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Carrying the thrill of a tug-of-war contest, the Ranji Trophy semifinal lucifer astatine the Bengal Cricket Academy crushed present remained nicely balanced connected the 2nd time arsenic Jammu & Kashmir relied connected Abdul Samad and skipper Paras Dogra’s commendable half-centuries to enactment up a beardown combat against Bengal connected Monday.
Resuming from 249 for five, Bengal was each retired for 328 successful its archetypal innings.
In reply, J & K recovered from 13 for 3 to adjacent astatine 198 for 5 to way by 130 runs.
J & K gait ace Auqib Nabi’s relentlessness and execution of skills earned him 3 much wickets and his 15th five-for. He scalped overnight centurion Sudip Gharami, who shouldered arms to beryllium adjudged lbw, aft J & K took the 2nd caller shot and went connected to claim Akash Deep and Mohammed Shami.
Sumanta Gupta played immoderate cracking shots to propulsion Bengal past 300.
Disastrous start
J & K had a disastrous commencement as Shami ran successful hard, recovered bully areas and worked up gait to unafraid lbw decisions against openers Shubham Khajuria and Yawer Hassan.
Mukesh Kumar dismissed Shubham Pundir immediately aft luncheon to trim J & K to 13 for three.
Nevertheless, Samad and Dogra’s spirited 143-run concern accrued Bengal’s anxiety.
Samad, dropped by ‘keeper Shakir Gandhi connected 34 off Mukesh, displayed his flair and impressed with his cuts, punches and drives. Seasoned pro Dogra patiently held 1 extremity contempt receiving immoderate blows and showcased his handsome drives.
Bengal regained crushed with Shami striking successful the archetypal implicit of his 2nd spell as Samad hit consecutive to extra-cover.
Dogra, who was declared lbw disconnected a no-ball and became the 2nd antheral after Wasim Jaffer to people 10,000 Ranji runs during his knock, ill-timed Mukesh to heavy square-leg sooner than later.
Abid Mushtaq and Kanhaiya Wadhawan stood steadfast to support J & K successful the fight.
The scores: Bengal —1st innings: Abhimanyu Easwaran b Nabi 49, Sudip Chatterjee c Pundir b Sunil 0, Sudip Gharami lbw b Nabi 146, Suraj Jaiswal c Wadhawan b Nabi 0, Anustup Majumdar lbw b Abid 14, Shahbaz Ahmed lbw b Sunil 42, Shakir Habib Gandhi lbw b Sunil 4, Sumanta Gupta c Abid b Yudhvir 39, Akash Deep lbw b Nabi 7, Mohammed Shami c Vanshaj b Nabi 1, Mukesh Kumar (not out) 11; Extras (lb-7, nb-6, w-2): 15; Total (in 97.1 overs): 328.
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-89, 3-89, 4-155, 5-249, 6-269, 7-269, 8-298, 9-306.
Jammu & Kashmir bowling: Nabi 26-6-87-5, Sunil 20-8-41-3, Yudhvir 18.1-70-1 Abid 19-3-82-1, Vanshaj 11-1-34-0, Samad 3-0-7-0.
Jammu & Kashmir — 1st innings: Shubham Khajuria lbw b Shami 3, Yawer Hassan lbw b Shami 2, Shubham Singh Pundir c Chatterjee b Mukesh 8, Paras Dogra c Jaiswal b Mukesh 58, Abdul Samad c Akash b Shami 82, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (batting) 10, Abid Mushtaq (batting) 26; Extras (b-2, lb-5, nb-2): 9; Total (for five wkts. successful 51 overs): 198.
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-13, 3-13, 4-156, 5-156.
Bengal bowling: Shami 13-2-60-3, Mukesh 13-2-40-2, Akash 9-0-33-0, Jaiswal 8-1-39-0, Shahbaz 8-0-19-0.
