Ranji Trophy | Saurashtra drubs Punjab inside two days

Saurashtra’s lower-order, led by Prerak Mankad and Ravindra Jadeja, roseate to the occasion, portion left-arm spinners Dharmendra Jadeja and Parth Bhut outshone their much celebrated elder to publication a crushing 194-run triumph implicit Punjab and support the location side’s Ranji Trophy run alive.

Powered by a singular 211 runs added by the past 5 wickets connected a turning track, Saurashtra acceptable Punjab a daunting people of 320 astatine the Niranjan Shah Stadium ‘C’ ground.

The visitors past capitulated for the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore days, folding up for 125 against the close rotation of Dharmendra (five for 55) and Bhut (five for eight). The lucifer ended with 25 minutes to spare connected the 2nd day.

Resuming the greeting astatine 24 for 3 successful its 2nd innings, nightwatcher Dharmendra and Vasavada, playing his 100th First Class match, negotiated the archetypal hr earlier some perished successful speedy succession.

At 75 for five, Punjab sensed an opening. However, Prerak and Jadeja turned the crippled connected its caput with a counter-attacking 92-run basal disconnected conscionable 73 balls. While Jadeja (46, 44b, 4x4) rotated the onslaught with ease, Prerak (56, 41b, 10x4) recovered gaps astatine will. His 3 fours successful a Harpreet Brar implicit — a expanse followed by 2 reverse-sweeps — underlined the displacement successful momentum.

Even aft the basal was broken, utile contributions from Hetvik Kotak, Parth Bhut and skipper Jaydev Unadkat swelled the pb beyond Punjab’s reach.

Punjab’s effect with the bat lacked composure. Apart from Uday Saharan, nary of the visitors showed the patience required connected a wearing surface. The transportation was acold from unplayable; yet Punjab’s batters repeatedly fell to ill-judged expanse shots. Half the broadside — including opener Prabhsimran Singh and skipper Shubman Gill — were either bowled oregon trapped lbw aft missing the horizontal-bat shot.

Gill’s dismissal connected the changeable of beverage triggered a accelerated collapse. Dharmendra and Bhut past ran done the lower-order, claiming six wickets for conscionable 15 runs, to seal an emphatic triumph for Saurashtra.

The scores: Saurashtra – 1st innings: 172.

Punjab – 1st innings: 139.

Saurashtra – 2nd innings: Harvik Desai c Anmolpreet b Harpreet 6, Chirag Jani c Harnoor b Harpreet 5, Dharmendra Jadeja b Harpreet 27, Jay Gohil b Jass 8, Arpit Vasavada c Sanvir b Jass 23, Ravindra Jadeja lbw b Jass 46, Prerak Mankad 56, Sammar Gajjar b Dutta 17, Hetvik Kotak b Dutta 39, Parth Bhut (not out) 37, Jaydev Unadkat c Anmolpreet b Harpreet 14; Total (in 58.5 overs): 286.

Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-15, 3-24, 4-69, 5-75, 6-167, 7-191, 8-193, 9-247.

Punjab bowling: Harpreet 25.5-2-104-5, Dutta 15-1-86-2, Jass 16-2-84-3, Wadhera 2-0-4-0.

Punjab – 2nd innings: Harnoor Singh c Harvik b Dharmendra 18, Prabhsimran Singh b Dharmendra 17, Uday Saharan st. (sub) b Bhut 31, Shubman Gill lbw b Bhut 14, Nehal Wadhera c Vasavada b Bhut 8, Anmolpreet Singh 1, Krish Bhagat (not out) 17, Sanvir Singh c Unadkat b Bhut 0, Harpreet Brar b Bhut 0, Prerit Dutta c Vasavada b Dharmendra 7, Jass Inder c Jadeja b Dharmendra 12; Total (in 39 overs): 125.

Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-48, 3-78, 4-86, 5-87, 6-91, 7-91, 8-91, 9-113.

Saurashtra bowling: Unadkat 2-0-9-0, Jadeja 10-0-41-0, Dharmendra 15-3-55-5, Bhut 10-4-8-5, Gajjar 2-0-12-0.