PUNE, Feb 23: Maharashtra were 35 for one after dismissing out Orissa for 245 in the Ranji Trophy Super League, here, today. Skipper Surendra Bhave he crossed the 6000 runs in the National Championship gamble of using his bowlers in short spells paid off with medium-pacer Milind Kulkarni picking four wickets. Sachin Nair finished with 3-65.Orissa: SS Das c Bhave b Nair 4, P Jayachandran b Siddiqui 17, P Mullick c Kondalkar b Kulkarni 38, Sanjay Raul c Khondalkar b Godbole 45 (91m, 56b, 3x4), RR Parida c Kondalkar b Kulkarni 9, Pradeep Das c Kondalkar b Kulkarni 21, Prashant Mahapatra lbw Nair 43 (107m, 72b, 2x4), Gautam Gopal b Nair 4, Debashis Mohanty c Sugwekar b Kulkarni 8, Saheed Khan not out 35 (33m, 32b, 6x4 1x6), Ajay Barik run out 0. Extras: (b 1, lb 6, w 2, nb 12): 21. Total (all out in 70.5 overs) 245
Fall of wickets : 1-5, 2-67, 3-67, 4-80, 5-134, 6-184, 7-195, 8-207 9-231
Bowling: Nair 17-3-65-3, Kulkarni 21.5-7-44-4, Siddiqui 18-4-78-1, Godbole 6-2-22-1, Godbole 7-1-29-0
Maharashtra:Surendra Bhave batting 14, Niranjan Godbole c Gopal b Mohanty 15, Iqbal Siddiqui batting 0. Extras: (lb 2, nb 4): 6. Total (for one wicket in 18 overs): 35.
Fall of wicket: 1-34.
Bowling: Mohanty 8-4-14-1, Barik 5-1-10-0, Jayachandran 2-0-3-0, Khan 3-1-6-0
TN rock Railways
Chennai: Inspired bowling by medium-pacers D Devanand and T Kumaran had Railways reeling at 26 for five. But Tamil Nadu allowed the tail to wag before bundling out the visitors for a paltry 154 in a Group B Super League match here today. In reply, Tamil Nadu were 115-1 at close.
Railways: Zufri Zakaria c Singh b Devanand 10, Sanjay Bangar c Madanagopal b Devanand 5, Abhay Sharma c Badani b Kumaran 1, Yere Goud b Kumaran 2, Prahlad Rawat c Arasu b Singh 22, Devender Singh c Kumaran b Devanand 0, Saket Bhatia b Mahesh 14, Karthik Murali c Arasu b Vasu 29, Zakir Hussein b Kumaran 19, Kulamani Parida c Arasu b Vasu 22, Zabed Zaman (not out) 10. Extras (b 8, lb 2, nb 10): 20. Total (in 50.1 overs): 154.
Fall of wickets: 1-15,2-16, 3-16, 4-18, 5-26, 6-60, 7-63, 8-110 9-137
Bowling: Devanand 12-2-25-3, Kumaran 13-2-35-3, Mahesh 14-1-43-1, Singh 7-0-29-1, Vasu 4.1-0-12-2.
Tamil Nadu: Anand George batting 45, RC Vasant Kumaar lbw Murali 29, Hemang Badani batting 20. Extras (lb 1, w 1, nb 19): 21. Total (for one wicket in 40 overs): 115.
Fall of wickets: 1-63.
Bowling: Hussein 6-0-14-0, Zaman 8-1-31-0, Bangar 7-2-20-0, Bhatia 3-0-13-0, Murali 9-4-17-1, Parida 7-2-19-0.
Arun slams 151
Bangalore: Rising on opener Arun Kumar's quickfire 151, Karnataka were 315 for four on the opening day of their Super League match against Saurashtra.Karnataka: S Somasundar c Merchant b Garbondia 3, Arun Kumar c Manoj b Yusuf 151, F Khaleel c Tanna b Chawda 6, Vijay R Bharadwaj batting 48, Tilak c Manoj b Chawda 0, A Vijay batting 97. Extras (lb 2, nb 6, w 2): 10. Total (for four wickets in 90 overs): 315.
Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-49, 3-253, 4-254
Bowling: Garbondia 18-6-40-1, Rana 8.5-1-58-0, Chawda 14-1-67-2, Parsana 20-3-66-0,Bambhaniya 21.1-4-55-1, Kotak 8-0-27-0.
Parinder slams ton
Ranchi: An unbeaten century by opener Parinder Sharma and his 175-run stand with Amarjeet Kaypee (80) helped Haryana post a strong 252 for four wickets on the first day of their Super League match against Bihar today.Haryana: Jeetinder Singh b D Kumar 5, Parinder Sharma batting 123, Shafiq Khan c Ali b D Kumar 0, Amarjeet Kaypee c & b V Kumar 80, Rajesh Puri c S Kumar b Rao 25, Sanjay Dalal batting 1. Extras ( b3, lb 10, nb 5): 18. Total (for 4 wickets): 252.
Fall of wickets: 1-5 2-5 3-180 4-238.
Bowling: Panda 14-2-45-0, D Kumar 14-3-35-2, V Kumar 34-7-84-1, Rao 27-7-57-1, Arfi 3-0-18-0
Kapoor scores 106
Jaipur: An unbeaten 106 by Aashish Kapoor and good supporting knocks by Manish Singh (73), Gagan Khoda (56) and PK Kumar (batting 43) enabled Rajastan end the opening day's play against Vadodara on 316 for three.Rajasthan: Manish Singh c Kadri b Murlerkar 73, Gagan Khoda c & b Sivramakrishnan 56, Rahul Kanwat c Himanshu bSivramakrishnan 33, Aashish Kapoor batting 106, PK Kumar batting 43. Extras (b 1, lb , nb 3): 5. Total (for three wickets): 316
Fall of wickets: 1-88, 2-136, 3-195
Bowling: Tandon 8-1-38-0, Kadri 8-1-42-0, Murlerkar 12-1-43-1, Swaroop 23-4-61-0, Sivramakrishnan 18-3-60-2, Arothe 21-0-67-0
Hyderabad struggle
Calcutta: Bengal left Hyderabad struggling at 182 for eight at close on the opening day of the Group A match today.
Only MV Sridhar stood defiantly, scoring an unbeaten 84 (185b, 255m, 12x4).Hyderbad: A Shetty c Kalyani b Chatterjee 15, D Manohar b Das 34, A Nandakishore c Gandhi b Banerjee 13 MV Sridhar batting 84, V Pratap c Ahmed b Das 12, D Vinay Kumar c Dasgupta b Chatterjee 0, Y Singh c Kalyani b Banerjee 4, V Raju c Gandhi b Singh 7, NP Singh c Chatterjee b Banerjee 0. Extras (b 4, lb 6, w 1, nb 2): 13. Total (for eight wickets in 90.2 overs): 182.
Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-60, 3-73, 4-93, 5-96, 6-133, 7-179, 8-182
Bowling: Banerjee 15.2-3-35-3, Bose 14-3-34-0, Chatterjee36-17-45-2, Singh 11-3-18-1, Das 11-3-29-2, Gavaskar 2-0-10-0, Gandhi 1-0-1-0.
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