da cassino： After being bowled out for 204, Karnataka hit back by taking threeKerala wickets for 57 runs at close of play on the first day of theirSouth Zone Cooch Behar Trophy (under-19) match at the KRL ground inAmbalamugal on Saturday
Partab Ramchand14-Oct-2000After being bowled out for 204, Karnataka hit back by taking threeKerala wickets for 57 runs at close of play on the first day of theirSouth Zone Cooch Behar Trophy (under-19) match at the KRL ground inAmbalamugal on Saturday.The day’s individual honours however went to Kerala medium pacerSanth, who took a hat-trick. Put in to bat, Karnataka were given asound start with openers HTS Rao (32) and DV Krishna (27) adding 59runs off 17.4 overs. Then Santh got into the wicket taking act. Firsthe had Rao leg before. Off his next delivery he bowled Stuart Binny.And with his next ball he disturbed the stumps of DG Chougle. All thishappened in the first over of Santh’s second spell.Krishna also fell at the same score in the following over. Skipper CRaghu (52) and MK Sachin (20) then initiated a recovery process byputting on 70 runs for the fifth wicket off 21.5 overs. Sooraj thenrocked Karnataka by dismissing Sachin and BMV Uthappa in the space offour deliveries. Raghu himself was seventh out at 154. He faced 114balls and hit five fours. But tailenders SS Kumar (34 not out) and KVBhat (16) put up some resistance to take Karnataka past the 200 runmark. After the early damage by Santh, who finished with three for 47,the rest of the wickets were shared by Aneesh (4 for 50) and Sooraj (3for 34).Kerala, in reply, lost their wickets at regular intervals and were ina shaky position at stumps. Rain halted the match for an hour shortlyafter play started and play was extended for about the same time.