Ranji Trophy | Nabi tears through Madhya Pradesh, propels J&K into the semifinals

Auqib Nabi stole the amusement with a career-best 12-wicket haul arsenic Jammu & Kashmir, fuelled by the pacer’s appetite for wickets, crushed erstwhile champion Madhya Pradesh by 56 runs to tempest into the Ranji Trophy semifinals present connected Monday.

Chasing 291 connected the penultimate day, the 2021-22 champion Madhya Pradesh was dismissed for 234, paving the mode for Jammu & Kashmir to march into the past 4 round, wherever it volition look Bengal.

The 29-year-old Nabi again emerged arsenic the wrecker-in-chief, adding 5 for 70 to his first-innings haul of 7 wickets to decorativeness with a twelve wickets for conscionable 110 runs.

Finishing touches

Madhya Pradesh, resuming astatine 87 for 5 with Nabi having taken 3 for 23, saw the pacer instrumentality to decorativeness the job, archetypal dismissing Ramveer Gurjar (11) and past breaking the absorption of Saransh Jain, who had stood steadfast with an 81-ball 64 to support the location team’s hopes alive.

Tailender Aryan Pandey’s 22 was the past wicket to fall, but Madhya Pradesh’s illness had already begun earlier successful the day, with Venkatesh Iyer being the archetypal to spell astatine 104, adding conscionable 20 runs to his overnight people of seven.

Pressing on

Sensing victory, J&K pressed on, but veteran Saransh kept the combat alive, stitching unneurotic invaluable partnerships with Shubham Sharma (32) and Ramveer before yet falling to Nabi, having struck 7 boundaries and a six.

Left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq was different cardinal wicket-taker for J & K, claiming 3 for 49.

The scores:

J&K — 1st innings: 194.

Madhya Pradesh — 1st innings: 152.

J&K — 2nd innings: 248.

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 c Wadhwan b Mushtaq 32, Rajat Patidar c Yawer b Nabi 8, Kumar Kartikeya b Nabi 0, Venkatesh Iyer c Wadhwan b Sunil 17, Saransh Jain b Nabi 64, Ramveer Gujjar c Wadhwan b Nabi 11, Aryan Pandey b Yudhvir 22, Kuldeep Sen (not out) 4; Extras (b-13, lb-5, nb-4, w-1): 23; Total (in 68.3 overs): 234.

Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-56, 3-59, 4-76, 5-76, 6-104, 7-145, 8-191, 9-211.

J&K bowling: Nabi 24-4-70-5, Sunil 11-2-34-1, Yudhvir 14.3-0-62-1, Mushtaq 18-2-49-3, Vanshaj 1-0-1-0.