South Zone were 127 for the loss of three wickets on the second day of the four-day Duleep Trophy match against Central Zone, at Lalbhai stadium in Surat on Friday.
South captain Hemang Badani and Dinesh Karthick were unbeaten on 24 and 50 respectively when stumps were drawn for the day.
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Earlier, resuming at the overnight score of 299 for three, Central Zone added 179 runs before being all out for 478 in their first essay.
Devendra Bundela, who was unbeaten on 15 at close on day 1, went on to score 91. Piyush Chawla also chipped in with a fine 60 to swell Central's total.
For South Zone, Ramkumar took three wickets for 95 runs while L Balaji, K Shahbuddin and Sreekumar Nair chipped in with two wickets each.
Scorecard
Central Zone (1st innings):
S B Bangar c Karthik b Sahabuddin 11
A A Pagnis c Badani b Ramkumar 142
Jyoti P Yadav c Karthik b Ramkumar 87
D Bundela c Karthik b Vinay Kumar 22
S Abbas Ali c Yadav b Balaji 33
NV Ojha c Sriram b Sahabuddin 22
NS Doru c Uthappa b Balaji 6
Piyush Chawla lbw Nair 60
Harvinder Singh c Nair b Ramkumar 57
K S Parida not out 11
S Pandey c Badani b Nair 3.
Extras: (b 1, lb 4, w 2, nb 17) 24
Total: (all out, 147.3 overs) 478
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-252, 3-254, 4-308, 5-335, 6-340, 7-353, 8-445, 9-466, 10-478.
Bowling: Balaji 28-5-98-2 3nb), Vinay Kumar 29-5-93-1, Sahabuddin 29-3-94-2 (12nb, 1w), Ramkumar 37-8-95-3, Nair 17.3-2-57-2 (1nb), Uthappa 2-0-20-0 (1nb, 1w), Yadav 4-1-12-0, Sriram 1-0-4-0.
South Zone (1st innings):
A R Uthappa c Pagnis b Bangar 31
B M Rowland c Ojha b Harvinder Singh 1
S Sriram c Yadav b Piyush Chawla 13
D Karthik not out 50
H Badani not out 24
Extras: (b 4, lb 3, nb 1) 8
Total: (3 wickets, 32 overs) 127
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-50, 3-50.
Bowling: Harvinder Singh 10-0-37-1 (1nb), Pandey 5-0-27-0, Bangar 6-3-6-1, Piyush Chawla 8-0-30-1, Parida 2-1-5-0, Yadav 1-0-5-0.
