Ranji Trophy | Tamil Nadu cruises to seven-wicket win over Goa
The Hindu
Debutant and opener S. Lokeshwar struck his maiden fifty (52, 129b, 6x4) and Pradosh Ranjan Paul followed up his first-innings 71 with another fine fifty (65, 125b, 6x4) as Tamil Nadu, chasing 137, cruised to a seven-wicket win over Goa
Debutant and opener S. Lokeshwar struck his maiden fifty (52, 129b, 6x4) and Pradosh Ranjan Paul followed up his first-innings 71 with another fine fifty (65, 125b, 6x4) as Tamil Nadu, chasing 137, cruised to a seven-wicket win over Goa on day four of the elite Group-C match in the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy at the Goa Cricket Association (GCA) Academy ground in Porvorim on February 5.
This is Tamil Nadu’s third consecutive win and it retains the top spot in Group-C with 21 points and superior run quotient over Karnataka (21).
Vijay Shankar hit the winning shot, a six off the medium-pace of Suyash Prabhudessai over the long off boundary.
Earlier, Lokeshwar was dropped on his overnight score of 34 by Manthan Khutkar at silly point off left-arm spinner Darshan Misal on the second ball of the day. Misal later had him leg before.
The diminutive opener remarkably scooped off-spinner Mohit Redkar to the fine leg boundary.
Pradosh hit three consecutive fours off medium-pacer Deepraj Gaonkar. He charged and lofted the ball to the cow corner boundary, ramped it to the fine leg boundary, and flicked off his pads to the square boundary.
He edged his drive to be caught by Misal at first slip off Prabhudessai.
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