Railways fight back against Hyderabad

Railways, after being at the receiving end, fought back to have their Ranji Trophy Super League group B match against Hyderabad evenly poised at the end of the second day at the Feroz Shah Kotla grounds on Sunday. Replying to Hyderabad's first innings total of 347, Railways were 188 for six at close of play.

Hyderabad, 309 for eight overnight, were all out this morning following a last wicket stand of 36 runs off 15 overs between JS Yadav (23 not out) and Kanwaljit Singh (16). Balaji Rao took one more wicket to finish with a five wicket haul conceding 56 runs.

Railways started disastrously, losing three wickets for 26. A short while later, despite a fourth wicket stand of 51 runs between Vishal Sharma (29) and Sudhir Wankhede (25) they had slumped to 77 for five. Medium pacer NP Singh took three of the wickets. However skipper P Rawat (35) and Devendra Singh (69 not out) were concerned in a rescue act by adding 105 runs for the sixth wicket off 40.3 overs. Rawat played defiantly for 2-1/2 hours, faced 109 balls and hit four boundaries. By close, the gallant Devendra Singh had faced 141 balls and hit nine fours.