A fine all-round performance by Amit Mishra helped Haryana gain control of their Ranji Trophy Super League match against Saurashtra, in Rajkot on Wednesday.
Mishra played a valuable innings of 84 to help his team cross the 300-run mark and claimed two wickets when Surashtra batted.
Saurashtra were 134 for 5 at close on Day 2 in reply to Haryana's first innings of 308, needing another 25 to avoid the follow-on.
Feroz Bambhania (19) and Ravindra Jadeja (20) were at the crease at stumps.
Jadeja hit four fours in the last over of the day bowled by Amit Mishra.
Mishra, the top scorer in Haryana's first innings, struck twice to send back Sitanshu Kotak (89) and Sagar Jogiyani (9).
Pacemen Joginder Sharma and Sanjay Badhwar shared a wicket each in their opening spells.
Earlier, Sandip Singh and Amit Mishra put on 132 runs partnership for the eighth wicket to frustrate the host team's bowlers. Singh was dismissed for 58.
Mishra then shared a short partnership of 23 runs with Gaurav Vashistha (19 not out), before being dismissed by Rakesh Dhruve.
Scorecard
Haryana (1st innings): overnight 238 for 7
Nitin saini st S Jogiyani b. R Dhruve 35
Sumit Sharma c P Joshi b. S Maniar 19
Ankit Rawat b S Jobanputra 14
Deepak Joon c Jogiyani b. R Dhruve 33
Sachin Rana c J Shah b R Dhruve 15
Mahesh Rawat c F Bambhania b K Makwana 3
Sandip Singh c S Jogiyani b S Maniar 58
Joginder Sharma lbw R Dhruve 5
Amit Mishra c S Kotak b R Dhruve 84
Gaurav Vashistha not out 19
Sanjay Badhwar c P Joshi b R Jadeja 6
Extras: (b-6, lb-7, nb-2, w-2) 17
Total: (all out off 120.5 overs ) 308
Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-57, 3-92, 40117, 5-128, 6-128, 7-133, 8-265, 9-288, 10-308.
Bowling: Sandip Jobanputra 25-8-58-1, Sandip Maniar 23-5-60-2, Ravindra Jadeja 22.5-7-47-1, Rakesh Dhruve 33-4-88-5, Kamlesh Makwana 16-4-40-1, Sitanshu Kotak 1-0-2-0.
Saurashtra (1st innings):
Prashant Joshi c S Rana b J Sharma 0
Sagar Jogiyani c S Rana b A Mishra 9
Sitanshu Kotak c A Rawat b A Mishra 39
Cheteshwar Pujara c S Rana b S Badhwar 13
Jaydev Shah b G Vashistha 33
Feroz Bambhania not out 19
Ravindra Jadeja not out 20
Extras: (lb-1) 1
Total: (for 5 wickets in 58 overs) 134
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-34, 3-78, 4-98, 5-108.
Bowling: Joginder Sharma 15-6-17-1, Sanjay Badhwar 8-3-27-1, Sachin Rana 7-4-13-0, Gaurav Vashistha 14-5-30-1, Amit Mishra 14-6-46-2.
