Once again, Test discard V V S Laxman came to the rescue of Hyderabad with his valuable knock of 84 which came in 201 minutes off 150 balls with 10 boundaries.

Electing to bat, Hyderabad made two changes in their side that played against Delhi, by bringing in Daniel Manohar and R Sridhar in place of Arvind Shetty and Vishnuvardhan, while Madhya Pradesh was without the services of their ace bowler Narendra Hirwani, who was advised rest due to a back injury.

The hosts lost their opener Daniel Manohar (9) who was caught by Rajesh Chauhan at short-mid wicket off J P Yadav with the side total of 21.

Nanda Kishore (23) joined opener Laxman (84) and they were struggling to get runs as MP skipper Chandrakant Pandit with his vast experience kept a close fielding totrap Laxman. But Nanda Kishore was the next to go and was caught by wicket keeper C P Sahu off Manish Majithia at 23. His second wicket partnership with Laxman yielded 56 runs off 102 balls. Laxman was caught at mid-wicket by Santosh Sahu off Lahore.

Scoreboard

Hyderabad (1st innings): Daniel Manohar c Chauhan b Yadav 9, V V S Laxman c Sahu b Lahore 84, Nanda Kishore c Sahu b Majithia 23, M V Sridhar b HS Sodhi 29, Vanka Pratap c Abbas Ali b Majithia 32, D Vinay Kumar c A Ali b Lahore 12, Youraj Singh batting 14, R Sridhar batting 30; Extras (lb2, w1, nb1): 4. Total (for six wickets): 237.

Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-56, 3-141, 4-160, 5-187, 6-197.

Bowling: H S Sodhi 11-2-32-1, Chauhan 25-2-75-0, Yadav 12-3-36-1, Lahore 16-3-38-2, Majithia 30-5-45-2, Bundela 1-0-9-0.