Joginder Sharma records hat-trick against AP

Rohtak, Nov 25 (UNI) The newly built Ch Bansilal Cricket Stadium witnessed the first hat-trick in first class cricket today when Joginder Sharma came up with a magnificient seven-wicket haul to bowl out Andhra Pradesh for 168 in their second innings of the Ranji Trophy match against Haryana.

Chasing a victory target of 242, Haryana were 92 for three in their second essay and the hosts require another 150 runs to win the match with seven wickets in hand.

The day clearly belonged to Joginder who had the Andhra batsmen running for covers.

After he ran through the top order, removing four frontline batsmen, the medium pacer removed three wickets in the last three balls of the 57th over.

He first castled RVC Prasad in the fourth ball of the over, trapped D kalyankrishna in the next delivery and signed off by bowling YL Kishore to complete his hat-trick which also dropped curtains on Andhra's second innings.

Joginder's second innings bowling figures read 22-8-41-7 and he thus completed an 11-wicket haul in the match.

Chasing a victory target of 242, Haryana, however, lost three early wickets -- including opener Sumit Sharma and Sunny Singh -- to reach 92 in 50 overs.

Scoreboard: Andhra Pradesh first innings 202 all out Haryana 1st innings 129 Andhra 2nd innings (Overnight 67 for 3) MSK Prasad lbw b Budhwar 13 LNP Reddy lbw b Joginder 35 ASK Varma c Shafiq Khan b Joginder 3 Y Venugopal Rao c Rawat b Rana 14 M Faiq b Sunny 13 Y Gnaneswara Rao lbw b Joginder 27 AG Pradeep c Rawat b Joginder 24 RVC Prasad b Joginder 20 KS Sahabuddin not out 1 D Kalyankrishna lbw b Joginder 0 YL Kishore b Joginder 0 Extras (B-6, LB-2, W-2, NB-8) 18 Total (All out in 57 overs) 168 Fall of wickets: 1/22 2/25 3/59 4/88 5/88 6/132 7/167 8/168 9/168 Bowling: Joginder Sharma 22-8-41-7 S Budhwar 17-2-56-1 S Rana 8-1-18-1 Sunny Singh 5-1-24-1 A Mishra 5-0-21-0 Haryana 2nd innings Sumit Sharma lbw b Kalyankrishna 28 Sunny Singh c MSK Prasad b Sahabuddin 6 D Joon lbw b Venugopal Rao 18 Shafiq Khan not out 29 S Rana not out 7 Extras (LB-2, NB-2) 4 Total (For three wickets in 50 overs) 92 Fall of wickets: 1/11 2/41 3/74 Bowling: KS Sahabuddin 12-6-21-1 D Kalyankrishna 11-4-24-1 RVC Prasad 7-2-15-0 Y Gnaneswara Rao 7-3-12-0 Y Venugopal Rao 12-5-18-1 YL Kishore 1-1-0-0 UNI XC AY PM HS1842