da luck： Hyderabad are to blame themselves for the over-cautiousness inbatting
Blessington Thomas16-Oct-1999Hyderabad are to blame themselves for the over-cautiousness inbatting. chasing a modest 161 runs in 50 overs at an asking rate of3.22 runs per over.The first four wickets adding 68 runs in 34.1 [205 Balls] overs,after a fairly good start of 53 in 134 balls between the openersRadhakrishna [21] and B Avinash Pai [19]. G Sanjay Patel consumedprecious overs in scoring 3 runs off 32 balls. In all the 2nd, 3rd,4th, 5th and 6th wicket pairs have done very little to force the paceadding a Pathetic 29 runs in 17.5 overs between them.Only skipper Santosh Yadav and Faiz Ahmed showed some semblence ofvictory in the partnership of 69 runs for the 7th wicket in 72 ballswhen the former was finally consumer at deep-mid wicket by SrinivasPrasad of the bowling of Shahabuddin for a gallant [52], SantoshReached to 52 with a huge 6 over long off, pershing the next ball.after Santosh’s departure, Hyderabad needed 12 runs from 7 balls,Venugopala Rao bowling the last over, with Hyderabad needing 11 from 6balls, could not make it in the end as Venugopala Rao scalped lastthree wickets in his last four balls, thus Hyderabad fell short by sixruns, while Andhra winning the encounter by 5 runs in the end.Earlier Andhra put in to bat first scored 160 in 47.3 overs. At thehalf-way mark they were 89 for 5 wickets. After an early loss ofNagini Kumar at 3 in the second over, opener Srinivas and Prasad Reddy[29] repaired the innings with a 38 run partnership for the secondwicket.After being 5-88, middle-order batsman I Srinivas batted through tosee his side posted a fighting total. Srinivas’ occupation of 95minutes at the crease has brought 48 runs to the total in facing 71balls, scoring one 6, and three 4S. For Hyderabad left arm spinbowler in Ramakrishna’s ten overs spell gave him 4 wickets conceding31 runs with one over as maiden.