da bet7： Hyderabad survived a scare to take home five first innings points intheir P Ramachandra Rao Trophy Under 22 game against Kerala at theNuclear Fuel Complex Ground in Hyderabad on Friday
Sankhya Krishnan27-Oct-2000Hyderabad survived a scare to take home five first innings points intheir P Ramachandra Rao Trophy Under 22 game against Kerala at theNuclear Fuel Complex Ground in Hyderabad on Friday. Earlier in the dayKerala new ball bowlers Tinu Yohanan and Prasanth Chandran blew awaythe home team for just 117 in their second innings. That left Kerala avictory target of 207 but they showed little inclination to take upthe gauntlet, limping to 92/3 in 43 overs when stumps were drawn.Hyderabad were bowled out for 263 on the first day, middle order bat NVishal top scoring with an aggressive 81 off 109 balls (9 fours, 3sixes) before being ninth out. Earlier opener A Agarwal had providedsome solidity at the top of the order with a valuable 69, adding 91for the second wicket with Anirudh Singh (38). Spinners Shaju Mathenand Sreekumar Nair claimed seven wickets between them to peg back thehosts.Left arm seamer, Mohd. Ghouse then ran through Kerala with a brillianthaul of 8/43. The 22-year-old from Mahboobnagar began the mayhem bysending back Girilal and Vipin Lal off successive balls to leaveKerala at 37/2. AC Premjith (72) and skipper Sreekumar Nair (64) nowforged a recovery, adding 89 for the third wicket. But Ghouse cameback to haunt the visitors, claiming a hattrick as Kerala slumped from126/2 to 174 all out. With the first three balls of his 30th over,Ghouse sent back Mathen, CM Shyam and Yohanan and came back in hisnext over to finish off the innings.Going into their second innings with a lead of 89, Hyderabad came acropper to be bowled out for 117 half an hour after lunch on the finalday. Yohanan (5/51) and Chandran (4/54) took the first nine wicketsbefore Nair finished off the innings in the 44th over. Kerala had amaximum of 50 overs in which to score the 207 runs and the match wascalled off with seven of the 15 mandatory overs still to be bowled.Ghouse had enough time to add two more victims to take his matchfigures to 10/74.