On whether he was under pressure coming into this game
There is no doubt I was under pressure coming into this game. Thatpressure had nothing to do with being made the vice-captain. Afterall, I am only the deputy, and I am not even sure if a captain isunder pressure because he is leading the side. There was pressurebecause I didn’t bat well or catch and field well in the first Test. Ijust decided to go out with a positive outlook. I wanted to enjoymyself out in the middle, and so I courted success today – as simpleas that.On being backed by his team
That’s what pleased and touched me no end. Everyone in the team backedme, and a day before the Test here, Inzamam sat me down and had a longchat. I appreciate everything the team did for me, and in return, Iwanted to make sure that I did not let them down. That I have managedto repay them for the faith they showed in me is my most importantachievement today.On whether he has made any technical changes from Mohali tonow
A little bit, nothing too much. I am the same Younis who played thefirst Test. A lot of people have said in the past that I bat veryslowly, but I have always played positively. In this innings, I wantedto bat out the whole day, wanted to spend time in the middle, and atthe end of the day, that helped.On running singles with Youhana
Yousuf and I are not like Sehwag or Afridi who can blast the bowlersaround. We look for singles all the time. Afridi got us off to a greatstart today, and we kept looking for singles even if we played goodballs in the gap, so the run-rate was up right through. We just madesure we carried on from where Afridi’s short knock put us.On whether Pakistan are on top
It’s a little too early for that. We have had only two days’ play, andeverything will depend on how things go tomorrow. If we can bat outthe whole day and snatch a lead of between 150 and 200, we willdefinitely be well placed. At the moment, though, it is 50-50.

A 19-strong squad will attend South Africa’s National Academy, the tenth since it’s inception in 1995, at the High Performance Centre at Pretoria University. There was no intake last year because of the restructuring of the domestic scene in South Africa.The squad includes the best young talent from around the country, many of whom have yet to play franchise cricket. However, JP Duminy, who has already played five ODI’s for South Africa, is one of the batsmen selected, after a successful domestic season for Western Province Boland, where he averaged 67 in first-class cricket. Duminy, 20, is regarded as one of South Africa’s brightest batting talents, and represented South Africa A against England during the winter.The lack of quality spin bowlers currently playing domestic cricket in the franchises is highlighted with the selection of five young spinners. Tyron Pillay is a promising legspinner, while Thandi Tshabalala, an offspinner, recently bowled 68 overs in the SuperSport series final – although he failed to take a wicket.Anton Ferreira, the Cricket South Africa manager of coaching, said: "We are very excited about this intake, and we feel we have a group of players who have the potential to go right to the top of the game. In identifying them the selection panel took into account the potential needs of the national team, hence the inclusion of five spinners. We also feel that a player like JP Duminy who has already had a taste of international cricket will gain leadership and mentoring skills while also developing as a cricketer at the academy."Squad Kyle Smith (KwaZulu Natal), Jaco Booysen (Easterns), Francois du Plessis (Nashua Titans), JP Duminy (WP/Boland), Miles Williamson (Western Province), Ugashen Govender (KwaZulu Natal), Morne Morkel (Titans), Frans Nkuna (Northerns), Lonwabo Tsotsobe (Eastern Province), Mario Olivier (Boland) Brendon Adams (Boland), Thandi Tshabalala (Eagles), Aaron Phangiso (Northerns), Tyron Pillay (Dolphins), Waylain September (Boland), Vernon Philander (WP/Boland), Jandre Coetzee (Griqualand West), Daryn Smit (KwaZulu Natal), Ryan Canning (Western Province)

Shane Bond and Jacob Oram will test their recovering bodies when they play for the New Zealand Academy in Cricket Australia’s emerging players tournament in Brisbane in July. Bond, who began his comeback towards the end of last season, and Oram are both returning from serious back problems and will be joined in the squad by Michael Papps, the batsman hit twice in an over by Brett Lee bouncers during an ODI in February.Dayle Hadlee, the team manager, said the outfit was selected as New Zealand prepared to install their short- and long-term succession plans. “There is an exciting blend of experience and youth within the team,” he said. Derek De Boorder and Te Ahu Davis, who are 19, and the 18-year-old Todd Astle will combine with a squad of regular first-class players.Hadlee said the focus of the tournament would be the one-day and Twenty20 matches with teams from the Australian Institute of Sport and an Indian Academy. A three-day match will conclude the series.New Zealand Academy Jacob Oram (capt), Graham Aldridge, Todd Astle, Shane Bond, Te Ahu Davis, Derek De Boorder, Peter Fulton, Bruce Martin, Michael Papps, Jeetan Patel, Jesse Ryder, Hayden Shaw, Ross Taylor.

