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Hyderabad woke up to Monday greeting blues — and it lone got worse. Jammu & Kashmir wasted nary clip asserting dominance, taking a commanding 324-run lead, powered by Abdul Samad (76 batting, 134b, 6x4, 4x6) and Kanhaiya Wadhwan’s (82 batting, 98b, 10x4, 1x6) unbroken 148-run fifth-wicket basal connected time 2 of the Ranji Trophy clash astatine the JKCA Sports Hostel & Science Ground.
Resuming the day, J&K needed conscionable 11.2 overs to disregard Hyderabad’s process for a paltry 121, sealing a important 49-run first-innings lead.
Opener Qamran Iqbal made his intentions wide from the outset successful the 2nd essay, taking connected the pacers with flair. He recovered the obstruction 4 times disconnected pacer Kartikeya Kak and whipped Rakshann Readdi doubly arsenic J&K raced past 50.
Hyderabad struck backmost erstwhile Kartikeya castled the different opener, Shubham Khajuria, but Vivrant Sharma, taking a cue from Iqbal, played with confidence. The duo kept the scoreboard ticking, pushing their side’s pb past 100.
Just arsenic Iqbal reached his half-century, Rakshann trapped him plumb, breaking the 45-run second-wicket stand. Skipper Paras Dogra fell soon after, becoming Rakshann’s 2nd victim.
Vivrant and Abdul Samad maintained the intensity, consistently uncovering the fence. Samad, successful particular, targeted left-arm spinners, Aniketh Reddy and Tanay Thyagarajann, sending them implicit cattle country astatine will. Vivrant’s brisk innings ended successful brilliance astatine gaffe arsenic Tanmay Agarwal dived debased to pluck a crisp catch, aft which Samad and Wadhwan seamlessly took over.
Earlier, the eighth shot of the greeting produced a wicket erstwhile again — this clip for J&K. Sunil Kumar’s scorching transportation disturbed Aniketh’s furniture, and moments later, Tanay poked astatine 1 extracurricular disconnected for a elemental caught-behind. The procession continued arsenic Rakshann had nary reply to a swinging transportation from Auqib Nabi, and Sunil returned to flatten Kartikeya’s stumps, completing his maiden five-wicket haul successful First-Class cricket. Hyderabad present stares astatine a daunting situation successful the days ahead.
The scores: Jammu and Kashmir — 1st innings: 170.
Hyderabad — 1st innings: Tanmay Agarwal c Nazir c Nabi 0, Abhirath Reddy c Lotra b Nabi 5, Rahul Singh c Wadhwan b Sunil 48, K. Himateja tally retired 0, Nitish Reddy c Nazir b Nabi 3, Rahul Radesh b Sunil 7, Tanay Thyagarajann c Wadhwan b Sunil 16, Aniketh Reddy b Sunil 3, Rakshann Readdi c Wadhwan b Nabi 11, Kartikeya Kak b Sunil 10, B. Punnaiah (n.o.) 0; Extras (nb-3, b-7, lb-8): 18; Total (in 39.2 overs): 121.
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-15, 3-16, 4-42, 5-51, 6-81, 7-90, 8-107, 9-117.
Jammu and Kashmir bowling: Nabi 16-1-39-4, Nazir 8-1-28-0, Sunil 13.2-3-29-5, Lotra 2-0-10-0.
Jammu and Kashmir — 2nd innings: Qamran Iqbal lbw b Rakshann 50, Shubham Khajuria b Kartikeya 5, Vivrant Sharma c Tanmay b Tanay 45, Paras Dogra b Rakshann 5, Abdul Samad (batting) 77, Kanhaiya Wadhwan (batting) 82; Extras (b-9, lb-2) 11; Total (for 4 wkts. successful 71 overs): 275.
Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-81, 3-95, 4-127.
Hyderabad bowling: Punnaiah 8-2-33-0, Kartikeya 14-1-58-1, Tanay 19-3-70-1, Rakshann 14-1-56-2, Aniketh 15-0-45-0, Himateja 1-0-2-0.
