Day 1 Report

After losing an early wicket at 11, Hyderabad prospered with a century partnership for the second wicket and were looking good at 132 for 1. After the fall of the second wicket of Nanda Kishore at 132, the hosts lost wickets at regular intervals. First to go was opener Arvind Shetty, who was out at 140. A 29 run stand (Shivaji Yadav and Youraj Singh) helped them to reach 200 mark at the close play.

Arvind Shetty and Nanda Kishore added 121 runs for the second wicket in 214mts and 47.5 overs.

Day 2 Report

Hyderabad lost two wickets in the third over of the day's play when Sandeep Sharma induced Youraj Singh to play onto his stumps and followed it up by bowling Vishnuvardhan first ball. He was on the verge of a hat-trick, but the last man Kanwaljit Singh had other ideas. He not only denied Sandeep Sharma a hat-tric, but went on to add 51 runs for the last wicket with Narenderpal Singh. Kanwaljit's innings had a 6 off Bharat Bhushan over the backward point and 3 fours off Sandeep Sharma.

Punjab's skipper Vikram Rathour was out at 99 when he tried to hoist Raju over mid-on only to find Kanwaljit Singh taking the catch. At close Punjab were 25 runs away with 5 wickets in hand for the vital first innings lead. Harminder Jugnu is batting in an unbroken 6th wicket stand of 31 runs, have scored all of the runs.

Day 3 Report

An unbeaten 104 runs partnership between Nanda Kishore and Vinay Kumar put Hyderabad 109 in front with 8 wickets in hand. Hyderabad must look forward to score quick runs tommorrow to force an outright win.

Earlier Harminder Jugnu's cavalier (90) took Punjab past Hyderabad's 260 to take first innings points. Jagnu added 100 runs while at the wicket with four partners of which his contribution being 90 runs, while four other batsmen contributed 8 and 2 runs accruing from extras, such was the dominance of the diminutive wicket-keeper batsman from Punjab.

Day 4: Hyderabad post a dramatic victory

What looked a certain Punjab victory until the 25th over of their second innings, turned to defeat. Requiring 177 in a minimum of 56 overs, Punjab were cruising nicely with former India opening batsmen Rathour (35) and Sidhu (57) giving Punjab a dream start of 88 runs in a mere 17 overs.

Once these two were separated by the veteran off-spinner Kanwaljit Singh, the flood gates opened. From 109 for 1 in the 25th over, Punjab nose-dived to 152 all out. In 26.4 overs Punjab lost 9 wickets adding a mere 43 runs.