b S. Bangar 98, R.P. Singh c S. Bangar b Murali Kartik 18, M. A. Khan (not out) 24, P. Gupta c Sharma b Murali Kartik 0, Extras 17; Total (in 117.4 overs) 346.

Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-91, 3-91, 4-122, 5-125, 6-191, 7-217, 8-269, 9-346.

Railways bowling: Bangar 20-5-54-1, Anureet 28-5-86-3, Murali Kartik 24.4-3-60-3, Sharma 23-1-73-3, Sanyal 6-1-18-0, Parida 16-1-49-0.

Railways — 1st innings: M. Tamhane c R.P. Singh b B. Kumar 2, S. Bangar c M.A. Khan b R.P. Singh 0, H. Rawle b R.P. Singh 0, Sanyal b R.P. Singh 4, Yere Goud (batting) 50, K. Sharma c M. Amir Khan b P. Chawla 23, M. Rawat (batting) 28, Extras 11; Total (for five wkts. in 52 overs) 118.

Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-1, 3-10, 4-12, 5-72.

Uttar Pradesh bowling: R.P. Singh 16-1-65-3, Bhuvneshwar 11-7-11-1, P. Kumar 11-3-25-0, Chawla 11-5-12-1, P. Gupta 3-3-0-0.

Super League: At Vijayawada: Andhra 191 for three (B. Sumanth 70 batting, Y. Gnaneswara Rao 43 batting) vs Tamil Nadu.

At Vadodara: Maharashtra 228 vs Baroda 305 (A.A. Billakhia 48, Y. Pathan 58, P. Shah 56, I. Pathan 51, R. Pawar 43, S.M. Fallah five for 104).

At Ahmedabad: Gujarat 300 (P. Patel 84, B. Thaker 158, D.M. Popat 45, Gagandeep Singh five for 59) vs Punjab 137 (M. Gony 69, S. Trivedi four for 53, A. Makda five for 20) & 107 for four.

At Rajkot: Saurashtra 344 (C.R. Pathak 88, B.M. Chauhan 114, S. Jogiyani 49, Pankaj Singh five for 59, Gajendra Singh four for 119) vs Rajasthan 106 for five.

Plate Division: Tripura 88 & 111 for five (N.S. Shetty 46 batting) vs Bengal 307 (A.N. Ghosh 50, M. Tiwary 109, L.R. Shukla 48).

At Rohtak: Haryana 287 (R. Dewan 52, Sunny Singh 50, A. Mishra 49, S. Bandekar five for 72) vs Goa 190 (S. Asnodkar 47, A. Ratra 51, J.T. Billa five for 72).

At Ranchi: Himachal Pradesh 551 for eight decl. (Sangram Singh 210, B. Thakkar 166, M. Sharma 56 not out) vs Jharkhand 60 for one.

At Palakkad: Jammu & Kashmir 184 & 26 for one vs Kerala 299 (Rohan Prem 124 not out, A. Nizam four for 47).

At Delhi: Madhya Pradesh 223 (S. Dholpure 59, S. Pitre 46) vs Services 107 for five.

At Nagpur: Assam 299 (J. Martin 71, D. Sharma 44, S. Purkayastha 51) vs Vidarbha 114 for three.

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