Yadav, Kaif help UP seize initiative on Day 2
Half centuries from Jyoti Yadav and Mohammed Kaif took Uttar Pradesh within hopping distance of the first innings lead at the end of the second day of their Ranji Trophy quarter final match against Hyderabad at the Green Park in Kanpur today
31-Mar-2000
Half centuries from Jyoti Yadav and Mohammed Kaif took Uttar Pradesh
within hopping distance of the first innings lead at the end of the
second day of their Ranji Trophy quarter final match against Hyderabad
at the Green Park in Kanpur today. Having bowled out the visitors for
291, UP had progressed to 206/3 from 76 overs at stumps.
Three successive half century partnerships in the UP innings put them
firmly on course to overtake Hyderabad's none too imposing
total. Yadav and Mohammed Saif put on 69 for the first wicket before
Saif was trapped in front of the wicket by Vanka Pratap for 18. Yadav
then added exactly fifty for the second wicket with Kaif before
Kanwaljit Singh dismissed him for 61 (127 balls, 9 fours). And then
Kaif and Rizwan Shamshad continued the good work with a workmanlike 59
run partnership for the third wicket. At stumps captain Gyanendra
Pandey (18) was holding the fort along with Kaif. The latter was
unbeaten on a stolid 66 off 169 balls, that included three boundaries.
Earlier Hyderabad added another 45 runs to their overnight tally of
246 /8 before they folded up for 291 thirteen overs into the day. VVS
Laxman was ninth out for 128 (263 balls, 13 fours and a six), castled
by Ashish Zaidi with the score at 268. NP Singh and Kanwaljit Singh
then put on a further 23 for the last wicket before Zaidi bowled NP
Singh for good measure to finish with figures of 3/70.