England take huge lead against Haryana despite Rahul Dewan's impressive ton

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Rahul Dewan remained unbeaten on 144 but his brilliant knock failed to prevent England taking a huge lead of 188 runs in the third and final warm-up match at Ahmedabad on Saturday.

In reply to England's 521, the Haryana side were bowled out for 333.

For England, Tim Bresnan and Stuart Meaker took three wickets each while Samit Patel bagged two.

At lunch, opener Rahul Dewan completed a patient hundred but found little support from the rest of the Haryana line-up as the team crawled to 256 for seven in their first innings against England XI.

Responding to the visitors' first innings total of 521, Haryana were done in by a middle-order collapse despite the strong start they made yesterday.

At the break, Rahul was unbeaten on 112 with Amit Vashisht (8) giving him company at the other end.

Resuming at overnight 172 for four, the fall of wickets started pretty early for Haryana as Sandeep Singh departed after a 35-ball five.

Brief Score: England 521 (Samit Patel 67, Ian Bell 62; Amit Mishra 4 for 67, Jayant Yadav 4 for 110) lead Haryana 333 (Rahul Dewan 144*, Sunny Singh 55; Tim Bresnan 3 for 67, Stuart Meaker 3 for 72) by 188 runs.