Chetnya Nanda remained stranded on 25 as Pradeep Sangwan and Parvinder Awana were fooled by Mohnish Parmar’s off-breaks. The bowler with a Muralitharan-like action ended up with four wickets while Siddharth Trivedi snared three.

Blame it on Bandekar?

Sameer Bandekar has been known to get into the news for the wrong reasons. On Tuesday, two contentious decisions by the Mumbai-based umpire spoilt an interesting battle between bat and ball.

His errors contributed to Delhi falling 36 runs short of Gujarat’s first-innings total. Bandekar first declared Sumit Narhwal lbw despite an inside edge, and Yogesh Nagar was then adjudged caught behind though the ball had just deviated off the wicket. Bandekar later apologised. “I will write a strong letter against Bandekar, he has a special dislike for Delhi. This kind of umpiring has taken away the spirit of the game,” Sunil Dev, the DDCA sports secretary, said here.