Resuming at 67 overnight, Laxman made mincemeat of Delhi bowlers, scoring 193 (339m, 243b, 22x4). Laxman, who scored 219 against Baroda in the previous encounter, has 530 runs from three consecutive innings. He became the third Hyderabad batsman, after M Azharuddin and MV Sridhar, to score a century in both innings of a match. Today's century was Laxman's tenth in Ranji Trophy, following his110 in the first innings.

Scoreboard

Hyderabad (1st innings): 440

Delhi (1st innings): 160

Hyderabad (2nd innings, overnight 187-6): Arvind Shetty c Malhotra b Bhandari 4, Nandakishore 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, Youraj Singh run out 26, VVS Laxman b Sanghvi 193,Venkapathy Raju run out 44, Narender Pal Singh c Sharma b Sanghvi 39, Vishnuvardhan (not out) 9. Extras (b1, lb4, nb19): 24. Total (for 9 decl in 112.3 overs): 404

Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-37, 3-43, 4-55, 5-95, 6-161, 7-259, 8-347, 9-404.

Bowling: Nehra 21-7-62-1, Bhandari 24-3-111-3, Choudhary 16-3-38-0, Angoorala 12-3-78-0, Sanghvi 30.3-7-79-3, Chopra 5-1-19-0, Joshi 3-0-10-0, Dani 1-0-2-0.

Delhi (2nd innings): Akash Chopra c Youraj b Vishnuvardhan 0, Ashu Dani c NP Singh b Kanwaljit 47, Pankaj Joshi (batting) 39, Akash Malhotra c Youraj b Raju 1, Vijay Dahiya (batting) 23. Extras (b4, lb4, nb3, wb1): 12. Total (for 3 wickets in 34 overs): 122

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-76, 3-81.

Bowling: Vishnuvardhan 7-1-26-1, NP Singh 5-1-21-0, Pratap 2-1-9-0, Raju 9-3-29-1, Kanwaljit 8-0-20-1, Shetty 2-0-9-0.

Dinesh Mongia slams ton

AMRITSAR: Left-hander Dinesh Mongia's impressive unbeaten knock of 160 further strengthened Punjab's position on the penultimate day of the Ranji quarter-final match againstTamil Nadu here today.

Resuming at 109 fortwo, the hosts, with a vital 83 runs first innings lead behind them, ended the day at 411 for the loss of seven wickets. Mongia batted through out the day (423m, 2x6, 14x4).

Scoreboard

Punjab (1st innings): 344

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 261

Punjab (2nd innings): Vikram Rathour c Badani b Subbiah 7, Sandeep Sharma c Madangopal b Sriram 51, Pankaj Dharmani c Kumaran b Subbiah 49, Dinesh Mongia batting 160, Amit Sharma c Mahesh b Badani 45, Harminder Jugnu lbw Mahesh 50, Sarandeep Singh c Madangopal b Kumaran 3, Harbhajan Singh b Kumaran 13, Navdeep Singh batting 18. Extras 15. Total (for seven wickets): 411.

Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-76, 3-153, 4-258, 5-337, 6-340, 7-363

Bowling: Kumaran 16-1-33-2, Mahesh 15-2-68-1, Vasu 29-6-57-0, Subbiah 31-4-110-2, Sriram 14-2-51-1, Sharath 4-1-18-0, Madangopal 2-0-9-0, Badani 16-3-57-1.