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Chirag Jani’s archetypal period successful 5 years couldn’t person travel astatine a amended clip arsenic it gave Saurashtra a large accidental to unit a triumph against Kerala successful the Ranji Trophy Elite Group-B lucifer astatine the KCA Ground, Mangalapuram, adjacent present connected Monday.
Chirag’s eighth First Class 100 (152, 204b, 14x4, 4x6) carried the distant broadside from a sticky 69 for 3 to a commanding 351 for five, with an wide pb of 278 runs, astatine stumps connected the penultimate day.
In the morning, determination was assistance for the Kerala pacers and they deed the close areas to occupation the batters. Nidheesh trapped Jay Gohil (24) successful beforehand disconnected the 2nd implicit of the day. However, Eden Apple Tom could lone outcry successful anguish arsenic A.K. Akarsh, successful the 2nd slip, enactment down Gajjar Sammar (on 23) and Arpit Vasavada (on seven) successful the aforesaid over,
Sammar didn’t past agelong but dropping Arpit wounded Kerala arsenic the left-hander dropped anchor to adhd 174 runs for the 4th wicket with Chirag.
The 36-year-old Chirag’s counter-attacking sound took the upwind retired of Kerala’s sails. As the conditions became much batter-friendly, Chirag dominated the Kerala bowlers, carting them to each parts of the field. He deed Ankit Sharma retired of the onslaught and played the pacers with confidence. Chirag pulled Nidheesh implicit midwicket for a six and lifted Ankit implicit the mid-on for a bound to scope his 100 disconnected 149 balls. B. Aparajith broke the stand, forcing Arpit (74) to borderline 1 to Azharuddeen down the stumps.
However, Prerak Mankad joined Chirag to forge a speedy 105-run basal for the 5th wicket which enactment Kerala nether the pressure. Sachin Baby dropped a elemental accidental astatine 2nd gaffe to springiness Mankad a beingness aft the batter had completed his fifty. Chirag was bowled trying a cross-batted swipe against Basil.
Bad airy thwarted Saurashtra’s hopes of adding immoderate speedy runs successful the last session.
The scores: Saurashtra — 1st innings: 160.
Kerala — 1st innings: 233.
Saurashtra — 2nd innings: Harvik Desai c Rohan b Nidheesh 5, Gajjar Sammar b Basil 31, Jay Gohil lbw b Nidheesh 24, Arpit Vasavada c Azharuddeen b Aparajith 74, Chirag Jani b Basil 152, Prerak Mankad (batting) 52, Ansh Gosai (batting) 1; Extras: (b-4, lb-2, nb-3, w-3): 12; Total (for 5 wkts. successful 90 overs): 351.
Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-50, 3-69, 4-243, 5-348.
Kerala bowling: Nidheesh 19-2-61-2, Basil 15-3-46-2, Eden 15-2-47-0, Aparajith 20-1-73-1, Ankit 18-1-101-0, Imran 3-0-17-0.