Sourav Ganguly has expressed the hope that his stint with Glamorgan will fetch him as much success as his previous tours to England with the Indian team. Ganguly, who has been signed up by the county to play for them at least till the end of July, will play his first match today (June 1) against Sussex at Swansea.”I’m really looking forward to this opportunity of playing for Glamorgan,” Ganguly said. “I’ve done well in this country before, in Tests and one-day internationals, and I didn’t have too bad a time with Lancashire either. We finished as runners-up in the County Championship and I did well in their one-day matches.”Ganguly has an excellent record in England – in six Tests he averages 74 with the bat and 31.50 with the ball, while in 20 one-day internationals there he averages 39.25, only marginally below his career average. However, his stint with Lancashire in 2000 wasn’t quite so impressive – in 14 first-class matches he only managed an average of 31.95, with no centuries.Ganguly has also been struggling for runs over the last year, but Robert Croft, the Glamorgan captain, had no doubt that Ganguly would be an inspiration to the rest of the team. “Sourav’s a special cricketer, everyone knows what he can do at the highest level. He’ll score a lot of runs and will also pass on his experience to the youngsters coming through.” Ganguly is expected to bat at No.5 in the four-day games and open the batting in the one-dayers.Glamorgan have had a wretched start to the season, losing all five Division One matches so far, but Ganguly was keen to help stop the slide. “It will be a challenge after a poor start, but I’m very happy to be part of a young team,” Ganguly told BBC Sport Wales. “There’ll be a lot of expectation, but I’ve been around for 10 years, I’m an established international cricketer and I have to put the performances on the board.”He also revealed that the call-up by the county had come as a surprise to him. “I was in England for a family holiday and was going to go to Paris for the French Open, but when this chance came I said I’d love to do it,” he said. “I only had a tourist visa and had to fly to Brussels to sort out a working one, and now I’m in Wales for the first time.”I have played against a few of the guys like David Hemp, Alex Wharf and Robert Croft and it’s just great to have the chance to play in this country again.”

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The Roses match continued to be a closely fought occasion as both sides enjoyed moments of supremacy on the second day. Phil Jaques was the star of the day, striking an imperious 97 from 118 balls, with all his runs coming in the morning session, but he edged to Dominic Cork at second slip shortly after the interval. Lancashire had struck two early blows, with Matthew Wood being freakishly run out, via a rebound off Iain Sutcliffe at silly mid-off, as Wood backed-up too far at the non-strikers end. Glen Chapple had Anthony McGrath taken at second slip before Jaques and Lumb added 83 for the third wicket. Lumb’s 68 was his first half-century of a lean season but Lancashire continued to work away at the Yorkshire batting order. However, Craig White remained unbeaten at the close and he will be vital on the third day as Yorkshire aim to get as close to Lancashire’s 379 as possible.
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Ben Smith struck a fluent century as Worcestershire made a strong reply to Somerset’s 408 at Bath. He built on some solid work from Stephen Moore and Graeme Hick who put on 105 for the second wicket, after Steven Davies had edged Andrew Caddick to Graeme Smith slip early on. Hick also fell to Caddick, for 55, and Moore was out 14 short of his century but Smith was already into his stride. Zander de Bruyn offered valuable support with 30 and Gareth Batty guided Worcestershire to the close with Smith. However, Batty will not be able to resume his innings in the morning as he will have joined up with England’s one-day squad. Worcestershire will be allowed a full-playing substitute. Matthew Wood, earlier, guided Somerset to a full hand of batting points in the morning session, as he was last-man out for 127.1st day
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Durham made the most of batting first to set up a strong position in their top-of-the-table clash against Essex at Chester-le-Street. Gordon Muchall hit 123 and Dale Benkenstein, the stand-in captain while Mike Hussey is with the Australian’s, was unbeaten on 91 at the close. They added 167 for the fourth wicket, then Gareth Breese weighed in with 60 to further boost the Durham total. Essex had managed to make some early inroads into the Durham batting, with Dale Steyn removing John Lewis and Andre Adams getting the better of Nicky Peng. However, their attack has been weakened by injury and international call-ups – Darren Gough (England), Alex Tudor and Graham Napier were missing – and the support bowling couldn’t maintain the pressure. Mervyn Westfield, a 17-year-old fast-medium bowler, had a particularly tough debut as his 13 overs cost 67, while Nick Thornicroft, on loan from Yorkshire, failed to make an impression.

