3 months ago
1
A valiant last-wicket basal and precocious strikes with the shot enactment Jammu and Kashmir successful premier presumption against Madhya Pradesh connected the 3rd time of their Ranji Trophy quarterfinal astatine the Holkar Stadium present connected Sunday.
In the greeting session, J & K saluted Vanshaj Sharma (54 n.o.) and Sunil Kumar (26) for adding 65 important runs successful a 10th-wicket confederation which acceptable a people of 291. MP was jittery successful the pursuit, slipping to 87 for five.
The location squad volition participate the penultimate time needing a further 204 runs for victory, a pugnacious inquire fixed MP’s batting woes successful this clash.
Resuming connected the second-innings people of 85 for five, J & K overnight batters Kanhaiya Wadhawan and Abid Mushtaq made a sedate start. Wadhawan (23), however, erred erstwhile helium flung his bat astatine a transportation from pacer Ramveer Gurjar. Mushtaq (41) suffered a akin unreserved of blood, falling retired of equilibrium to awkwardly hook Kuldeep Sen to heavy fine-leg. MP soon had J & K successful occupation astatine 183 for nine, mounting its sights connected a manageable 230-odd target.
But successful a uncommon twist, Vanshaj and Sunil showed mettle and temperament that were missing successful much established batters.
The young players, some of whom person played little than 10 First Class fixtures each, kept MP connected the tract for 23 much overs. As clip wore on, the location squad grew frustrated.
MP skipper Rajat Patidar was near bereft of ideas, arsenic Vanshaj and Sunil tackled everything thrown astatine them with easiness – a dispersed retired field, bouncers from the speedsters, and other formation from the spinners.
By the clip Sunil’s precocious chopped landed successful the hands of the third-man fielder, the J & K pb had ballooned adjacent to 300. An energised J & K outfit ran riot with the shot successful hand. MP opener Yash Dubey, usually a dependable presence, uncharacteristically attempted to hook Auqib Nabi, but sent the shot up and not acold enough.
Left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq lifted the J & K tone erstwhile helium dived afloat magnitude to propulsion disconnected a one-handed caught and bowled blinder to disregard Harsh Gawali.
Patidar’s forgettable outing ended with a hard poke and edge. Nightwatcher Kumar Kartikeya’s stumps were flattened by a Nabi yorker the precise archetypal transportation helium faced. It is present up to Shubham Sharma (11 batting) and Venkatesh Iyer (7 batting) to propulsion MP retired of the woods.
The scores: J & K — 1st innings: 194.
Madhya Pradesh — 1st innings: 152.
J & K — 2nd innings: Shubham Khajuria c Dubey b Gurjar 13, Yawer Hassan c Mantri b Kuldeep 1, Shubham Pundir b Kuldeep 4, Paras Dogra c Mantri b Venkatesh 17, Abdul Samad c Mantri b Venkatesh 32, Kanhaiya Wadhawan c (sub) Akshat b Gurjar 23, Abid Mushtaq c Saransh b Kuldeep 41, Vanshaj Sharma (not out) 54, Auqib Nabi lbw b Kuldeep 0, Yudhvir Singh c Gurjar b Venkatesh 18, Sunil Kumar c Gawali b Gurjar 26; Extras (b-9, lb-1, nb-8, w-1): 19; Total (in 70.3 overs): 248.
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-19, 3-19, 4-68, 5-73, 6-124, 7-149, 8-149, 9-183.
Madhya Pradesh bowling: Aryan 1.1-0-4-0, Kuldeep 18-3-65-4, Venkatesh 10.5-1-23-3, Gurjar 19.3-1-66-3, Kartikeya 10-1-39-0, Saransh 11-2-41-0.
Madhya Pradesh — 2nd innings: Yash Dubey c Yudhvir b Nabi 20, Himanshu Mantri c Samad b Mushtaq 31, Harsh Gawali c & b Mushtaq 2, Shubham Sharma (batting) 11, Rajat Patidar c Yawer b Nabi 8, Kumar Kartikeya b Nabi 0, Venkatesh Iyer (batting) 7; Extras (b-5, lb-3): 8; Total (for 5 wkts. successful 28 overs): 87.
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-56, 3-59, 4-76, 5-76.
J & K bowling: Nabi 10-3-23-3, Sunil 4-1-11-0, Yudhvir 8-0-26-0, Mushtaq 6-0-19-2.
