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When Venkatesh Iyer and Rajat Patidar held fort successful the evening session, Madhya Pradesh looked successful large signifier against Karnataka connected the opening time of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B lucifer astatine Alur (1) crushed present connected Thursday.
Against the tally of play, Venkatesh (87, 135b, 12x4) and Patidar (30, 48b, 4x4) were sent back, allowing the location squad to extremity the time connected a high.
From a comfy 233 for three, Madhya Pradesh slipped to 244 for five.
The visitant would beryllium astir disappointed with the mode of Venkatesh’s dismissal. With lone 7 overs to spell for adjacent of play, the 31-year-old fell for the evident bouncer trap laid by pacer V. Vyshak, skying a hook to heavy fine-leg. The southpaw was good connected the mode to a 3rd First Class century, until the lapse of concentration.
Thirteen deliveries later, Karnataka was implicit the satellite erstwhile skipper Patidar drove leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal to K.V. Aneesh astatine cover.
Coming successful astatine five, Patidar was the astir fluent batter connected view. Patidar recovered stroke-making casual successful the evening session, and threatened to instrumentality the crippled distant from Karnataka.
The location squad suffered a mates of setbacks erstwhile skipper Mayank Agarwal and wicketkeeper K.L. Shrijith near the tract and did not return. Mayank was reportedly unwell.
Shrijith injured his digit erstwhile diving afloat magnitude to marque a leg-side stop. Kruthik Krishna replaced Shrijith down the stumps. Krishna, yet to gain a elder headdress for Karnataka, got into the heavy of things erstwhile helium took a bully reflex drawback to disregard Shubham Sharma.
Shubham (33, 151b, 2x4) showed an unrelenting tendency to grind, until helium lunged guardant to Shreyas and nicked it.
Opener Himanshu Mantri (39) was likewise keen to instrumentality around. After spending astir 3 hours astatine the crease, the left-hander was rapped connected the pads by Vyshak. Himanshu’s spouse Yash Dubey (29) threw distant his wicket, stepping retired to left-arm spinner Shikhar Shetty and lobbing it to mid-on.
Karnataka was gladsome to invited backmost Vyshak, who was deemed to acceptable to play aft suffering a concussion successful the caller Vijay Hazare Trophy semifinal. Pacers Abhilash Shetty and M. Venkatesh, however, were ruled retired with injuries.
The scores: Madhya Pradesh — 1st innings: Yash Dubey c Vidhyadhar b Shikhar 29, Himanshu Mantri lbw b Vyshak 39, Shubham Sharma c (sub) Kruthik b Shreyas 33, Venkatesh Iyer c Kaverappa b Vyshak 87, Rajat Patidar c Aneesh b Shreyas 30, Saransh Jain (batting) 6, Aryan Pandey (batting) 5; Extras (b-4, lb-5, w-6): 15; Total (for 5 wkts. successful 90 overs): 244.
Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-89, 3-164, 4-233, 5-233.
Karnataka bowling: Kaverappa 12-4-27-0, Vidyadhar 13-2-33-0, Vyshak 16-4-51-2, Shikhar 27-4-70-1, Shreyas 21-6-53-2, Karun 1-0-1-0.