South Africa 193 for 3 in 45.5 overs (Dippenaar 74) beat Pakistan 192 in 49.3 overs (Abdul Razzaq 38, Pollock 3-33) by seven wickets, and won the series 3-2
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South Africa completed a remarkable turnaround in this one-day series, winning the fifth and final match at Rawalpindi by seven wickets to come back from 0-2 down to take the series 3-2. Their heroes were Boeta Dippenaar, who anchored the innings with an accomplished 74, and Mark Boucher, the stand-in captain, who had an inspired time in his first ODI in charge. He had to step up to lead in the absence of Graeme Smith, who like Andrew Hall was banned from this match for misdemeanours back in the second game at Lahore.South Africa looked likely winners from early on, when Andre Nel made two important early breakthroughs. Shaun Pollock finished with the best figures, but Nel and Robin Peterson, the inexperienced slow left-armer, both took two important wickets as well.The return of Inzamam-ul-Haq after a leg injury did little to help Pakistan, who have underperformed after those two early victories. Batsman after batsman prodded and jabbed … and perished. None of the top-order batsmen was capable of playing the sheet-anchor role that was badly needed.To add to Pakistan’s woes, Boucher had a plan for every batsman, plus some inspired bowling changes and field-placings. And when South Africa batted, Dippenaar showed the Pakistanis how to go about building an innings, and with help from Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis he ensured that the victory was completed without much ado.South Africa took control as early as the second over of the day, when Mohammad Hafeez’s miserable run continued. His middle stump was uprooted by Nel, and when Yousuf Youhana was lbw to Pollock, it was 16 for 2. Pollock, who was economical throughout these five matches, and Nel – whose intensity was contagious – never let up on the discipline and were pivotal in the context of the series triumph.Younis Khan joined Yasir Hameed, and though both tried in vain to unsettle the bowlers by standing outside their crease with a middle-stump guard, the scoreboard ticked over only slowly. Then Boucher pulled the first rabbit out of his cap. In the 10th over, bowled by Nel, Boucher moved Kallis from second slip to short midwicket. The next ball was well pitched up and homing in on leg stump, and Hameed obligingly chipped it straight to Kallis (35 for 3).Inzamam was struggling with his leg injury, and his notoriously suspect running was further hindered. Boucher encouraged his team to shy at Inzamam’s end whenever they could, and it paid off when Jacques Rudolph threw down the stumps with a direct hit from mid-on. And finally, when Younis and Shoaib Malik were playing the seamers comfortably, Boucher quickly brought on Peterson. He duly obliged with two quick wickets, with generous assistance from the batsmen. Malik holed out to Nel, while Younis played back to one that kept very low.With Rashid Latif nudging intelligently in partnership with Abdul Razzaq, who played some lavish drives on both sides of the wicket in his 38, a spot of late-order carnage seemed on the cards. But Boucher didn’t let things drift and brought back Makhaya Ntini, who responded by persuading Razzaq to edge a catch behind (152 for 7). Latif, who nurdled 25, received some useful support from the tail and managed to lift the total from meagre to remotely defendable.If Pakistan were to win they needed early wickets, and Shoaib Akhtar nearly obliged during a fiery opening spell. But Dippenaar and Herschelle Gibbs managed to keep him out, and also kept the score ticking over at four an over. Akhtar’s first over nearly did the trick: first a huge appeal for leg-before against Dippenaar was turned down, then he completely missed a yorker-length ball that fizzed past the off stump. Dippenaar played and missed a couple of times in Akhtar’s next over, but with Mohammad Sami getting his length all wrong, he grew in confidence and slowly unveiled some neat cuts and pulls.Dippenaar was ably supported, first by Gibbs and then by Kallis. They eased the pressure by collecting the odd boundary to raise the rate. Danish Kaneria, the legspinner, bowled an impressive spell in which he turned the ball appreciably, and his awkward bounce unsettling the batsmen. He was rewarded with the wicket of Gibbs, who danced down the track, missed, and was stumped by a distance (75 for 1). But then Kallis and Dippenaar added 93 at a steady rate, and apart from one stray yorker that nearly castled Kallis, and a wayward chip that sailed between two fielders, both were very assured and picked off the singles easily.Sami came back in the 39th over, with 25 needed, and caused a minor ripple. He bowled Kallis with one that kept low, and finally trapped Dippenaar leg-before. His matchwinning 74 occupied 125 balls, and contained five fours. But Rudolph and Neil McKenzie survived some edgy moments to guide South Africa to a 3-2 series win with 25 balls to spare – a final outcome that seemed almost impossible after those two defeats in Lahore at the start of the series.

