Hyderabad, Oct 17: Skipper Ayush Badoni’s career-best figures of 5/69, including the prized scalp of Hyderabad captain Tilak Varma, put Delhi in line for a first-innings lead after the third day’s play in the opening group D fixture of the Ranji Trophy here on Friday.
Replying to Delhi’s mammoth first-innings score of 529/4 declared, Hyderabad lost senior batter Rohit Rayudu off the last ball of the day to finish on 400 for 7 at stumps.
Hyderabad still need 130 runs to take the first-innings lead and while the pitch at the Next-Gen ground is conducive for batting, the hosts are only left with keeper Rahul Radesh (41 batting) along with the tail-enders.On the day, Hyderabad batters showed a lot of intent to score 323 runs in the entire day’s play.
Auqib Nabi takes five against Mumbai
Jammu and Kashmir need 222 runs on the final day to beat a star-studded Mumbai who had a first-innings lead of 61 in the morning session only to lose some advantage getting all-out for 181 in their second innings. (PTI)
