da dobrowin： Andhra batsmen frittered away good starts as the visitors lost theirway while pursuing Gujarat’s first-innings score of 499
Staff Reporter27-Jan-2002Andhra batsmen frittered away good starts as the visitors lost theirway while pursuing Gujarat’s first-innings score of 499. When stumpswere drawn at the end of the third day’s play at the Sardar PatelStadium, Motera, Ahmedabad, Andhra were 251 for six. Former Indiawicketkeeper MSK Prasad, batting on 33, and the late-order batsmenwere left with the herculean task of adding another 249 runs to securethe first-innings lead that would help Andhra continue their fairytalerun this season.In the morning, Mohammad Faiq, who made 71, was the only Andhrabatsman to notch up a fifty. GN Shrinivas (34) and Y Venugopal Rao(37) might have been among the runs but they could not convert it intoa innings of substance. Just when Andhra seeemed down and out, thePrasads – MSK and RVC – put together a 63-run partnership to givetheir team a glimmer of hope. RVC on 29 was keeping MSK company whenstumps were drawn. For Gujarat, Kalpesh Patel returned figures of fivefor 48 off 25 overs.