Sreedharan Sharath struck his second century on the trot to help Tamil Nadu post 353 on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite 'B' league cricket match against Uttar Pradesh at the K D Singh stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Sharath, who had scored 105 against Hyderabad at home in the last match struck 132 with 17 fours before becoming the last batsman out, leg before to R P Singh.

R P Singh returned with figures of five for 96.

In reply, the hosts were two without loss at close.

Scoreboard

Tamil Nadu (1st innings):
S Vidyut b Singh 52
S Suresh c Amir Khan b Singh 7
S Sriram lbw Zaidi 36
S Badrinath c Amir Khan b Singh 37
S Sharath b Singh 132
K Vasudevadas lbw Zaidi 24
Vikram Kumar c Parvinder Singh b Shukla 21
R Ramkumar b Singh 6
M R Shrinivas lbw Raina 16
R Raghuram lbw Gupta 1
M O Arjun Sarathy not out 1.

Extras: (b 6, lb 6, w 6, nb 2) 20

Total: (all out, 174.4 overs, 690 mins) 353

Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-108, 3-120, 4-181, 5-223, 6-263, 7-276, 8-333, 9-342,10-353.

Bowling: Zaidi 34-10-86-2 (2nb), Singh 40.4-11-96-5 (2w), Raina 18-5-41-1, Gupta 50-18-77-1, Shukla 14-2-20-1, Elahi 17-7-21-0, Yadav 1-1-0-0.

Uttar Pradesh (1st innings):
R Prakash batting 2
S K Shukla batting 0

Extras: 0

Total: (no wicket, 5 overs) 2

Bowling: Shrinivas 2-1-1-0, Suresh 1-0-1-0, Ramkumar 1-1-0-0, Raghuram 1-1-0-0.