Fearless: Tanmay and Tilak had no qualms in going after the Nagaland bowling.
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Opener Tanmay Agarwal cracked his thirteenth Ranji century (164, 192b, 12×4, 3×6) and captain Tilak Varma notched up his third ton (101, 15b, 6×4, 5×6) of the season to assist Hyderabad submit a difficult 383 for 5 in opposition to Nagaland on the primary day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Group semifinal at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium right here on Friday.
Electing to bat, Hyderabad’s in-form opener G. Rahul Singh (5) was crushed in flight by off-spinner Tahmeed Rahman to be bowled within the fourth over of the innings.
But, that pleasure proved to be short-lived as Okay. Rohit Rayudu joined the free-stroking Tanmay and the 2 placed on 143 runs for the second wicket.
Rohit Rayudu appeared to be in a rush, smashing three sixes very early in his innings however did not get going once more after wanting good for an enormous knock, sweeping left-arm spinner Lemtur Imliwati to backward short-leg fielder within the thirty seventh over. In reality, Rayudu couldn’t thrive on a dropped likelihood when he was on 58 by wicketkeeper Sumit Kumar of pacer Jaganath Srinivas.
Then, Tilak obtained fortunate to be dropped on one with Jaganath failing to latch on to a skier after a badly executed lofted shot by the batter.
To the dismay of his teammates, the bowler ran proper in entrance of the mid-off fielder and dropped the catch ultimately regardless of a diving effort. And, that proved pricey because the India star quickly showcased along with his trade-mark strokes — the backfoot punches by way of the off-side being the choose of them.
Not surprisingly, each Tanmay and Tilak accomplished centuries and because it had turn out to be the function this season, there have been no celebrations by the batters on crossing the three-figure mark.
There was some aid to Nagaland camp when each the well-set batters fell to catches within the deep once they tried to speed up the scoring charge.
The scores:
Hyderabad – 1st innings: Tanmay Agarwal c Joshua b Jonathan 164, G. Rahul Singh b Tahmeed 5, Okay. Rohit Rayudu c Jaganath b Imliwati 59, Tilak Varma c (sub) Nagaho b Khrievitso 101, Okay. Nitesh Reddy batting 21, T. Ravi Teja b Jonathan 15, Pragnay Reddy batting 12. Extras: (b-6) 6; Total: (for 5 wkts in 90 overs) 383.
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-157, 3-312, 4-335, 5-362.
Nagaland bowling: Tewatiya 12-4-34-0, Tahmeed 12-1-75-1, Jaganath 11-3-18-0, Jonathan 22-1-88-2, Khrievitso 14-0-71-1, Imliwati 19-0-91-1.
