Kudua, Suresh Kumar make merry on rain-hit day
On a rain-curtailed third day of this Ranji Trophy South Zone tie between Andhra and Kerala at Vijayawada, the visitors quickly gained the first innings lead and proceeded to 453/7 from 133.1 overs before play was halted after lunch
Sankhya Krishnan
03-Nov-2000
On a rain-curtailed third day of this Ranji Trophy South Zone tie
between Andhra and Kerala at Vijayawada, the visitors quickly gained
the first innings lead and proceeded to 453/7 from 133.1 overs before
play was halted after lunch. The high watermark of the day was an
unbeaten century by Ajay Kudua and his unbroken 196 run eighth wicket
partnership with Suresh Kumar.
Resuming at 239/5, Kerala surpassed Andhra's total of 244 in the
second over of the day. Andhra seamer N Madhukar raised hopes of a
figtback by having skipper KN Ananthapadmanabhan and V Kamaruddin
snaffled by wicketkeeper LNP Reddy off successive balls to reduce
Kerala to 257/7. From then on 24 year old Kudua and southpaw Suresh
Kumar frustrated Andhra's designs with a belligerent stand.
Kudua had progressed to 153 (240 balls, 20 fours, 1 six) while Suresh
Kumar was on 98, gathered off just 123 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes,
when play was interrupted for the day at 13.39 hours.