Hyderabad (India) v Saurashtra - Ranji Trophy - Group A – Live Score and Update
Saurashtra 260/270 v Hyderabad (India) 186/232 - Match drawn
It appears that cricket boards in the subcontinent need to take the matter of flat wickets into some serious consideration because such tracks are not helping in nurturing young talent coming out from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
The domestic matches need to be competitive and result oriented in order to yield the required results, otherwise there is no point in forcing the players to play for four days out in the sun.
The ongoing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kumar-Shri-Ranjitsinhji-c71870 Trophy in India is a perfect case where most of the four-day games ended without a result on Tuesday. This is not helping the sport in anyway, as it would have been better to see the bowlers tempt the batsmen into making mistakes, eventually making it difficult for the batsmen to see off the ball throughout the day in order to escape from defeat.
The match between Hyderabad and Saurashtra at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saurashtra-c839 bowlers failed to bowl-out their opposition.
There was enough time for both sides to go for the kill, but instead, chose to walk the easy path by drawing the match.
If the batting side was not ready to take any risks, it was the job of the fielders and the bowlers to make the batsmen play bad shots in order to grind them and secure a possible victory.
The lack of competitiveness exhibited by both teams, needs to be taken notice of by their respective clubs to avoid such a situation in future.
Saurashtra declared their second innings with 270 on the board, giving their opposition the final day to reach the required target.
However, Hyderabad had a snail-paced start as they reached 49 runs before losing their first wicket with PA Reddy perishing for 19, followed by the wicket of his opening partner DB http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RD-Shah-c2298 Teja for 30.
With two wickets down for 56, the batting side still took a tentative approach and wasted enough time to let the game slip out of their hands as they failed to reach the target and lost six wickets before stumps.
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