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Kerala opener Rohan Kunnummal scored a free-flowing 100 to assistance his broadside to a ascendant presumption against Goa successful their last Elite Group B lucifer present connected Friday.
Riding connected Rohan’s archetypal First Class period successful implicit 3 years, Kerala reached 237 for 2 astatine the extremity of the 2nd time astatine the Goa Cricket Association Ground, 119 runs distant from claiming the first-innings lead.
The 27-year-old Rohan was a representation of assurance passim the time arsenic helium carted 13 fours and 5 sixes connected his mode to an unbeaten 132.
Rohan received a reprieve successful the last implicit of the day, erstwhile helium was stumped disconnected left-arm spinner Amulya Pandrekar’s bowling, lone for the 3rd umpire to awesome a no-ball for overstepping.
Rohan had begun his sound by feasting connected the fuller-length deliveries offered by left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar with immoderate cracking punches connected the up, with a carved six implicit covers the item of their duel.
After breezing past the new-ball threat, Rohan past began to prime isolated the location spinners with lofted shots, targeting the V.
Rohan and Abhishek Nair enactment connected a 97-run opening basal earlier the second was trapped successful beforehand by Pandrekar.
Abhishek’s dismissal, though, had nary interaction connected Rohan’s assertive intent arsenic helium raced to his period disconnected conscionable 106 deliveries.
Working successful tandem with Sachin Baby and Salman Nizar, Rohan helped Kerala chisel distant astatine Goa’s first-innings total, which had received a lower-order boost earlier successful the day.
Resuming astatine 279 for eight, Goa added 76 much runs, batting connected for astir 2 hours successful a frustrating greeting league for the distant side. Wicketkeeper-batter Samar Dubhashi orchestrated the rearguard enactment with an unbeaten 55, marked by dogged resistance.
The scores: Goa — 1st innings: Suyash Prabhudessai c Imran b Ankit 86, Kashyap Bakhale lbw b Ankit 12, Abhinav Tejrana c Nidheesh b Ankit 1, Snehal Kauthankar c Baby b Basil 29, Lalit Yadav c Krishna b Basil 21, Yash Kasvankar b Ankit 50, Darshan Misal c Rohan b Baby 22, Arjun Tendulkar c Krishna b Ankit 36, Samar Dubhashi (not out) 55, Amulya Pandrekar c Baby b Ankit 10, V Koushik c Krishna b Nidheesh 21; Extras: (lb-6, nb-4, w-2): 12; Total (in 110.4 overs): 355.
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-37, 3-92, 4-123, 5-183, 6-221, 7-244, 8-279, 9-304.
Kerala bowling: Nidheesh 20.4-1-73-1, Basil 22-5-73-2, Ankit 46-4-115-6, Sreehari 9-0-35-0, Baby 10-1-37-1, Vishnu 3-0-16-0.
Kerala — 1st innings: Rohan Kunnummal (batting) 132, Abhishek Nair lbw b Pandrekar 32, Sachin Baby c Kauthankar b Lalit 37, Salman Nizar (batting) 25; Extras: (b-8, nb-3): 11; Total (for 2 wkts. successful 58 overs): 237.
Fall of wickets: 1-97, 2-183.
Goa bowling: Arjun 11-1-60-0, Koushik 11-2-31-0, Misal 8-1-41-0, Lalit 16-2-43-1, Pandrekar 9-0-44-1, Kasvankar 3-0-10-0.
