da luck： Kerala had the better of the exchanges in their drawn Ranji TrophySouth Zone clash against Andhra at Vijayawada
da brdice： Sankhya Krishnan04-Nov-2000Kerala had the better of the exchanges in their drawn Ranji TrophySouth Zone clash against Andhra at Vijayawada. A 217 run first inningslead was enough for Kerala to log five points and restrict theiropponenst to three. On the final day today, Kerala declared afterfacing just four balls. In that time their overnight score of 453/7moved up to 461 but more significantly M Suresh Kumar completed hismaiden first class century off 125 balls, with 7 fours and 4 sixes.Ajay Kudua the other unconquered batsman closed at 158 (242 balls, 21fours, 1 six). Andhra’s Madhukar and Watekar toiled hard for theirthree wickets each.Skipper Amit Pathak then followed up his first innings 58 with acentury as Andhra batted out the day to close at 228/3 in 82 overs.Pathak and LNP Reddy (43) added 105 for the opening wicket after whichnew kid on the block Y Gnaneswara Rao, all of 16 years old, who’dfallen for a second ball nought in the first innings salvaged hisdebut with an unbeaten 56. Pathak fell for 101 (177 balls, 13 fours, 1six) and Venugopala Rao had a second failure inflicted on him soonafter but it was all purely academic.
