Hosts Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan by an innings and nine runs to garner five points in the last league encounter of the Elite 'B' Ranji Trophy cricket match at the Gymkhana grounds at Hyderabad on Saturday.

Speedster N P Singh's excellent figures of 6-70 and Vishnuvardhan who claimed 4-51 wrecked the Rajasthan innings to bundle them out for 235 and 145 in reply to the hosts first innings total of 389 and brightened the hosts' chances for a berth in knock-out phase.

Cold wave conditions helped the bowlers to dominate the proceedings as the visitors, resuming at 122 for 2, could not tackle N P Singh, who swung the ball well, claiming six scalps to reduce Rajasthan for 235.

Opener Vineet Saxena (62) and D Krishna Kumar (42) were the only batsmen to show some resistance.

In the course of follow-on, Rajasthan fumbled at every crucial juncture with only star batsman Gagan Khoda picking up 45 runs as medium pacer Vishnuvardhan ripped through the batting cream accounting for four crucial wickets for 51 runs.

Daniel Manohar provided icing over the cake by claiming  three wickets, two of them in quick succession to dismiss the visitors for 145 to give Hyderabad a resounding win by an innings and nine runs.

Hyderabad, which has ten points to its credit has moved up to 15 points in Elite 'B' class and depending on the other matches its position for a berth in knock-out phase would be decided.

Scoreboard:

Hyderabad Ist Innings: 389

Rajasthan Ist Innings: (Overnight 122 for 2)
Vineet Saxena lbw Daniel Manohar                     62
 Abhjeet Sharma c Shivaji b Raju                        37
 Nikhil Doru run out                                             22
 Gagan Khoda c Daniel Manohar b N P Singh       30
 Devendra Pal Singh c Vinay Kumar b N P Singh    0
 D Krishna Kumar lbw Fiaz Ahmed                       42
 Rahul Kanwat c Rayudu b N P Singh                  16
 Rohit Jhalani c Arjun b N P Singh                       3
 Sanjeev Sharma c and b N P Singh                      2
 Mohd Aslam c Ibrahim b N P Singh                    0
 Sumeet Mathur not out                                        0

Extras: (lb 10, w 4, nb 7)                     21

Total: (all out in 81.5 overs)                235

Fall of wickets: 1-65, 2-117, 3-159, 4-159, 5-195, 6-229 7-232, 8-234, 9-235.

Bowling: Narendra Pal Singh 26.5-6-70-6, S Vishnuvardhan 20-3-53-0, Mohd Faiz Ahmed 10-2-21-1, S L V Raju 8-1-11-1, Shivaji Yadav 6-0-23-0, Daniel Manohar 11-2-47-1.

Rajasthan IInd Innings:
 Vineet Saxena c Ibrahim b Vishnuvardhan             4
 Abjijeet Sharma b Daniel Manohar                        9
 Nikhil Doru c Shivaji b Vishnuvardhan                   6
 Gagan Khoda c N P Singh b Vishnuvardhan          45
 Rahul Kanwat lbw Vishnuvardhan                         28
 P Krishna Kumar b N P Singh                               1
 Rohit Jhalani c Anirudh Singh b Mohd Fiaz          16
 Devendra Pal Singh c Daniel b Mohd Fiaz             0
 Sanjeev Sharma not out                                       16
 Mohd Aslam b Daniel Manohar                          12
 Sumeet Mathur b Daniel Manohar                        0

Extras: (b 5, lb 1, w 1, nb 1)                      8

Total: (all out in 45 overs)                      145

Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-13, 3-25, 4-68, 5-69, 6-95, 7-95, 8-117, 9-145.

Bowling: Narendra Pal Singh 13-0-64-1, Mohd Fiaz Ahmed 5-3-6-2, Vishnu Vardhan 21-6-51-4, Daniel Manohar 6-1-18-3.