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When a squad reaches the constituent of implicit dominance, they don’t hold — they spell for the termination — and that’s precisely what Jammu & Kashmir did connected the penultimate time of its Ranji Trophy Elite Group-D lucifer against Hyderabad.
Abdul Samad ignited a acold but agleam Jammu greeting with a composed and liable 125 (200b, 10x4, 6x6), helping his broadside acceptable a mammoth 472-run target, portion left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq’s guile pushed the visitors to the brink astatine the J&K Sports Hostel and Science College crushed connected Tuesday.
Abid Mushtaq. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
Hyderabad collapsed similar a location of cards successful pursuit. The descent began erstwhile Mushtaq had opener Abhirath Reddy caught behind. Off-spinner Sahil Lotra past breached the defence of the different opener, Tanmay Agarwal, earlier Mushtaq dismissed K. Himateja and Nitish Reddy disconnected consecutive deliveries successful the 31st over.
Skipper Rahul Singh past fell to Lotra, and Mushtaq soon trapped Tanay Thyagarajan, leaving Hyderabad reeling astatine 119 for six.
A 42-run seventh-wicket absorption betwixt Aniketh Reddy and Rahul Radesh pushed the full past 150. But conscionable earlier stumps, pacer Aquib Nabi recovered Radesh’s extracurricular edge, arsenic Hyderabad ended the time astatine 169 for seven, needing a occurrence to survive.
Earlier, Kanhaiya Wadhwan and Samad batted with trademark swagger. There were deft cuts, wristy flicks, and a stunning inside-out changeable implicit extra-cover that landed adjacent the fistful of fans, bringing up his period successful style.
Wadhwan, who played the cleanable foil, missed retired connected a well-deserved period (95, 110b, 11x4, 1x6), undone by a peach from pacer B. Punnaiah. Lotra didn’t past long, falling to Rakshann Readdi, portion Samad — looking to accelerate — offered a elemental instrumentality drawback to Tanay.
Mushtaq recovered the bound thrice earlier being removed by Kartikeya Kak. Aquib launched a mates of lusty blows implicit heavy mid-wicket earlier falling to Tanay, who besides trapped Umar Nazir soon after, arsenic J&K yet acceptable an imposing target.
The scores: Jammu & Kashmir — 1st innings: 170.
Hyderabad — 1st innings: 121.
Jammu & Kashmir — 2nd innings: Qamran Iqbal lbw b Rakshann 50, Shubham Khajuria b Kartikeya 5, Vivrant Sharma c Tanmay b Tanay 45, Paras Dogra b Rakshann 5, Abdul Samad c & b Tanay 125, Kanhaiya Wadhwan b Punnaiah 95, Sahil Lotra b Rakshann 7, Abid Mushtaq lbw b Kartikeya 22, Auqib Nabi lbw b Tanay 27, Umar Nazir lbw b Tanay 9, Sunil Kumar (not out) 9; Extras (w-1, b-20, lb-2) 23; Total (in 100.5 overs): 422.
Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-81, 3-95, 4-127, 5-318, 6-336, 7-356, 8-387, 9-409.
Hyderabad bowling: Punnaiah 12-2-61-1, Kartikeya 21-2-98-2, Tanay 24.5-4-87-4, Rakshann 23-2-86-3, Aniketh 19-0-66-0, Himateja 1-0-2-0.
Hyderabad — 2nd innings: Tanmay Agarwal b Lotra 47, Abhirath Reddy c Wadhwan b Mushtaq 18, Rahul Singh c Mushtaq b Lotra 30, K. Himateja lbw b Mushtaq 12, Nitish Reddy lbw b Mushtaq 0, Rahul Radesh c Wadhwan b Auqib 20, Tanay Thyagarajan lbw b Mushtaq 0, Aniketh Reddy (batting) 35, Rakshann Readdi (batting) 0; Extras (nb-3, b-4): 7; Total (for 7 wkts. In 52.3 overs): 169.
Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-84, 3-112, 4-112, 5-114, 6-119, 7-161.
Jammu & Kashmir bowling: Auqib 7.3-4-15-1, Nazir 9-3-31-0, Sunil 9-1-31-0, Mushtaq 16-2-56-4, Lotra 10-2-28-2, Samad 1-0-4-0.
