Jaipur: Sachin Yadav slammed a gutsy half-century but rest of the Rajasthan batters disappointed against Chhattisgarh on the second day of the Col CK Nayudu U-23 Trophy quarterfinal at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur on Sunday.At the halfway stage of the four-day encounter, Rajasthan were tottering at 167 for the loss of nine wickets in reply to Chhattisgarh’s first innings total of 286.The visitors trailed by 119 runs and on the verge of conceding a big first innings lead. Opener Sachin Yadav (75: 182b, 10×4) saved the blushes for Rajasthan as wickets kept tumbling at the other end.Varun Bhuie was wrecker-in-chief with half a dozen wickets, while Ayush Pandey, Vasudev Bareth and Prashant Painkra took a wicket each.Earlier, resuming at their overnight score of 257 for 7, Chhattisgarh added 29 runs to be all out for 286 in 100.3 overs.Seamer Chetan Sharma took the two out of three wickets to fall, while Ganesh Suthar bagged the remaining one to return with 3 for 52.Brief ScoresChhattisgarh 286 in 100.3 overs (Mayank Verma 81, Rahul Pradhan 58, Deepak Yadav 36; Chetan Sharma 3-46, Ganesh Suthar 3-52, Mohit Changra 2-67, Deependra Singh 1-51, Anirudh Chouhan 1-50) vs Rajasthan 167/9 in 71 overs (Sachin Yadav 75, Sumit Godara 28, Raj Sharma 24, Darshan Jain 19; Varun Bhuie 6-42).
