da pinnacle： Hyderabad lost their way after a century stand between openers NandaKishore and Daniel Manohar, closing out the third day of their Ranji Trophy South Zone clash against Tamil Nadu at a decidedlyuncomfortable 268/5
Sankhya Krishnan17-Nov-2000Hyderabad lost their way after a century stand between openers NandaKishore and Daniel Manohar, closing out the third day of their Ranji Trophy South Zone clash against Tamil Nadu at a decidedlyuncomfortable 268/5. They were replying to the visitors’ imposing firstinnings score of 566 at the NuclearFuel Complex ground in Hyderabad. Acquiring the first innings lead, ofwhich visions were raised when the openers were piling up 171 for thefirst wicket, now looks a mere pipedream. It was Tamil Nadu’s spinattack of Balaji Rao (2/65) and Sridharan Sriram (3/51) which causedthe rapid downswing in the host team’s fortunes, sharing all fivewickets betwen them.Manohar and Nanda Kishore who resumed at 18 without loss kept theTamil Nadu attack at bay for more than 55 overs today before theformer was trapped leg before by wrist spinner Rao for 69 (185 balls,9 fours). Anirudh Singh filled the breach and in his skipper’s companylifted the score to 220 when events began to unfold with rapidity.Having batted almost five and a half hours for his 129 (227 balls, 18fours), Nanda Kishore was bowled by Sriram.The left arm spinner struck again 16 runs later, trapping Vanka Pratapleg before and in his next over he rattled Vinay Kumar’s stumps forgood measure to leave Hyderabad gasping at 244/4. There was morecalamity to follow as Balaji Rao, not to be outdone, had ParthSatwalkar leg before for a tenth ball duck. In the midst of thisprocession, Anirudh Singh withstood all that was hurled at him toremain unbeaten on 38 and will resume battle on Saturday in thecompany of Fiaz Ahmed.