Washington hit a strokeful 152 as Tamil Nadu took heavy toll of the Delhi assault in a Ranji Trophy match.
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Pardosh Ranjan Paul’s century helped Tamil Nadu swell its whole.
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SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
Tamil Nadu piled on the runs for a second successive day to amass a complete of 674 for six declared — its highest-ever towards Delhi within the Ranji Trophy — on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. Washington Sundar and Pradosh Ranjan Paul’s centuries have been the highlights on day two towards a Delhi bowling unit wanting firepower.
In response, Delhi was 43 for no loss at stumps.
In Saturday’s opening session, pacers Navdeep Saini and Himanshu Chauhan have been a bit extra probing with their lengths, and have been rewarded with two wickets inside 15 overs — greater than Delhi had managed via the whole lot of day one. B. Sai Sudharsan was dismissed by Saini after including 11 runs to his in a single day rating of 202 — a look down the leg facet resulted in an edge to the wicketkeeper — whereas B. Indrajith performed a size ball by Chauhan onto the stumps.
However Washington and Pradosh swiftly bolstered Tamil Nadu’s benefit with a 92-run partnership off 150 deliveries. As soon as Saini and Chauhan have been away from the assault after their preliminary spells, Delhi’s spinners struggled to construct any strain. Ones and twos have been milked with ease, and the boundaries too got here at pretty common intervals. That the 87.4 overs bowled between off-spinner Mayank Rawat and left-arm spinner Harsh Tyagi yielded simply the lone wicket of M. Shahrukh Khan encapsulated their ineffectiveness.
Having resumed the day on 96, Washington moved from 99 to 103 for his second First-Class ton with an edge between second slip and gully for 4. At different instances, Washington’s pictures have been laced with a contact of sophistication, a nod to his batting pedigree significantly within the longer format.
Pradosh additionally performed a number one hand in Tamil Nadu’s colossal whole. He was nimble-footed towards the spinners, usually stepping out of the crease and piercing the infield to seek out the boundary. Andre Siddarth, in his second First-Class sport, chipped in with an unbeaten 66.
The scores:
Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: B. Sai Sudharsan c Rajvanshi b Saini 213, N. Jagadeesan b Saini 65, Washington Sundar c Sangwan b Chauhan 152, B. Indrajith b Chauhan 16, Pradosh Ranjan Paul b Sidhu 117, Shahrukh Khan c Chauhan b Tyagi 23, Andre Siddarth (not out) 66; Extras (b-4, lb-11, w-4, nb-3): 22; Whole (for six wkts decl. in 158.2 overs): 674.
Fall of wickets: 1-168, 2-400, 3-436, 4-528, 5-557, 6-674.
Delhi bowling: Chauhan 32-4-141-2, Saini 24-3-78-2, Vijayran 5.2-1-26-0, Tyagi 37.4-1-181-1, Rawat 50-2-194-0, Himmat 4-0-18-0, Sidhu 4.2-0-19-1, Dhull 1-0-2-0.
Delhi — 1st innings: Sanat Sangwan (batting) 23, Harsh Tyagi (batting) 15; Extras (b-1, lb-4): 5; Whole (for no loss. in 16 overs): 43.
Tamil Nadu bowling: Gurjapneet 5-1-9-0, Sonu Yadav 3-0-15-0, Mohammed 3-2-1-0, Pradosh 1-0-1-0, Washington 2-0-3-0, Ajith Ram 2-0-9-0.
Toss: Delhi.
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