Delhi on verge of securing outright win over TN

CHENNAI, December 27: Former champions Delhi are on the verge of scoring an outright win over Tamil Nadu as they are 95 runs short with ten wickets in the Group-A Ranji Trophy Super league cricket match on Thursday.
Playing to their pre-match strategy of gaining the vital first innings lead and then go for a win (possibly with bonus point), Delhi have been successful thanks mainly to a superb bowling effort by leg break bowler, Chetanya Nanda, who bagged five victims and fine performance by wicket keeper R.Bisht who took four catches.
Delhi can also score a win with bonus point, if its opening batsmen, Akash Chopra (2) and Gautham Gambhir (6) make the required 95 runs without losing their wicket.
A Delhi win with a bonus point will help them total 24 points to be in line for a semifinal berth.
Delhi made 338 in reply to Tamilnadu's first innings score of 268 and then skittled out the hosts for 174 in their second essay.
Needing 105 for win with a day to spare, Delhi made ten without loss at close.
Delhi dismissed five Tamilnadu batsmen for 22 runs in 19.5 overs this morning. Rajat Bhatia, P.Awana, Sangwan and Nanda (two) were the bowlers.
With Tamil Nadu at 61/6, Ramkumar (57) and wicket keeper batsman Gopinath (37) batted carefully, putting on 82 runs in 18.4 overs. Nanda then got into the act to dismiss Gopinath, Ramkumar and Suresh while Awana scalped Yeo Mahesh.
For Delhi, medium pacers, Pradeep Jaiveer Sangwan and Parvinder Awana, claimed two wickets each.