da apostaganha： Hyderabad: Resuming at the overnight score of 300 for 5, both thebatsmen continued from where they left off yesterday and were lookinggood for a huge score
Blessington Thomas17-Nov-1999Hyderabad: Resuming at the overnight score of 300 for 5, both thebatsmen continued from where they left off yesterday and were lookinggood for a huge score. Until Venugopala Rao was brilliantly taken bythe lone slip in M V Sridhar diving full stretch to his left andpicking the dipping ball off the steady bowling of Laxman in his firstover of the day.In two minutes over an hour today Venu added 23 more to his overnight72 and added 55 runs for the 6th wicket in 76 minutes off 18.3 overs.Vatekar joined Sai [27] and tried to speed up the scoring rate. Headded 28 runs in 50 minutes with Sai before he was out caught andbowled by Venkatapathi Raju when he tried to pull him over mid wicketonly to top edge high up in the air.From 371 for 6 at one stage, Andhra lost its last four wickets for theaddition of only 9 runs in 10 overs. Venkatapathi Raju claimed threeof them to return overall bowling figures of 40.5-11-105-5, includingthe wicket of K S T Sai who lofted him for 6 over long-off before hewas last man out for a well made 49 runs.This is the 13th time that Raju has taken 5 or more wickets in aninnings. Playing his 64th Ranji Trophy Match, Raju took his aggregatetally to 255 wickets, behind the Hyderabad coach Arshad Ayub [286] andhis bowling partner Kanwaljeet Singh [258]. The other two wickets tofall today were claimed by Laxman and Kanwaljeet. Andhra’s inningsfolded 3 minutes before lunch on day-2.Hyderabad’s opening pair of Daniel Manohar and V V S Laxman continuedfrom where they left off in the Subbaiah Pillai [ One-Day ] game onSunday in compiling a century stand for the first wicket. First it wasLaxman to reach 50 (95 m, 61 b, 9×4) out of the side’s total of 79,while Daniel followed (181 m, 141b, 4x4s) out of a total of 143.Laxman’s second century in successive matches came in 217 minutes from157 balls and included 14 fours.Laxman’s last seven innings have fetched him 5 centuries, the sequencebeing 219 against Baroda, 110 & 193 against Delhi, 84 & 28 againstM.P., 131 against Goa and 100 [batting] against Andhra. In all hehas 12 centuries in 30 matches and 47 innings. Andhra tried as many assix bowlers to get a break-through. Left armer Ram Kishan played adual role by bowling 11 overs of medium pace followed by 15 overs ofspin.Partnering him was Madhukar who went for 31 runs in his first spell of4 overs, 27 of which were scored by Laxman with 6 fours. Madhukar wasreplaced by young Ranganath who managed to restrict to some extent therun flow, bowling in tandem with Ram Kishan.