Vaibhav Rawal’s preventing unbeaten 95 stood out amid some actually senseless batting by his Delhi teammates on Friday afternoon and proved instrumental in denying Tamil Nadu an outright victory of their Ranji Trophy league conflict on the Ferozeshah Kotla floor right here.
For the document, Tamil Nadu bowled out Delhi for 262 and stared on the goal of 139 for a extremely inconceivable victory, in probably single-digit overs.
Eventually, within the six overs that Delhi bowled in 50 minutes, Tamil Nadu hit up 54 for 3 earlier than unhealthy mild caused an anticipated finish.
The resultant draw meant three factors for Tamil Nadu for gaining the primary innings lead and one to undefeated Delhi.
After three rounds, within the eight-team Group B, Tamil Nadu (6 factors) is positioned sixth and Delhi (2) seventh. Mumbai, Maharashtra (13 every), Saurashtra (12) and Assam (10) maintain the top-four positions. After seven rounds, the highest two finishers will qualify for the quarterfinals.
Tamil Nadu began the day seeking to get 9 Delhi wickets on the earliest. The wicket of night-watchman Vikas Mishra got here straightforward however in-form opener Dhruv Shorey (70, 115b, 11×4) and skipper Yash Dhull (37, 33b, 7×4) batted positively to placed on 51 runs off 68 balls.
With Delhi seeking to not solely maintain on to the wickets but in addition rating briskly, a tame draw appeared possible when Shorey and Rawal (95 not out, 142b, 13×4) added one other 70 runs off simply 84 balls.
Even after Jonty Sidhu (14, 59b, 1×4) got here in on the fall of Shorey, Delhi regarded secure. Another 43 runs got here in 96 deliveries to strengthen the opportunity of a draw.
Thereafter, it took a collapse, triggered by Sidhu’s ill-advised heave that didn’t clear Vijay Shankar off part-time spinner Pradosh Paul.
Rawal may solely watch helplessly as 5 extra wickets tumbled for 30 runs to boost Tamil Nadu’s hopes of victory.
Expectedly, Delhi’s gamesmanship in denying Tamil Nadu the victory got here to the fore. In the six overs of tempo, Openers B. Sai Sudharsan and N. Jagadeesan, and later Washington Sundar, performed to their status earned in white-ball cricket and hit 4 sixes and two fours. Desperation noticed the dismissals of the openers and Baba Aparajith, however it meant little.
SCORECARD
Delhi – 1st innings: 303.
Tamil Nadu – 1st innings: 427/8dec.
Delhi – 2nd innings: Dhruv Shorey v Jagadeesan b Warrier 70, Anuj Rawat b Sundar 14, Vikas Mishra c Indrajith b Vignesh 0, Yash Dhull lbw b Sai Kishore 37, Vaibhav Rawal (not out) 95, Jonty Sidhu c Vijay Shankar b Pradosh 14, Himmat Singh st. Jagadeesan b Sai Kishore 12, Lalit Yadav c Jagadeesan b Warrier 2, Pranshu Vijayran b Sundar 1, Harshit Rana lbw b Sundar 3, Kuldip Yadav b Sundar 0; Extras (b-6, lb-5, nb-1, w-2) 14; Total (in 79.5 overs) 262.
Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-45, 3-96, 4-166, 5-209, 6-232, 7-237. 8-242. 9-256.
Tamil Nadu bowling: Sundar 17.5-2-43-4, Sai Kishore 17-4-53-2, Warrier 17-0-1-64-2, Vignesh 14-4-43-1, Aswin Crist 2-0-13-0, Vijay Shankar 4-1-18-0, Pradosh Paul 8-2-17-1.
Tamil Nadu – 2nd innings: Sai Sudharshan c Shorey b Kuldip Yadav 24, N. Jagadeesan c Rawat b Rana 18, Washington Sundar (not out) 9, B. Aparajith c Rawat b Kuldip Yadav 0, B. Indrajith (not out) 1; Extras (nb-1, w-1) 2; Total (for 3 wkts. in six overs) 54.
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-47, 3-47.
Delhi bowling: Rana 3-0-27-1, Kuldip Yadav 3-0-27-2.