Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Antony Sebastian	c †Rawat b Bangar	52	134	196	9	0	38.80
Raiphi Gomez	c Sanyal b Saxena	13	15	33	2	0	86.66
Sony Cheruvathur (c)	c †Rawat b Harvinder Singh	26	84	109	6	0	30.95
Sreekumar Nair	c Sanyal b Bangar	44	179	216	5	0	24.58
Rohan Prem	b Kartik	28	88	106	2	0	31.81
VA Jagadeesh	c Pagnis b Kartik	17	36	30	1	1	47.22
Padmanabhan Prasanth	b Harvinder Singh	17	32	39	3	0	53.12
Vinan Nair †	c Pagnis b Saxena	70	60	90	14	1	116.66
Tinu Yohannan	c †Rawat b Harvinder Singh	4	17	23	0	0	23.52
Sadanandan Anish	not out	55	69	93	7	2	79.71
Prasanth Chandran	c †Rawat b Bangar	8	32	43	0	0	25.00
Extras	(b 2, lb 5, nb 11, w 5)	23
Total	122.3 Ov (RR: 2.91, 497 Mins)	357
Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Raiphi Gomez, 7.1 ov), 2-92 (Sony Cheruvathur, 32.5 ov), 3-107 (Antony Sebastian, 44.2 ov), 4-161 (Rohan Prem, 73.4 ov), 5-184 (VA Jagadeesh, 83.4 ov), 6-207 (Sreekumar Nair, 90.6 ov), 7-222 (Padmanabhan Prasanth, 94.2 ov), 8-240 (Tinu Yohannan, 100.2 ov), 9-303 (Vinan Nair, 110.3 ov), 10-357 (Prasanth Chandran, 122.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Harvinder Singh	27	7	99	3	3.66	127	16	0	0	7
32.5 to SK Cheruvathur, . 92/2 94.2 to P Prasanth, . 222/7 100.2 to T Yohannan, . 240/8
Santosh Saxena	18	8	43	2	2.38	93	7	1	1	0
7.1 to RV Gomez, . 31/1 110.3 to VG Nair, . 303/9
Sanjay Bangar	29.3	12	60	3	2.03	151	9	0	3	0
44.2 to MA Sebastian, . 107/3 90.6 to SR Nair, . 207/6
Sanjib Sanyal	8	2	35	0	4.37	39	8	0	1	0
Murali Kartik	32	11	81	2	2.53	155	6	2	0	4
73.4 to PR Prem, . 161/4 83.4 to VA Jagadeesh, . 184/5
Karn Sharma	4	1	15	0	3.75	18	3	0	0	0
HD Rawle	4	0	17	0	4.25	16	0	1	0	0

Railways 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Siddharth Joshi	lbw b Chandran	9	16	25	1	0	56.25
Amit Pagnis	c Gomez b Chandran	2	13	17	0	0	15.38
Sanjay Bangar (c)	lbw b Anish	13	41	64	2	0	31.70
HD Rawle	b Anish	66	205	271	11	0	32.19
Sanjib Sanyal	lbw b Cheruvathur	115	300	366	17	0	38.33
Mahesh Rawat †	c & b Yohannan	77	145	222	12	0	53.10
Karn Sharma	c & b Yohannan	10	34	39	1	0	29.41
Raja Ali	lbw b Yohannan	31	117	165	6	0	26.49
Murali Kartik	c Cheruvathur b SR Nair	39	116	184	3	0	33.62
Harvinder Singh	c Prasanth b Anish	10	29	37	1	0	34.48
Santosh Saxena	not out	1	12	10	0	0	8.33
Extras	(b 10, lb 15, nb 3, w 1)	29
Total	170.5 Ov (RR: 2.35, 708 Mins)	402
Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Amit Pagnis, 3.4 ov), 2-20 (Siddharth Joshi, 5.2 ov), 3-41 (Sanjay Bangar, 19.5 ov), 4-160 (HD Rawle, 73.6 ov), 5-276 (Sanjib Sanyal, 112.2 ov), 6-303 (Karn Sharma, 121.5 ov), 7-310 (Mahesh Rawat, 129.2 ov), 8-373 (Raja Ali, 158.6 ov), 9-401 (Harvinder Singh, 167.2 ov), 10-402 (Murali Kartik, 170.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Tinu Yohannan	37	11	87	3	2.35	180	15	0	1	1
129.2 to M Rawat, . 310/7 158.6 to Raja Ali, . 373/8 158.6 to Raja Ali, . 373/8
Prasanth Chandran	29	8	60	2	2.06	140	7	0	0	0
3.4 to AA Pagnis, . 17/1 5.2 to Siddharth Joshi, . 20/2
Sony Cheruvathur	36	9	88	1	2.44	177	11	0	0	2
112.2 to S Sanyal, . 276/5
Raiphi Gomez	8	2	20	0	2.50	38	3	0	0	0
Sadanandan Anish	37	12	67	3	1.81	182	10	0	0	0
19.5 to SB Bangar, . 41/3 73.6 to HD Rawle, . 160/4 167.2 to Harvinder Singh, . 401/9
Padmanabhan Prasanth	12	2	37	0	3.08	56	6	0	0	0
Sreekumar Nair	10.5	5	13	1	1.20	59	2	0	0	0
170.5 to M Kartik, . 402/10
Antony Sebastian	1	0	5	0	5.00	4	1	0	0	0

