Five points for Andhra against Karnataka

G Shankara Rao, with a bag of five wickets for 39 runs, was instrumental in Andhra gaining five points as their three day South Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match against Karnataka at Visakhapatnam ended in a draw on Friday.

Resuming at 83 for three in reply to Andhra's first innings score of 394, Karnataka were all out for 202. About the only resistance was provided by C Raghu (36) and Stuart Binny (67) who added 60 runs for the fifth wicket off 20.3 overs. But once the obdurate Raghu was run out for 36 after having batted for 218 minutes, facing 177 balls and hitting just one boundary, there was precious little substance left in the batting. Binny kept one end going till he too was run out at 193, the seventh batsman to be dismissed. He faced 130 balls and hit eight fours. But most of the other batsmen came to grief against Shankara Rao who finished with the excellent figures of 32.2-17-39-5.

Following on 192 runs behind, Karnataka were 64 for two when the match ended. Karnataka salvaged three points from the game.