Punjab spinners Harbhajan Singh and Sarandeep captured three wickets apiece to chart Tamil Nadu's downfall.

Scoreboard

Punjab (1st innings): 344

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): Anand George lbw Sarandeep 45, S Sriram c Mongia b Harbhajan 20, Hemanth Badani lbw Sandeep 0, S. Sharath c Pankaj b Sarandeep 40, Madan Gopal st Harminder b Sarandeep 28, Sunil Viswanathan lbw Bhushan 18, G Vasu c Bharat b Harbhajan 44, R Paul c Bharat b Harbhajan 8, S Mahesh b Navdeep 42, T Kumaran c Harminder b Bharat 4, P Subbiah not out 6. Extras 6. Total (all out): 261

Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-46, 3-77, 4-134, 5-139, 6-194, 7-205, 8-214, 9-226.

Bowling: Bhushan 29-13-52-2, Sharma 19.3-2-38-1, Harbhajan 30.3-6-92-3,Navdeep 14.1-2-34-1, Sarandeep 21-4-41-3.

Punjab (2nd innings): Vikram Rathour c Badani b Subbiah 7, S Sharma c Madangopal b Sriram 51, P Dharmani (batting) 30, D Mongia (batting) 19.

Extras 2. Total (for two wickets) 109.

Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-76.

Bowling: Kumaran 4-2-11-0, Mahesh 6-0-13-0, Vasu 13-4-22-0, Subbiah 9-1-40-1, Sriram 5-0-23-1.

Kanwaljeet mesmerises

HYDERABAD: Master spinner Kanwaljeet Singh, with a career-best haul of eight wickets, spun out Delhi for a paltry 160 runs in their first innings, in reply to Hyderabad's 440 on the third day of the Ranji quarter-final here today. Kanwaljeet pushed his haul to 40 wickets in the current season, boosting his tally to 236 wickets from 84 Ranji matches. This was his eleventh five-wicket haul.

Surprisingly, Hyderabad did not enfore the follow-on.

Scoreboard

Hyderabad (1st innings): 440

Delhi (1st innings, overnight 69-4): Akash Chopra b Kanwaljeet 32, Ashu Dani lbw Raju 17, Devender Sharma c Nandkishore b Kanwaljeet3, Akash Malhotra c Sridhar b Kanwaljeet 3, Vijay Dahiya c Vinaykumar b Kanwaljeet 10, Pankaj Joshi b Kanwaljeet 44, Sandeep Angorala run out 19, Harinder Choudary c Vishnuvardhan b Kanwaljeet 18, Rahul Sanghvi lbw Kanwaljeet 1, Amit Bhandari not out 4, Ashish Nehra b Kanwaljeet 0. Extras (lb4, nb2): 6. Total (all out in 62.4 overs): 160

Fall of wickets: 1-40, 2-53, 3-59, 4-64, 5-74, 6-100, 7-125, 8-137, 9-160.

Bowling: NP Singh 6-0-17-0, Vishnuvardhan 5-0-21-0, Raju 26-12-29-1, Kanwaljeet 25.4-5-86-8. Hyderabad (2nd innings): Arvind Shetty c Malhotra b Bhandari 4, Nandkishore c Dahiya b Nehra 21, Vinay Kumar c Malhotra b Bhandari 10, Vanka Pratap c Joshi b Bhandari 18, MV Sridhar c Chopra b Sanghvi 16, Yuvraj Singh run out 26, VVS Laxman (batting) 67, Venkatapathi Raju (batting) 11. Extras (b1, lb4, nb8): 13. Total (for six wickets in 59 overs): 187

Fall of wkts: 1-9, 2-37, 3-43, 4-55, 5-95, 6-161

Bowling: Nehra 20-7-57-1, Bhandari 16-3-64-3, Choudary 6-1 23-0, Angorala 9-3-15-0, Sanghvi 8-3-23-1.