Kerala 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Raiphi Gomez	st †Rawat b Bangar	101	124	172	10	3	81.45
Antony Sebastian	b Bangar	70	157	241	5	0	44.58
Sreekumar Nair	c & b Kartik	24	28	38	1	0	85.71
Vinan Nair †	c sub (KS Parida) b Bangar	1	5	4	0	0	20.00
VA Jagadeesh	not out	52	66	89	5	1	78.78
Rohan Prem	lbw b Kartik	2	9	11	0	0	22.22
Sony Cheruvathur (c)	b Bangar	1	2	4	0	0	50.00
Padmanabhan Prasanth	lbw b Bangar	2	7	6	0	0	28.57
Sadanandan Anish	c †Rawat b Kartik	4	10	10	0	0	40.00
Tinu Yohannan	run out (Pagnis)	7	9	6	1	0	77.77
Prasanth Chandran	not out	13	16	21	0	0	81.25
Extras	(lb 5, nb 7, w 1)	13
Total	71 Ov (RR: 4.08, 309 Mins)	290/9d
Fall of wickets: 1-165 (Raiphi Gomez, 36.4 ov), 2-198 (Sreekumar Nair, 47.1 ov), 3-201 (Vinan Nair, 48.4 ov), 4-223 (Antony Sebastian, 54.5 ov), 5-238 (Rohan Prem, 57.4 ov), 6-243 (Sony Cheruvathur, 58.6 ov), 7-249 (Padmanabhan Prasanth, 60.5 ov), 8-255 (Sadanandan Anish, 63.2 ov), 9-262 (Tinu Yohannan, 65.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Harvinder Singh	5	0	48	0	9.60	18	6	1	0	5
Sanjay Bangar	30	2	118	5	3.93	107	9	2	0	0
36.4 to RV Gomez, . 165/1 48.4 to VG Nair, . 201/3 54.5 to MA Sebastian, . 223/4 58.6 to SK Cheruvathur, . 243/6 60.5 to P Prasanth, . 249/7
Murali Kartik	24	3	70	3	2.91	94	2	0	0	1
47.1 to SR Nair, . 198/2 57.4 to PR Prem, . 238/5 63.2 to S Anish, . 255/8
Santosh Saxena	8	1	30	0	3.75	34	5	0	1	0
Sanjib Sanyal	4	0	19	0	4.75	12	0	1	0	0

Railways 2nd Innings (T: 246 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Siddharth Joshi	not out	41	176	244	6	0	23.29
Amit Pagnis	c & b Cheruvathur	23	65	80	3	0	35.38
Sanjay Bangar (c)	c †VG Nair b Cheruvathur	0	5	7	0	0	0.00
HD Rawle	not out	59	140	151	9	0	42.14
Extras	(lb 2, nb 3)	5
Total	64 Ov (RR: 2.00, 244 Mins)	128/2
Did not bat: Sanjib Sanyal, Mahesh Rawat †, Karn Sharma, Raja Ali, Murali Kartik, Harvinder Singh, Santosh Saxena
Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Amit Pagnis, 19.6 ov), 2-34 (Sanjay Bangar, 21.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Tinu Yohannan	7	1	13	0	1.85	35	1	0	0	1
Prasanth Chandran	6	1	21	0	3.50	28	4	0	0	0
Sony Cheruvathur	11	5	16	2	1.45	58	2	0	0	1
19.6 to AA Pagnis, . 34/1 21.5 to SB Bangar, . 34/2
Sadanandan Anish	16	8	30	0	1.87	82	5	0	0	0
Sreekumar Nair	13	5	26	0	2.00	65	3	0	0	0
Padmanabhan Prasanth	8	6	8	0	1.00	46	2	0	0	0
Rohan Prem	2	0	10	0	5.00	8	1	0	0	0
VA Jagadeesh	1	0	2	0	2.00	5	0	0	0	0

Close of Play

Tue, 25 Dec - day 1 - Kerala 1st innings 207/6 (Padmanabhan Prasanth 12*, 91 ov)

Wed, 26 Dec - day 2 - Railways 1st innings 123/3 (HD Rawle 44*, Sanjib Sanyal 40*, 56 ov)

Thu, 27 Dec - day 3 - Railways 1st innings 348/7 (Raja Ali 22*, Murali Kartik 7*, 146 ov)

Fri, 28 Dec - day 4 - Kerala 2nd innings 249/7 (VA Jagadeesh 36*, 60.5 ov)

Sat, 29 Dec - day 5 - Railways 2nd innings 128/2 (64 ov) - end of match

Match Details

Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Toss	Railways, elected to field first
Series	Ranji Trophy Plate League
Season	2007/08
Series result	Railways advanced
Hours of play (local time)	09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days	25,26,27,28,29 December 2007 - day (5-day match)
Umpires	Sudhir Asnani Suhas Phadkar
Match Referee	Anand Patel

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Railways Innings

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
T Yohannan	7	1	13	0	1.85 (1 nb)
P Chandran	6	1	21	0	3.5
SK Cheruvathur	11	5	16	2	1.45 (1 nb)
S Anish	16	8	30	0	1.87
SR Nair	13	5	26	0	2
P Prasanth	8	6	8	0	1
PR Prem	2	0	10	0	5
VA Jagadeesh	1	0	2	0	2

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