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On a lukewarm Sunday day astatine the MCA-BKC ground, K.L. Rahul came up with 1 of his grittiest innings to support Karnataka successful the hunt for a Ranji Trophy semifinal berth.
After Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande added 89 runs successful 82 balls to usher Mumbai to 377 and acceptable a 325-run people for Karnataka, Rahul (60 batting, 94b, 7x4) showed his brilliance with the bat, contempt the visitant losing Mayank Agarwal early.
Rahul’s 84-run concern with skipper Devdutt Padikkal was astatine the forefront of Karnataka’s fightback. As the aboveground eased retired aft initially helping the bowlers, Rahul mostly played successful the V to bring up his 42nd First Class 50 and enactment Karnataka connected steadfast footing.
Padikkal, who guided Karnataka to a come-from-behind triumph against Punjab successful the past radical match, looked connected people to people different fifty, but Tanush Kotian struck arsenic the southpaw offered a regularisation drawback to Yashasvi Jaiswal astatine archetypal slip.
But with Rahul and Karun Nair holding fort, Karnataka ended the time astatine 113 for two, 212 runs distant from victory.
However, with the aboveground offering immoderate crook astatine the fag end, the Mumbai spinners Kotian and Shams Mulani volition person a relation to play. And arsenic wicketkeeper-batter Akash Anand, who scored 70 successful the 2nd innings, indicated that adjacent though the crippled is ‘evenly poised’, Mumbai remains connected top, with its spinners hoping to marque optimum usage of the ‘known conditions’ connected the 4th day.
Earlier, resuming the time astatine 189 for two, Musheer Khan couldn’t widen his enactment arsenic helium was caught down by Kruthik Krishna successful Vidyadhar Patil’s opening over. After Akash, too, missed retired connected a deserving century, Mumbai mislaid wickets successful clusters earlier Kotian and Deshpande stepped up. While Mumbai managed to unafraid a formidable lead, it was a memorable time for Karnataka stumper Kruthik, who made it to the grounds books with six catches and 1 stumping.
The scores: Mumbai — 1st innings: 120.
Karnataka — 1st innings: 173.
Mumbai — 2nd innings: Yashasvi Jaiswal st. Kruthik b Shreyas 36, Akhil Herwadkar (run out) 33, Akash Anand c Kruthik b Kaverappa 70, Musheer Khan c Kruthik b Vidyadhar 49, Siddhesh Lad lbw b Shikhar 25, Suryansh Shedge c Kruthik b Vidhyadhar 25, Shams Mulani c Kruthik b Shikhar 9, Shardul Thakur c Rahul b Shikhar 1, Tanush Kotian (not out) 48, Tushar Deshpande c Kruthik b Kaverappa 47, Mohit Avasthi c Kruthik b Prasidh 0; Extras: (lb-14, b-9, nb-2, w- 9) 34; Total (in 98.3 overs): 377.
Fall of wickets: 1-77, 2-77, 3-191, 4-227, 5-241, 6-256, 7-258, 8-287, 9-376.
Karnataka bowling: Vidyadhar 22-5-78-2, Prasidh 19.3-2-71-1, Kaverappa 17-0-78-2, Shreyas 20-2-82-1, Shikhar 20-3-45-3.
Karnataka — 2nd innings: Mayank Agarwal c Avasthi b Shardul 3, K.L. Rahul (batting) 60, Devdutt Padikkal c Jaiswal b Kotian 39, Karun Nair (batting) 9; Extras: (lb-2) 2; Total (for 2 wkts. successful 29 overs): 113.
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-96.
Mumbai bowling: Shardul 5-1-24-1, Avasthi 5-0-18-0, Mulani 8-0-32-0, Deshpande 5-0-23-0, Kotian 5-1-13-1, Musheer 1-0-1-0.
