Kalyankrishna, Shahbuddin give AP victory

D Kalyankrishna and K S Shahbuddin came up with fine bowling performances to help Andhra post a convincing 114-run victory over hosts Haryana in their Super League Ranji Trophy Group A match in Rohtak, Haryana, on Sunday.

Chasing a target of 242 runs, Haryana collapsed like a deck of cards and folded for only 127 runs in the second essay.

Resuming at overnight score of 92 for 3, Haryana lost Shafiq Khan and Sachin Rana early to Kalyankrishna, who had an impressive five-wicket haul.

Khan (30) was the top-scorer for his team.

Shabuddin, who bagged four wickets, then showed the door to the middle order batsmen M Rawat and S Verma without allowing them to open their account.

Joginder Sharma provided some late resistance to score 20, but that was not enough to avoid defeat for Haryana.

Scorecard

Andhra (1st innings): 202

Haryana (1st innings): 129

Andhra (2nd innings): 168

Haryana (2nd innings): (Overnight 92 for 3)
Sumit Sharma lbw Kalyankrishna 28
Sunny Singh c M S K Prasad b Sahabuddin 6
D Joon lbw b Venugopal Rao 18
Shafiq Khan c M S K Prasad b Kalyankrishna 30
S Rana c M S K Prasad b Kalyankrishna 12
M Rawat b Sahabuddin 0
S Verma c M S K Prasad b Sahabuddin 0
Joginder Sharma c Pradeep b Kalyankrishna 20
A Mishra c M S K Prasad b Kalyankrishna 1
G Vashisht lbw b Sahabuddin 6
S Budhwar not out 0
Extras: (lb 4, nb 2) 6
Total: (all out: 67.2 overs) 127

Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-41, 3-74, 4-93, 5-94, 6-98, 7-102, 8-110, 9-127.

Bowling: K S Sahabuddin 20.2-8-37-4, D Kalyankrishna 20-8-41-5, R V C Prasad 7-2-15-0, Y Gnaneswar Rao 7-3-12-0, Y Venugopal Rao 12-5-18-1, Y L Kishore 1-1-0-0.