da betway： Medium pacers T.Kumaran and Harvinder Singh Sodhi skittled outKarnataka for just 91 runs in their second innings to bowl Rest of India to victory by an innings and 60 runs with more than a day to spare in the annual Irani Trophy fixture at the
Partab Ramchand04-Oct-1999Medium pacers T.Kumaran and Harvinder Singh Sodhi skittled outKarnataka for just 91 runs in their second innings to bowl Rest of India to victory by an innings and 60 runs with more than a day to spare in the annual Irani Trophy fixture at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Monday.Rest of India, with Sitanshu Kotak hitting a fine century, were in commandat stumps on the third day. Few however would have thought that theRest of India would wrap up the game so quickly and by an innings. Butwith home team’s generally reliable batting crumbling before theseam bowling of Kumaran and Sodhi, the match, expected to be a keencontest, was over in double quick time.Rest of India who resumed at 298 for six, were dismissed for 321 withJavagal Srinath in tremendous form. The 30-year-old spearhead ofthe Indian attack brought the innings to a swift end with a spell of6.3-3-9-4. His first victim this morning was Kotak who was out legbefore for 118. Kotak had put on 112 runs for the seventh wicket with HS Sodhi. The next to go was KN Ananthapadmanabhan whom Srinathbowled for 10 with the total on 316. In his next over, Srinath hadSodhi leg before for 55. And in his following over, Srinath ended the innings by having Kumaran caught by Somasundar with Nilesh Kulkarniremaining unbeaten on nought. Srinath finished with 6 for 77 andRest of India on Monday morning added just 23 runs off 13.4 overs.Karnataka’s joy at keeping the Rest of India lead down to 151 howeverwas short lived. Their second innings was a disaster from start tofinish and lasted only 33.5 overs. HS Sodhi started the rot by havingArun Kumar caught by Badani in his second over. Somasundar and A.Vijay, coming together for the second wicket, added 32 runs off 12.2 overs and the stage seemed set for a Karnataka fightback. However Somasundar was caught by skipper Mongia off Sodhi for 14 and this set off acollapse. In his next over, Sodhi had Naidu caught by Das for one. In the following over, Kumaran got into the wicket taking act with Vijay edging him to Mongia for 15.Suddenly Karnataka were 42 for four and facing the prospect of aninnings defeat. The procession had begun and at 49, in the same over, Kumaran dismissed Sriram and Yalvigi. Shiraguppi was out to Sodhi in the next over and then in the following over, Kumaran dismissed Kumble who gave Mongia his third catch of the innings. In his next overKumaran dismissed Ganesh and Karnataka were gasping for breath at60 for nine in the 26th over.Srinath then indulged in some big hitting and with last man Anand Katti added 31 runs off 8.3 overs. Finally Kumaran had Srinath leg before for 27 made off 45 balls with the help of four hits to the ropes. He wasthe top scorer in an innings which had only two other batsmen to cross double digits in Somasundar and Vijay. Sodhi finished with 4 for 41 off 16 overs while Kumaran had six for 39 off 14.5 overs. Having bagged four for 47 in the first innings, the Tamil Nadu medium pacerfinished with match figures of 10 for 86 – the first bowler to get ten wickets on his Irani Trophy debut.