Tamil Nadu regain Sounderarajan Trophy
With the South Zone Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Hyderabad ending in a tame draw at the Gymkhana ground in Secundarabad on Sunday, Tamil Nadu regained the MD Sounderarajan Trophy, the symbol of supremacy in the zone
10-Jan-2000
With the South Zone Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Hyderabad
ending in a tame draw at the Gymkhana ground in Secundarabad on Sunday,
Tamil Nadu regained the MD Sounderarajan Trophy, the symbol of supremacy
in the zone. Tamil Nadu finished with 31 points. Karnataka and Hyderabad
who both had 24 points at the start of the match, finished with 27 and
29 points respectively. It was the second title triumph in a week for
Tamil Nadu. Only a few days before, they had won the Subbiah Pillai
Trophy for the one day South Zone championship. The triumph also
clinched a place for Tamil Nadu in next year's Wills Trophy tournament
Chasing a difficult target of 356, Karnataka, the reigning Ranji Trophy
champions, were never really in with a chance. But they made sure of
preventing Hyderabad from registering an outright victory that would
have given them the trophy. The top order performed commendably with
openers Arun Kumar (26) and Mithun Beerala (46) putting on 49 runs.
Then Rowland Barrington (64) and skipper Sujith Somasundar (55 not out)
consolidated with a third wicket partnership of 92 runs off 43.4 overs.
Barrington faced 165 balls and hit three of them to the ropes. NP Singh
dismissed Barrington and A Vijay in the same over but Somasundar and
VST Naidu (31 not out) steered Karnataka to a comfortable draw with
an unbeaten fifth wicket partnership of 53 from 8.1 overs. Somasundar
faced 153 balls and hit seven of them to the fence. Naidu's bright
knock was compiled off just 29 balls and he hit seven fours. Karnataka
were 239 for four when stumps were finally drawn.