da betcris： Rain severely curtailed the final day of Tamil Nadu’s South Zone RanjiTrophy encounter against Karnataka at the IIT-Chemplast ground inChennai on Saturday
Sankhya Krishnan11-Nov-2000Rain severely curtailed the final day of Tamil Nadu’s South Zone RanjiTrophy encounter against Karnataka at the IIT-Chemplast ground inChennai on Saturday. Only 14.4 overs were possible during which TamilNadu contrived to lose four wickets to the Karnataka new ball pair ofMansur Ali Khan and Dodda Ganesh who made full use of the overcastconditions.Tamil Nadu collected five points by virtue of their 223 run firstinnings lead, leapfrogging to the top of the zonal table with 13points from two games while Karnataka are at eight from the samenumber of encounters.Tamil Nadu resumed at 77 without loss on the fourth morning, playstarting 45 minutes late due to overnight rain. Rajat Bhatia was thefirst to go, caught by Dharmichand off Khan for 34 in the day’s secondover. Wicket keeper Reuben Paul, having gained promotion to the No.3spot, failed to make use of the opportunity. He was bowled by Ganeshfor two.S Badrinath, fresh from his first innings century in only his secondRanji match, fell to Khan for 48 to leave Tamil Nadu at 92/3. Eightruns later Khan scalped his third victim, bowling R Satish, whofinished an undistinguished first class debut with scores of 11 & 7.The hosts were on 114/4 when play was interrupted due to a lightshower at 11.29 am. The umpires called off play at 2.00 pm after twoinspections.