Tamil Nadu gained two points on the basis of the first innings lead over Delhi in their last round-robin league Elite Group 'A' Ranji Trophy match in Chennai on Friday.

Tamil Nadu ended the league with 11 points as against Delhi's six.

It was a creditable show by Delhi as they came back into the match after being reduced to 85 for 3, in reply to the hosts' first innings score of 481 for 6 declared, before being all out for 414.

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Rajat Bhatia's heroic 185 saved the blushes for Delhi. His 418-minute stay at the wicket contained 21 hits to the fence and three sixes. He also shared an 82-run partnership with Amit Bhandari for the ninth wicket. Bhatia was caught at long off by Ashish Kapoor off Ramkumar.

Delhi needed 250 runs from 39 overs to win after Tamil Nadu captain Badrinath declared their second innings at 182 for 6.

Though Shikhar Dhawan made a valiant effort with Mithun Minhas, Delhi could muster 117 runs for the loss of opener Akash Chopra's wicket (16, 4x4s) in 32 overs, before the match was called off in the eighth mandatory over.

Earlier, Badrinath scored 82 runs off as many balls in Tamil Nadu's second innings. S Sharath was unbeaten on 46.

Scorecard

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 481

Delhi (1st innings):
Akash Chopra c D.Karthik b Vignesh 1
Shikar Dhawan b A.Kapoor 16
Mayang Thilan lbw A.Kapoor 25
Mithun Minhas b A.Kapoor 89
Aditya Jain c A.Kapoor b Jesuraj 8
Rajat Bhatia c A.Kapoor b R.Ramkumar 185
Varun Kumar run out 1
Kuldeep Rawat c D.Karthik b Jesuraj 2
Chetanya Nanda b Ramkumar 24
Amit Bhandari st.D.Karthik b S.Sriram 20
Yogesh Sachdeva not out 1
Extras: (b-9, lb-11, nb-22) 42
Total: (all out in 135.4 overs) 414

Fall of wickets: 1/17, 2/34, 3/69, 4/117, 5/211, 6/213, 7/228, 8/330, 9/412

Bowling: Jesuraj 26-8-49-2; Vignesh 12-1-53-1; Aashish Kapoor 48-5-125-3; R Ramkumar 35-2-115-2; Vidyuth 6-0-21-0; S Badrinath 3-0-13-0; S Sriram 5.4-0-18-1.

Tamil Nadu (2nd Innings):
Vidyuth c Chetanya Nanda b Amit Bhandari 2
S Sriram lbw Kuldeep Rawat 1
S Badrinath c Amit Bhandari b Chetanya Nanda 82
D Karthik c Varun Kumar b Aditya Jain 26
Hemang Badani run out 5
S Sharath not out 46
Vignesh c Amit Bhandari b Chetanya Nanda 7
Vasudeva Das not out 9
Extras: (b-1, lb-2, nb-1) 4
Total: (for six wkts, in 33 overs) 182

Fall of wickets: 1/3, 2/7, 3/61, 4/73, 5/148, 6/163

Bowling: Kuldeep Rawat 4-0-18-1, Amit Bhandari 5-0-38-1, Chetanya Nanda 12-0-67-2, Aditya Jain 3-0-8-1, Yogesh Sachdeva 9-0-48-0.

Delhi (2nd innings):
Shikhar Dhawan not out 56
Aakash Chopra c Badrinath b A.Kapoor 16
Mithun Minhas not out 36
Extras: (b-6, nb-3) 9
Total: (for one wkt, in 32 overs) 117

Fall of wickets: 1/36

Bowling: R.Jesuraj 3-0-20-0, A.Kapoor 12-3-35-1, R.Ramkumar 12-3-41-0, Vidyuth 4-1-11-0, Sharath 1-0-4-0.