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Anand Vasu06-Oct-2000Resuming on 284/9, the Tamil Nadu Under-25 side managed to post 310 intheir Coca Cola Cup encounter against Hyderabad Under-25 at Bangalore.The second day’s play saw the last Tamil Nadu pair push the score pastthe three hundred run mark before being dismissed. Ghouse Baba with6/100 was the pick of the bowlers, but the fact that he was largelyunsupported by his teammates saw Tamil Nadu post a more than handyscore.Needing 302 to take the first innings lead, Hyderabad openerRadhakrishna was dismissed in just the 9th over of the innings. Comingin at the fall of the first wicket, Anirudh Singh managed to steadythe ship. While he got his eye in, he saw the other opener, AdityaAgarwal (22), being stumped by Raju off the bowling of Ramkumar.Although there was a brief period of consolidation where Anirudh Singhand Sanjay Patel added 41 runs, no one was able to stand up toRamkumar for any length of time. As Ramkumar picked more wickets, theHyderabad innings faltered. Anirudh Singh departed for 57 when he wastrapped LBW by Ramkumar.>From this point on, a vital innings from Ravi Chandra saw Hyderabadsave face in a big way. Refusing to throw away his wicket, RaviChandra played a lone hand in resurrecting his team’s fortunes. On theway to an unbeaten 91 out of a team total of 262, Ravi Chandra enjoyedthe company of as many as five batsmen.Sanjay Patel (46) was the only one to play any sort of supportingrole. Obaidullah, Srinivas Reddy and Ghouse Baba failed to make it todouble figures and were all scalped by Ramkumar.When stumps was called, Hyderabad still needed 40 runs to secure afirst innings lead. With just 2 wickets in hand, they will find itextremely difficult to go the distance. If the first day belonged toGhouse Baba (6/100) then the second belonged to Ramkumar who hadpickings of 6/71. Ravi Chandra, waging a lone battle with an unbeaten91 to his name, holds the key for Hyderabad in what should be aninteresting first session of play on the third and final day of thisencounter.