Overnight batsmen depart as India Blue take charge

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Tea India Red 107 for 4 (Gurkeerat 48*, Binny 10*, Pankaj 2-20) trail India Blue 693 for 6 dec (Pujara 256*, Jackson 134, Gambhir 94) by 586 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details

Whether it was because of the daunting nature of the task ahead or because of the bowlers’ probing lines on a sticky surface, there was a distinct air of unease about Shikhar Dhawan and Yuvraj Singh when India Red resumed their innings on the third day of the Duleep Trophy final. Both batsmen played some lovely drives, but in between there were a series of tentative, speculative pokes, played more with hope than with conviction. Ultimately, both overnight batsmen fell playing adventurous shots to enable India Blue to tighten their stranglehold on an increasingly one-sided final.

Offspinner Parvez Rasool was the most penetrative of the bowlers, his stock delivery turning away from the left-handers with the odd one holding its …

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