da pinnacle： Madhya Pradesh hustled out Hyderabad for 389 to collect a 107-runfirst innings lead in their Ranji Trophy pre-quarterfinal at the DalyCollege Ground in Indore on Tuesday
Staff Reporter13-Mar-2001Madhya Pradesh hustled out Hyderabad for 389 to collect a 107-runfirst innings lead in their Ranji Trophy pre-quarterfinal at the DalyCollege Ground in Indore on Tuesday. On a day when 36 overs were lostdue to bad light, the hosts moved to 116/1 in their second inningsat stumps, and are virtually through to the quarters.Resuming at 300/4, Hyderabad lost their last six wickets for 79. Theysuffered a grievous blow in the third over of the day, losing ANandakishore for 8. The skipper who normally opens the innings withDaniel Manohar gave seamer Jai Prakash Yadav his first wicket. At thesame score of 303, the other overnight batsman Vanka Pratap alsoperished, caught behind by wicket keeper AS Srivastava off mediumpacer Devendra Bundela.Tailender Mohd. Ghouse hit a breezy 23, including two fours and a six,before falling leg before to former India off spinner Rajesh Chauhan, whofinished with figures of 3/84, the best among all the MP bowlers.Returning from a brief journey into the India ranks, NarendraHirwani added a second scalp to his kitty and JP Yadav came back tomop up the tail. No.7 Shivaji Yadav finished unbeaten on 26.MP openers Harvinder Sodhi and Naman Ojha added 78 for the firstwicket to follow up their first innings effort of 69. Sodhi was legbefore to left arm seamer Ghouse for 36 but Ojha (40) and AmayKhurasiya (22) took MP safely through to close of play, with anoverall lead of 223 runs.