da cassino online： Tamil Nadu is grinding Delhi to abject submission, making the Delhi playerstake the field to be in the scorching sun
Staff Reporter13-Mar-2001Tamil Nadu is grinding Delhi to abject submission, making the Delhi playerstake the field to be in the scorching sun. Tamil Nadu have virtually sealeda place in the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals by taking the first innings leadagainst Delhi in the pre-quarter-final at the IIT-Chemplast Ground,Chennai, on Tuesday. Tamil Nadu are 278/4 at close of play, piling up anoverall lead of 516 runs.Resuming at 354/7, Delhi were bowled out for 365. MR Shrinivas picked upone more wicket in the morning to finish with the figures of 29-5-111-4. SMahesh finished with 3/102 off 29 overs.Robin Singh decided not to enforce the follow on and took the opportunityto get his batsmen some more batting practice. Theopening batsmen did not justify their captain’s good intentionsthough; both Sriram and Badarinath got themselves run out aftermaking just 16 and 21 respectively.It was all S Sharath and Hemanth Kumar for the rest of the day,both the batsmen smashing the ball all over the park. They added207 runs for the third wicket before Hemanth was dismissed at 244.He made a classy 87 (1 six, 6 fours) and was distinctly unlucky tomiss out on his second century of the match. He has had a remarkable startto his first class career scoring a century in his only innings againstKerala on debut and then going on to score a hundred in the first inningsin this match.Sharath who missed out on a big score in the first innings, made itup in the second by belting the ball to the fence with gay abandon, hittingan unbeaten 144 by close of play. He has so far smashed 18 fours and twosixes off 251 balls. S Mahesh is unbeaten on four.Given the fact that Tamil Nadu has a long batting line up, it might well beanother long day in the field on the last day for Delhi.