da realbet： Karnataka emerged winners of the P Ramachandra Rao Trophy for theSouth Zone under-22 title on Thursday
Natarajan Sriram28-Dec-2000Karnataka emerged winners of the P Ramachandra Rao Trophy for theSouth Zone under-22 title on Thursday. The three points they got fromtheir rain affected match against Tamil Nadu at Pondicherry was enoughfor them to edge out Hyderabad on run quotient. Both Karnataka andHyderabad finished on 24 points. But Karnataka on a better runquotient took the trophy.The Pondicherry game ended in a tame draw as play was called off at1.30 pm on the third and final day.Put in to bat, Karnataka in their first innings scored 271 thanks to afine 105 by opener KS Ponnappa. He shared a 98-run second wicket standwith Barrington Rowland (45). Thereafter a 61-run fourth wicketpartnership ensued between Ponnappa and AR Mahesh (37). VasanthSaravanan was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 5 for 59.The second day witnessed only 25 overs. After Karnataka were all outin the morning, Tamil Nadu mustered 49 for no loss at the end of play.On the final day, only 16 overs were bowled. Tamil Nadu had scored 116with the openers S Badrinath (67) and Rajat Bhatia (39) remainedunbeaten till the end.