Ricky Ponting will join the Test squad in India and is hopeful of being fit for the fourth Test after X-rays confirmed that his injured thumb is healing well.Dr Trefor James, the medical adviser for Cricket Australia, said that Ponting’s broken thumb, which he injured in the Champions Trophy, has shown significant improvement since an examination last week. “His grip is a lot stronger than what it was, and while he will fall a few days short of being right for the third Test, we are hopeful that he will be fit for the final Test of the series.”Ponting said he was encouraged by the latest diagnosis. “Obviously I’m not certain to play, but I have a lot more strength and movement in my hand, and I’m certainly hopeful to be right for Mumbai,” he said. “I should be OK to start hitting balls by the end of this week, and will continue to work on it when I join the squad later this week.”Ponting said he was looking forward to rejoining the team in India as soon as possible. Australia are currently 1-0 up in the four-match series. The third Test will be played at Nagpur from October 26, while the fourth one Test starts at Mumbai on November 3.

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How they were outIf yesterday at Edgbaston had been Test cricket at its very best, then today’s hopelessly one-sided farce was it at its worst – that it was even labelled as Test cricket was bordering on the ridiculous. It has to be assumed that the Trade Descriptions Act doesn’t apply in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe have had many wretched days on the international stage in the last year or so, but at Harare Sports Club today, they plumbed a depth that was spectacular even by their rapidly declining standards.They were bowled out by New Zealand twice inside a day, only the second side to suffer such a fate. The other were India at Manchester in 1952, but they were caught cold on a miserable and damp Old Trafford track which suited England’s bowlers. Zimbabwe had no such excuses. They were at home, and the conditions were not that one-sided.New Zealand did what they had to efficiently and clinically, but few of Zimbabwe’s batsmen troubled them and, more worryingly, few looked to be remotely good enough technically to survive at this level. New Zealand barely broke sweat, not that they had to.After declaring overnight, New Zealand unleashed Shane Bond and James Franklin. Bond showed impressive pace from his first ball, which rose and flew off Neil Ferreira’s gloves over the keeper’s head to the boundary. The die was cast.In the fourth over, Franklin had Ferreira caught at the wicket and he then trapped Dion Ebrahim and only a no-ball stood between him and a hat-trick as he had Hamilton Masakadza plumb leg before. Both batsmen’s footwork was questionable and both prodded half-forward. Next over Craig Wishart unwisely shouldered arms to a ball from Bond that cut back viciously off the pitch, and at 11 for 4 the innings was in shreds.Chris Martin also found movement to take three wickets in the middle order, with Stuart Carlisle (20 not out) standing alone as the tail collapsed around him; his was a fine but utterly futile rearguard. Daniel Vettori picked up the last two wickets immediately after lunch – his first-day hundred and six wickets in the match won him the Man-of-the-Match award. Zimbabwe’s only solace was that they just about passed their previous low – 54 against South Africa in March.Second time round, they started with a little more fight, although Brendan Taylor soon drove uppishly and was caught at short extra cover without scoring. That he was playing at all was a sign of Zimbabwe’s desperation. A month or so ago he was slapped with a six-month ban for disciplinary offences. But the cupboard is so bare that he was quickly forgiven and brought back.His was virtually the only attacking stroke to be played in the first 10 overs, as Ferreira and Ebrahim played with great application, but as they ventured out of their shells, the wickets again started to tumble.After tea Ferreira (16) seemed to lose his nerve, and played a couple of uncharacteristically risky strokes before he dabbed feebly outside the off stump at a ball from Franklin and provided Stephen Fleming with the first of three successive catches. The others were Wishart (5) and Carlisle (0), both softened up by short balls from Bond and then driving loosely outside off stump.What resistance there was was provided by Masakadza (42), who drove and pulled in impressive fashion, the only Zimbabwe batsman in the match to take the attack to the bowlers with any success. He had scored half the total of 84 when he tried to chip a drive on the leg side and had a leading edge well caught overhead by Vettori off his own bowling.As New Zealand closed for the kill, they got a stroke of luck as Vettori took his 200th Test wicket in dubious circumstances, Heath Streak adjudged leg before by Darrell Hair despite a thick inside-edge apparent to all but the umpire.

