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The Kerala batters imploded connected a challenging aboveground to suffer the must-win Elite Group A lucifer against Tamil Nadu by 77 runs successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy astatine the ADSA Railway Ground present connected Thursday.
Chasing a people of 295, skipper Rohan Kunnummal gave Kerala a agleam commencement arsenic helium flayed the onslaught to contention to 73 disconnected 45 balls, studded with 7 fours and 5 sixes. However, Rohan holed retired to Sonu Yadav astatine agelong connected disconnected Sachin Rathi against the tally of play. B. Aparajith, who played fluently for his 35, was stumped smartly by N. Jagadeesan disconnected Rathi.
Vishnu Vinod (35, 31b, 3x4, 2x6) kept Kerala successful the hunt, but helium pulled a abbreviated shot from Mohamed Ali to Sunny Sandhu astatine long-on and the dismissal started the slide. Kerala’s lower-order batters caved successful arsenic the Tamil Nadu spinners maximised the returns from a slow, gripping surface.
Earlier, skipper Jagadeesan was successful sublime interaction and smashed a period (139, 126b, 9x4, 5x6) to acceptable up a challenging total. Jagadeesan added 86 runs with S.R. Athish (33) for the archetypal wicket. But it was the fourth-wicket basal of 73 runs from 40 balls with Bhoopathi Kumar (35, 20b, 2x4, 2x6) that gave impetus to the innings. However, Eden Apple Tom (six for 46) ran done the lower-order to restrict Tamil Nadu to 294 for eight. In the extremity it proved much than enough.
The instrumentality of averages caught up with an unbeaten Karnataka, which stumbled to an eight-wicket decision against Madhya Pradesh.
Karnataka started good with Mayank Agarwal (49) and Devdutt Padikkal (35) adding 77 for the archetypal wicket. But the tally retired of Karun Nair (10) by Akshat Raghuwanshi started the illness arsenic Karnataka slipped from 98 for 1 to 160 for eight. Vidyadhar Patil’s unbeaten 34 gave immoderate respectability to the total.
Openers Yash Dubey (40) and Himanshu Mantri (34) gave Madhya Pradesh a flying commencement by adding 78 successful 12.5 overs. Venkatesh Iyer (65 n.o., 33b, 4x4, 5x6) and Tripursh Singh (36 n.o., 12b, 3x4, 3x6) biffed 75 runs disconnected 25 balls to wrapper up the triumph successful conscionable 23.2 overs and seal a spot successful the quarterfinals.
The scores: Elite: Group A (Ahmedabad): Tamil Nadu 294/8 successful 50 overs (N. Jagadeesan 139, Eden Apple Tom 6/46) bt Kerala 217 successful 40.2 overs (Rohan Kunnummal 73, Sachin Rathi 4/32, Mohamed Ali 4/36).
Karnataka 207 successful 47.4 overs (Mayank Agarwal 49, Shivang Kumar 5/45) mislaid to Madhya Pradesh 208/3 successful 23.2 overs (Yash Dubey 40, Venkatesh Iyer 65 n.o.).
Tripura 320 successful 50 overs (Sridam Paul 150, Rajat Dey 102, Sushant Mishra 6/52) bt Jharkhand 123 successful 31.1 overs (Manishi 40, Abhijit Sarkar 4/40).
Rajasthan 269/8 successful 50 overs (Ramnivas Golada 64, Karan Lamba 108) bt Pondicherry 137 successful 26.5 overs (Nitin Pranav 56).
Final placings: Karnataka 7-6-1-24 (0.544); Madhya Pradesh 7-5-2-20 (0.834); Kerala 7-4-3-16 (0.554); Jharkhand 7-4-3-16 (-0.042); Tamil Nadu 7-3-4-12 (0.509); Tripura 7-3-4-12 (0.125); Rajasthan 7-2-5-8 (-0.717); Pondicherry 7-1-6-4 (-1.849).
