After being bowled out for a paltry 179 in their first innings, Andhra Pradesh on Saturday hit back skittling out Orissa for 140 on the second day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Elite group B match at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack.
H Vatekar of Andhra claimed five wickets for 32. The Andhra spinner, who was introduced as a part-time bowler by captain M S K Prasad, sliced through the Orissa middle order. In their second essay, Andhra were 67 for two establishing an overall lead of 106 runs with eight wickets still intact when stumps were drawn for the day. MSK Prasad and ASK Verma were batting at 15 and 20 runs respectively at stumps after H Vatekar (19) and LNP Reddy (6) got out early.
The hosts, who resumed at their overnight score of 21 without loss, were unable to withstand the opposition attack from the beginning and were in dire straits. Orissa opener B S Pati failed to read a delivery of Y Ganeswara Rao and caught plumb with addition of only one run to his overnight score of five with the team scoreboard reading 23. Batsmen fell like a pack of cards and except former skipper Niranjan Behera (31) and wicket keeper Haldhar Das (30) no other player were able to build a partnership.
Former India opener S S Das (22) faced 97 and hit three boundaries before being the second batsman to get out at the team score of 41.
Andhra Pradesh 1st innings: 179
Orissa 1st innings: (overnight) 21 for no loss
B Pati lbw Y G Rao 6
SS Das c A G Pradeep b Vijay Kumar 22
N Behera lbw B H Vatekar 31
S Biswal c D K Krishna b G S Rao 12
P Mallick c A S K Verma B H Vatekar 11
P Jayachandra c A S K Verma b H Vatekar 3
R Das c P Vijay Kumar b H Vatekar 8
H Das st M S K Prasad b H Vatekar 30
D Mohanty c H Vatekar b M Suresh 5
S Khatua lbw b Y G Rao 0
P Das not out 1
Extras: (b 10 nb 1) 11
Total : (all out in 76.4 overs) 140
Fall of Wickets: 1-23, 2-41, 3-62, 4-83, 5-90, 6-93, 7-100, 8-118, 9-131
Bowling: D Kalyan Krishna 5-1-12-0, P Vijay Kumar 9-4-14-1, G Shankara Rao 16-12-15-1, Md Faiq 13-3-19-0, Y Ganeswar Rao 8-3-15-2, M Suresh 11-5-22-1, H Vatekar 12.4-3-32-5, L N P Reddy 2-1-1-0
Andhra (2nd innings):
H Watekar b Preetamjit Das 19
L Reddy c H Das b Jayachandra 6
ASK Varma not out 20
MSK Prasad not out 15
Extras: (b 1, lb 5, nb 1) 7
Total: (2 wickets; 21 overs) 67
Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-31
Bowling: D Mohanty 5-2-17-0, P Das 5-2-6-1, P Jayachandra 6-1-16-1, P Mullick 2-0-14-0, N Behera 2-0-6-0, S Khatua 1-0-2-0
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