Tatenda Taibu hung around before being caught by Fleming and the last wickets fell without a whimper. Chris Mpofu set up his own Test record by being twice stumped for a pair inside two sessions. That summed up the wretchedness of Zimbabwe’s efforts.It is hard to see where Zimbabwe go from here. For the first time in 16 months they fielded their full-strength side, and yet the defeat was as one-sided as any they have suffered in that period. Their bowling lacked penetration and their batting at times would have embarrassed a good club side.In such hard times, world cricket has to be seen to support Zimbabwe. But there is an argument, which few who witnessed today would counter, that the time has come for a change of tack and a rethink about what is being achieved by ploughing on regardless. Nobody benefited from this massacre, and the pitiful attendance showed that even the locals have tired of such wretched fare. This was a match of interest to nobody but the statisticians.

ZimbabweNeil Ferreira c McCullum b Franklin 5 (9 for 1)
Dion Ebrahim lbw b Franklin 0 (9 for 2)
Hamilton Masakadza lbw b Franklin 0 (10 for 3)
Craig Wishart b Bond 0 (11 for 4)
Brendan Taylor run out (Styris) 10 (28 for 5)
Tatenda Taibu lbw b Martin 5 (46 for 6)
Heath Streak c McCullum b Martin 0 (46 for 7)
Blessing Mahwire lbw b Martin 4 (51 for 8)
Graeme Cremer c Martin b Vettori 1 (53 for 9)
Chris Mpofu st McCullum b Vettori 0 (59 all out)
Zimbabwe second inningsBrendan Taylor c Vettori b Franklin 0 (5 for 1)
Dion Ebrahim b Martin 8 (14 for 2)
Neil Ferreira c Fleming b Franklin 16 (53 for 3)
Craig Wishart c Fleming b Bond 5 (76 for 4)
Stuart Carlisle c Fleming b Bond 0 (80 for 5)

Hamilton Masakadza c and b Vettori 42 (84 for 6)

Heath Streak lbw b Vettori 3 (90 for 7)
Tatenda Taibu c Fleming b Martin 4 (90 for 8)
Graeme Cremer c James Marshall b Vettori 3 (99 for 9)
Christopher Mpofu st McCullum b Vettori 0 (99 all out)

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Ajit Agarkar demonstrated that despite his modest success at international level, he is still a force to be reckoned with on the domestic circuit. His 5 for 96 at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi restricted Railways to 284, giving Mumbai a first-innings lead of 77. At close of play on the third day, Mumbai were 3 for 0.Karnataka faced an uphill run-chase on the final day against Bengal. After conceding a lead of 136, Karnataka pulled things back somewhat, dismissing Bengal for just 206 in the second innings – thanks primarily to Sunil Joshi, who was given the new ball and returned figures of 5 for 62, nailing, among others, Sourav Ganguly for 5 – but that still left them with a daunting target of 343. They closed on 41 for 1, requiring 302 more on the last day to pull off an improbable win.At Chennai, Tamil Nadu moved into an invincible position, taking a first-innings lead of 298 against Hyderabad. Sivaramakrishnan Vidyut and Sridharan Sharath led the charge with hundreds, while Subramaniam Badrinath, Sridharan Sriram and Hemang Badani all chipped in with half-centuries. Batting again to stave off a possible innings defeat, Hyderabad began brightly, closing the third day on 63 for 0.Delhi were on their way to a win in their first match of the season. After closing their first innings on 430 for 8 – a lead of 216 – they reduced Gujarat to 205 for 5 in the second innings, with Ashish Nehra and Sarandeep Singh taking a couple of wickets each. Parthiv Patel was one of Sarandeep’s victims – he scored 30 before being snapped up by Gautam Gambhir. Gujarat were still trailing by 11, and with an entire day’s play left at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, Delhi had an excellent opportunity to wrap up Gujarat’s innings and seal a win.Pankaj Dharmani’s 125 allowed Punjab to wrest a first-innings lead of 39 against Uttar Pradesh at Mohali, but UP made a spirited reply, reaching 206 for 2 at stumps. Jyoti Yadav and R Prakash, their opener, added 114 for the first wicket. UP then lost a couple of quick wickets, including that of Mohammad Kaif for just 12, but Yadav continued the charge with an unbeaten 82.Meanwhile, Venugopal Rao was the star for Andhra Pradesh again, this time with the ball. After scoring 140 in Andhra’s first innings, Rao took 4 for 53 to help dismiss Madhya Pradesh for 287. Batting a second time, Andhra started off impressively, scoring 74 for 0, an overall lead of 148.At Guwahati, Jacob Martin’s 126 was the highlight of the day as Baroda posted 347 in reply to Assam’s 273. Though none of the other Baroda batsmen managed even a half-century, most of them chipped in handily to ensure a lead of 74. Assam wiped off 71 of those runs by close of play on the third day, losing opener Parag Das in the process.

