Bowling trio of Shimon Luiz, G Pawan and Abhishek Reddy picked three wickets apiece as Karnataka steamrolled Tamil Nadu by an innings and 48 runs in the KSCA inter-state south zone under-13 tournament at the IAF ground on Sunday.
On the third and final day, Tamil Nadu, resuming from their overnight 66/3, were bowled out for 226 as Luiz (3-43) took his match tally to eight wickets and was complemented well by Pawan (3-21) and Reddy (3-47).
M Adithyan stood tall among the ruins with a patient ton (101) studded with 14 hits to the fence, while N Jagadeesh (51) too fought hard to lend some respectability to visitors’ second innings total.
In another match, Surendra Babu scored an unltra-aggressive 68 off just 44 balls as Andhra earned a creditable draw against arch-rivals Hyderabad.
Brief scores:
Goa: 362 all out in 105.4 overs bt Kerala: 185 all out in 56.5 overs and 86 all out in 36.2 overs (VP Iqlas 26, Nikish Panjikar 2-21, Shivam Marshekar 5-23, Vipul Desh Prabhu 2-11)
Karnataka: 409 all out in 111 overs bt Tamil Nadu: 135 all out in 37 overs and 226 all out in 95 overs (M Adithyan 101, N Jagadeesan 51, J Kaushik 25, Shimon Luiz F 3-43, G Pawan 3-21, Abhishek Reddy 3-47).
Hyderabad: 379/6 in 98 overs and 271/9 decl. in 63 overs (Vishal Judi Phillips 32, Tanmay Agarwal 26, Rahul Singh 38, Manish 82 , B Anirudh 32, D Nareen Reddy 2-66, Tejeshwar 2-36, Saleem Baig 4-63] drew with Andhra: 342 all out in 81.3 overs and 146/3 in 23.2 overs (Surendra Babu 68, Jayawardhane 52).
