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Kumar Kartikeya Singh and Aryan Pandey’s dogged show of last hr batting was capable to gain Madhya Pradesh a gully against Kerala successful their Elite Group-B lucifer astatine the Holkar Stadium present connected Wednesday.
Kerala’s batting dominance was led by the experienced Sachin Baby and B. Aparajith’s, but it was the younker of Sreehari Nair and Eden Apple Tom that bowled it to the precipice of triumph connected the last day.
Sreehari dominated aboriginal proceedings, bowling 19 overs unchanged from the Madhavrao Scindia End successful his archetypal spell, and showing guile arsenic helium chipped distant connected a comparatively docile pitch.
He induced Harsh Gawli to springiness a drawback to screen early, and Yash Dubey followed aft playing down the incorrect line.
Himanshu Mantri was caught astatine abbreviated leg, while Harpreet Singh Bhatia was felled by 1 that kept low.
M.P. sunk further erstwhile V. Abhijith Praveen punished Shubham Sharma and Rishabh Chouhan’s mix-up, leaving the location skipper abbreviated of his ground.
Chouhan and Saransh Jain past looked to dependable proceedings.
The brace reached tea, but Chouhan fell soon aft to Eden’s nip-backer. Saransh also fell aft nicking Eden.
M.D. Nidheesh then came connected to bowl, and struck immediately, squaring up Mohammad Arshad Khan to leave M.P. 8 down.
Surviving
With clip moving out, Kartikeya and Aryan battled, surviving 119 balls. Kerala tried some gait and rotation with attacking fields, but it proved insufficient arsenic the brace helped MP seal a point.
Earlier successful the day, Baby and Aparajith became Kerala’s archetypal centurions of the season.
Ahammed Imran and Abhijith struck a fewer boundaries earlier Kerala called clip connected its innings connected 314 for five.
However, Kerala whitethorn present look astatine that signifier and wonderment whether an earlier declaration could person helped it person 3 important points to six.
The scores:
Kerala — 1st innings: 281.
Madhya Pradesh — 1st innings: 192.
Kerala — 2nd innings: Rohan Kunnummal lbw b Kartikeya 7, Abhishek J. Nair c Chouhan b Kuldeep 30, Sachin Baby (not out) 122, Mohammed Azharuddeen c Harpreet b Saransh 2, B. Aparajith retd. wounded 105, Ahammed Imran lbw b Saransh 24, V. Abhijith Praveen c Aryan b Saransh 11, Ankit Sharma (not out) 0; Extras (b-4, lb-5, nb-1, w-3): 13; Total (for five wkts. decl. successful 84 overs): 314.
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-79, 3-82, 4-300, 5-314.
M.P. bowling: Aryan 13-3-48-0, Kartikeya 23-5-56-1, Arshad 15-0-68-0, Saransh 17-1-61-3, Kuldeep 16-1-72-1.
Madhya Pradesh — 2nd innings: Harsh Gawli c sub (Krishna) b Sreehari 0, Yash Dubey b Sreehari 19, Himanshu Mantri c sub (Krishna) b Sreehari 26, Shubham Sharma tally retired 18, Harpreet Singh Bhatia lbw b Sreehari 13, Rishabh Chouhan lbw b Eden 7, Saransh Jain c Azharuddeen b Eden 31, Aryan Pandey (not out) 23, Mohammad Arshad Khan c Kunnummal b Nidheesh 6, Kumar Kartikeya Singh (not out) 16; Extras (lb-8): 8; Total (for eight wkts. successful 69 overs): 167.
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-33, 3-52, 4-70, 5-78, 6-107, 7-114, 8-126.
Kerala bowling: Sreehari 30-13-51-4, Nidheesh 6-3-16-1, Ankit 21-4-55-0, Eden 10-3-33-2, Imran 2-1-4-0.
