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K.L. Rahul made optimum usage of a reprieve to people a gritty period and R. Smaran deed an unbeaten 83 arsenic Karnataka defeated Mumbai by 4 wickets to participate the semifinals of the Ranji Trophy present connected Monday.
With a calm and composed Rahul (130, 182b, 14x1, 1x6) starring the batting portion and bringing up his 24th First Class hundred, Karnataka survived a scare and yet chased down the people of 325 connected the penultimate day.
Knowing the conditions astatine the MCA-BKC crushed well, Mumbai took the tract connected the 4th day, hoping its spinners Tanush Kotian and Shams Mulani volition marque an interaction connected the aboveground that offered immoderate turn.
Even though Karnataka mislaid Karun Nair aboriginal on, Rahul looked determined to get the visiting squad home. He forged a 147-run concern with Smaran (123b, 11x4) for the 4th wicket.
Mumbai squandered an accidental to bounce backmost arsenic its gaffe fielders botched up a regularisation drawback of Rahul, past connected 75, disconnected a nippy Shardul Thakur delivery. As Rahul nicked, the shot moved towards Yashasvi Jaiswal, stationed successful archetypal slip, but successful a bizarre move, Siddhesh Lad dived successful from the 2nd gaffe to marque an attempt, and yet dropped the catch.
There was nary looking backmost since. It was a measured innings by the India planetary arsenic Rahul went connected to people a century, but hardly celebrated the milestone, raising his bat lone concisely earlier getting backmost to the job.
With Smaran going for the shots and Rahul holding fort, it seemed a substance of clip earlier Karnataka romped home. However, determination was immoderate play successful the post-lunch league arsenic Rahul mistimed a one-handed hook disconnected Tushar Deshpande and was caught astatine abbreviated fine-leg by Jaiswal. Deshpande tightened the noose further arsenic a abbreviated shot saw Shreyas Gopal being caught behind. Soon Kotian had Kruthik Krishna stumped.
Having mislaid 3 speedy wickets, Karnataka was successful a spot of fuss earlier Smaran and Vidyadhar Patil rebuilt with an unbroken 40-run basal to get it crossed the line. While Smaran remained solid, Vidyadhar’s unbeaten 30-ball-31 tally cameo saw the eight-time champion mounting up a last-four clash with Uttarakhand.
The scores: Mumbai — 1st innings: 120.
Karnataka — 1st innings: 173.
Mumbai — 2nd innings: 377.
Karnataka — 2nd innings: Mayank Agarwal c Avasthi b Shardul 3, K.L. Rahul c Jaiswal b Deshpande 130, Devdutt Padikkal c Jaiswal b Kotian 39, Karun Nair lbw b Shardul 13, R. Smaran (not out) 83, Shreyas Gopal c Akash b Deshpande 1, Kruthik Krishna st. Akash b Kotian 2, Vidhyadhar Patil (not out) 31; Extras (b-15, lb-3, nb-4, wd-1): 23; Total (for six wkts. successful 73.4 overs): 325.
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-96, 3-119, 4-266, 5-268, 6-285.
Mumbai bowling: Shardul 10-1-55-2, Avasthi 7-0-36-0, Mulani 14.4-0-64-0, Deshpande 18-2-67-2, Kotian 21-2-77-2, Musheer 3-0-8-0.
