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It took conscionable six overs into Nagaland’s archetypal innings for Gurjapneet Singh to carve his sanction into Tamil Nadu’s cricketing history. The left-arm pacer became lone the seventh bowler from the State to assertion a Ranji Trophy hat-trick, achieving the feat connected time 2 of their Group-A brushwood astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence Grounds present connected Sunday.
In a sensational spell, Gurjapneet tore done Nagaland’s apical order. He began by uprooting opener Sedezhalie’s stumps with a searing delivery. Hem was next, undone by a transportation that pitched backmost of a magnitude and recovered the extracurricular edge. The champion of the batch came erstwhile skipper R. Jonathan was drawn into a tentative poke astatine 1 conscionable extracurricular off, lone to borderline it to the slips. In a blink, Nagaland was reeling astatine 9 for three.
Gurjapneet returned aboriginal to flatten Chetan Bist’s stumps, tightening TN’s aboriginal grip. But Nagaland’s absorption took signifier done D. Nischal and Yugandhar, who weathered the tempest with patience and composure.
The brace batted with maturity and steadied the innings with an unbroken 119-run fifth-wicket stand. Nischal was the aggressor, playing gorgeous drives done the disconnected broadside and crisp flicks done the on, portion Yugandhar anchored with calm assurance. The duo carried Nagaland past the 100-run mark.
As Yugandhar grew successful confidence, helium stepped retired to loft left-arm spinner D.T. Chandrasekar implicit long-on for a towering six. Nothing could interruption the pair’s absorption arsenic they not lone survived but thrived implicit 2 sessions, taking Nagaland to 150 for 4 astatine stumps without further damage.
Earlier, overnight batters Pradosh Ranjan Paul (201 n.o., 314b, 23x4) and Andre Siddharth (65, 93b, 10x4) began positively, uncovering the obstruction regularly to adhd 71 runs successful the archetypal hour. A well-directed abbreviated shot yet ended their 124-run third-wicket basal erstwhile Andre top-edged one, soon aft which Pradosh reached his double-hundred to instrumentality the people 512 for 3 earlier Tamil Nadu declared.
The scores: Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: S.R. Athish c Bist b Odilemba 14, R. Vimal Khumar c Jonathan b More 189, Pradosh Ranjan Paul 206 (not out), C. Andre Siddarth c More b Saurav 65, B. Indrajith 32 (not out); Extras: (nb-7, w-3, lb-1): 11; Total (for 3 wkts. decl successful 115 overs): 512.
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-337, 3-461.
Nagaland bowling: More 18.3-2-44-1, Odilemba 16-1-87-1, Jonathan 25.3-2-106-0, Saurav 19-3-69-1, Tahmeed 15-0-79-0, Imliwati 21-0-126-0.
Nagaland — 1st innings: Sedezhalie b Gurjapneet 6, D. Nischal (batting) 80, Hem c Athish b Gurjapneet 0, R. Jonathan c Indrajith b Gurjapneet 0, Chetan Bist b Gurjapneet 0, Yugandhar (batting) 58; Extras: (w-2): 2; Total (for 4 wkts. successful 58 overs): 150.
Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-9, 3-9, 4-31.
Tamil Nadu bowling: Warrier 11-4-35-0, Gurjapneet 12-3-34-4, Ambrish 4-0-13-0, Sai Kishore 17-6-41-0, D.T. Chandrasekar 13-3-23-0, Pradosh 1-0-4-0.