Delhi survived by the barest of margins at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, drawing the game with only their last pair standing. They had to chase 157 in 30 overs, but messed it up in the pursuit of runs. It was a surprising turnaround for Gujarat, who trailed Delhi by 216 when they began their second innings. At the end of the third day, they were 205 for 5, still nine runs behind, but today the overnight batsmen, Kirat Damani and Bhavik Thaker, remained unbeaten till the team was 68 runs ahead.Damani scored 86, with eight fours, Thaker was last man out for 95, with 12 fours, and Gujarat had managed to post a healthy total of 372. Soon after, Delhi were in trouble. They were 37 for 2 within six overs, and though they continued to score quickly, they just kept losing wickets. The eighth fell for 90, with eight overs still remaining. Mithun Manhas was out just before the day ended, but Rahul Sanghvi and Amit Bhandari did not fall, giving Delhi the unlikeliest of escapes.Murtaza Lodhgar played a big role for the second time in Karnataka’s 116-run loss to Bengal with another five-wicket haul at the Jadavpur University Campus in Kolkata. Karnataka fell for 226, well short of the target of 343. Sujith Somasunder top-scored with 46, and was followed by Stuart Binny (42) and Vijay Bhardawaj (40). Lodhgar ended with innings figures of 5 for 89, and a match haul of 11 for 117. It was a match keenly watched because Sourav Ganguly’s form had been questioned since the start of the series against Australia; he managed 32 runs in two innings.Tamil Nadu won by an innings and 108 runs against a hapless Hyderabad side that failed to go past 190 in either innings. Ramakrishnan Ramkumar did the damage, claiming 6 for 71 to go with his first-innings six-wicket haul. It gave him match figures of 12 for 128 at the Chidambaram stadium. Hyderabad scored 190, with Daniel Manohar the top-scorer. Tamil Nadu claimed a bonus point for the innings victory, in addition to the regular four for a standard win.The game between Mumbai and Railways petered out to a dull draw after Mumbai sat tight on their first-innings lead, and scored only 219 runs in 86 overs at the Karnail Singh stadium in Delhi. Vinayak Mane remained unbeaten on 111, an effort that consumed nearly six hours, and Vinit Indulkar scored 52. Mumbai reached 221 for 3, and took away two points for the lead.Jyoti Yadav scored 103 to set up a competitive declaration by Uttar Pradesh, who scored 317 for 8, but Punjab preferred to play it safe and not mount a challenge on the target of 279. They ended at 164 for 5, with Yuvraj Singh unbeaten on 41. Reetinder Singh Sodhi brought an end to UP’s innings, claiming 4 for 39 in nine overs.Andhra played at a snail’s pace, drawing their game with Madhya Pradesh. They took away two points for their first innings lead. Venugopal Rao, unbeaten on 60, and Reddy, who scored 56, played patient knocks at the Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground in Indore. They reached 195 for 3 when stumps were called and the game was drawn. For four days, runs came at the trickle of 2.57 runs an over.Assam continued to pile on the runs on the last day of their game against Baroda, and had two century-makers as the match was drawn. They made their way to 360 for 4 at the Nehru Stadium, with Zuffri (106) and Saravanan (102 not out) running up patient hundreds. However, Baroda were awarded the points for their lead in the first innings.