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| Venue | Indian Cement Company Ground, Tirunelveli on 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th November 1998 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Karnataka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Tamil Nadu 3; Karnataka 3 |
| Umpires | A Patel, S Rao |
| Referee | MD Gunjal |
| Scorer | TR Kashyappan |
| Close of play day 1 | Karnataka (1) 224/5 (Vijay Bharadwaj 90*, Katti 1*; 92 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Karnataka (1) 390/7 (Katti 68*, Somasekhar 5*; 182 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Tamil Nadu (1) 78/4 (Badani 24*, Kumaran 0*; 44 overs) |
| Karnataka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SB Somasunder | c Arasu b Sriram | 106 | 245 | 305 | 6 | 2 | |
| J Arunkumar | c Ganesh Kumar b Kumaran | 7 | 35 | 49 | - | - | |
| HT Girish Rao | b Saravanan | 1 | 20 | 25 | - | - | |
| R Vijay Bharadwaj | c Saravanan b Kumaran | 171 | 377 | 522 | 14 | 6 | |
| FR Khaleel | b Vasu | 2 | 32 | 38 | - | - | |
| A Vijay | lbw b Kumaran | 0 | 8 | 6 | - | - | |
| A Katti | lbw b Saravanan | 72 | 308 | 377 | 14 | 1 | |
| DS Ananth | c Arasu b Sriram | 4 | 35 | 43 | - | - | |
| +S Somasekhar | not out | 26 | 122 | 171 | - | - | |
| AR Yalvigi | b Kumaran | 5 | 12 | 20 | - | - | |
| D Ganesh | b Sriram | 16 | 45 | 64 | 2 | - | |
| Extras | (11 b, 10 lb, 8 nb) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 205.1 overs) | 439 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (Arunkumar, 10.3 ov), 2-28 (Girish Rao, 16.1 ov), 3-204 (Somasunder, 78.3 ov), 4-213 (Khaleel, 87.3 ov), 5-214 (A Vijay, 88.6 ov), 6-348 (Vijay Bharadwaj, 148.1 ov), 7-362 (Ananth, 160.5 ov), 8-398 (Katti, 183.6 ov), 9-407 (Yalvigi, 188.4 ov), 10-439 (Ganesh, 205.1 ov) | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kumaran | 48 | 13 | 87 | 4 | - | 8 | |
| Vasu | 56 | 25 | 76 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Saravanan | 17 | 4 | 36 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ganesh Kumar | 35 | 7 | 105 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sriram | 44.1 | 13 | 99 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ramesh | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Badani | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tamil Nadu first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WV Raman | c Khaleel b Somasunder | 3 | 12 | 15 | - | - | |
| S Ramesh | c Somasekhar b Ganesh | 3 | 33 | 54 | - | - | |
| S Sriram | b Yalvigi | 32 | 124 | 149 | 2 | - | |
| *S Sharath | c Katti b Ganesh | 10 | 20 | 22 | 1 | - | |
| HK Badani | c Ananth b Yalvigi | 44 | 119 | 173 | 3 | 1 | |
| T Kumaran | c A Vijay b Katti | 29 | 93 | 133 | 4 | - | |
| J Madanagopal | c Ganesh b Katti | 1 | 23 | 29 | - | - | |
| SV Saravanan | lbw b Vijay Bharadwaj | 30 | 156 | 194 | - | - | |
| +TR Arasu | not out | 56 | 211 | 232 | 1 | 1 | |
| D Vasu | not out | 2 | 37 | 57 | - | - | |
| S Ganesh Kumar | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 139 overs) | 225 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Raman, 3.3 ov), 2-14 (Ramesh, 12.3 ov), 3-32 (Sharath, 18.4 ov), 4-76 (Sriram, 41.5 ov), 5-123 (Badani, 59.2 ov), 6-130 (Madanagopal, 66.6 ov), 7-131 (Kumaran, 72.6 ov), 8-204 (Saravanan, 121.5 ov) | |||||||
| Karnataka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ganesh | 45 | 8 | 104 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Somasunder | 13 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Yalvigi | 29 | 16 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Katti | 31 | 14 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ananth | 11 | 3 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vijay Bharadwaj | 8 | 1 | 17 | 1 | - | 4 | |
| Arunkumar | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| A Vijay | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |