Railways running at snail's pace

VN Buch's 4/47 put the skids on Railways as they crawled to 194/5 from 90 overs on the opening day of their Super League clash against Baroda at Delhi's Karnail Singh Stadium today.

After winning the toss on their home ground the Railways batsmen failed to press home the advantage. While Sanjay Bangar, who has come into the selectors' reckoning recently, fell cheaply, the other opener Vishal Sharma stroked his way to 43 off 83 balls. After four wickets had fallen for 86, Y Goud (60 not out) and Devendra Singh (47) added 93 for the 5th wicket. Buch dismissed Devendra to claim his fourth wicket following which S Wankhade (5 not out) and Goud closed shutters for the day.