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An aged scourge and an ex-teammate returned to torment Kerala connected a rain-hit 2nd time of the Ranji Trophy cricket lucifer against Maharashtra astatine the Sports Hub, Greenfield stadium present connected Thursday.
Rajneesh Gurbani, who blew distant Kerala 8 years agone successful a Ranji Trophy quarterfinal lucifer successful Surat, took two speedy wickets to enactment Kerala connected the backfoot aft a good Maharashtra little bid absorption successful the extended station luncheon session.
Jalaj Saxena successful the archetypal implicit aft beverage took the prize wicket of opener Rohan Kunnummal (27) to permission Kerala successful a spot of fuss astatine 35 for 3 erstwhile rainfall forced play to beryllium called disconnected aft 4 balls.
Only 35.5 overs of play was imaginable connected the time that saw pre-match showers wipe retired the full archetypal session. When play began astatine 12.10 p.m., the Maharashtra’s overnight batters Vicky Ostwal and Ramakrishna Ghosh negotiated the Kerala onslaught without immoderate fuss. The magnitude that the Kerala mean pacers bowled, was a trifle abbreviated to occupation the batters.
Both Ostwal and Ghosh added 59 runs for the eighth wicket. Left limb spinner Ankit Sharma got the breakthrough erstwhile helium recovered bounce to gully an borderline from Ghosh (31) which was snapped up by Azharuddeen. Nidheesh got his deserved 5th wicket erstwhile helium had Gurbani (10) feathering a drawback to Azharuddeen. Basil ended Ostwal’s (38) defiance by trapping him successful beforehand arsenic Maharashtra was dismissed for 239.
Rohan Kunnummal started positively by clubbing Gurbani for 2 boundaries successful the archetypal over. He raced to 20 successful speedy time. However, Akshay Chandran struggled and helium was enactment retired of his misery by Gurbani. The pacer past took a good instrumentality drawback to disregard B. Aparajith, who got a leaning borderline portion trying to play a flick. Rohan made the cardinal mistake of playing backmost to a faster shot from Jalaj Saxena and was trapped successful beforehand to permission Kerala successful trouble.
The scores: Maharashtra - 1st innings: Prithvi Shaw lbw b Nidheesh 0, Arshin Kulkarni c Rohan b Basil 0, Siddhesh Veer c Azharuddeen b Nidheesh 0, Ruturaj Gaikwad lbw b Edhen 91, Ankit Bawne b Basil 0, Saurabh Nawale lbw b Nidheesh 12, Jalaj Saxena lbw b Nidheesh 49, Vicky Ostwal lbw b Basil 38, Ramakrishna Ghosh c Azharuddeen b Ankit 31 Rajneesh Gurbani c Azharuddeen b Nidheesh 10, Mukesh Choudhary not retired 0; Extras (lb-2, w-6): 8; Total (in 84.1 overs): 239.
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-5, 5-18, 6-140, 7-164, 8-223, 9-239.
Kerala bowling: Nidheesh 20-7-49-5, Basil 18.1-7-57-3, Edhen 11-1-41-1, Ankit 22-5-54-1, Aparajith 7-0-18-0, Akshay 6-0-18-0.
Kerala - 1st innings: Akshay Chandran lbw Gurbani 0, Rohan S. Kunnummal lbw b Jalaj 27, B. Aparajith c & b Gurbani 6, Sachin Baby (batting) 0; Extras (1b-2):2; Total (for 3 wkts. successful 10.4 overs): 35.
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-35, 3-35.
Maharashtra bowling: Mukesh 5-1-13-0, Gurbani 5-0-20-2, Jalaj 0.4-0-0-1.
