All-rounder Stuart Binny tormented the East Zone batsmen with his controlled swing bowling as they lost as many as 14 wickets with South Zone marching towards a comprehensive innings victory at the end of second day in the semi-final of the Duleep Trophy.
Starting the day at 236 for nine South's first innings ended at 264 with last pair of HS Sharath (6 no) and Abhimanyu Mithun (23) batting out the first hour.
The South bowlers then came out all guns blazing to skittle East for a paltry 84 as Binny was the pick of the bowlers with figures of four for 24 from 13 overs.
With a huge lead of 180 runs, South captain Ranganath Vinay Kumar decided to enforce the follow-on but East didn't fare any better in the their second essay tottering at 30 for 4 when stumps were drawn.
With 150 runs still needed to avoid innings defeat, the manner in which Manoj Tiwary and company batted doesn't inspire confidence of highest order. Binny again turned out to be the wrecker-in-chief as his dibbly dobbly swing bowling got him 3/7 in five overs.
The India all-rounder now has match-figures of 7/31 with two days of play still left. Another interesting turn of event was discarded India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha bowling wearing half sleeves with an elbow potective gear.
Ojha got 3/9 as he polished off the tail.
On the first day, Laxmi Ratan Shukla exploited the conditions hitting the right length on a pitch that had fair amount of green, it was Binny's turn to stick to the basics on the second day as he bowled good areas and got the ball to move both ways after pitching.
The East batsmen could never show positive intent as even the senior players like Manoj Tiwary (4 and 8) pushing hard at away going deliveries only to be snapped up by slip fielders.
Veteran batsmen Laxmi Ratan Shukla and talented southpaw Sudeep Chatterjee were all guilty of not getting to the pitch of the moving deliveries.
Binny pitched his deliveries on a drivable length and got it to move as none of the batsmen in the East Zone top-order were ready to cover the swing and ended up giving Manish Pandey, Lokesh Rahul and Karun Nair, some serious slip catching practice.
