The sigh of relief in the Tamil Nadu camp when they pulled off a draw against Vidarbha in Coimbatore may have echoed all the way to Chennai. For a team that started the Ranji Trophy season with a two-week long camp in Coimbatore, including centre-wicket training sessions, they are without a win in two matches here. They suffered an innings defeat against Jharkhand and managed to avoid another against the defending champions, who through the four days, showed the gulf in class in the most brutal fashion.

On the eve of the game, when Vidarbha began their warm-up drills, they did so with the ‘Tum Hi Ho’ song from Aashiqui 2 blurting in the speaker placed outside their dressing room. The romance between Vidarbha and red-ball cricket was hard to miss. Like Tamil Nadu , they were without four

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