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Sonu Yadav’s maiden five-for (five for 30) dismantled Odisha for 148, handing Tamil Nadu a 138-run first-innings pb connected time 2 of their Elite Group A sixth-round Ranji Trophy lucifer astatine the KIIT Stadium present connected Friday. The visiting broadside extended the pb to 164 astatine stumps arsenic it reached 26 for 1 successful the 2nd essay.
Sonu and Gurjapneet Singh settled into a metronomic rhythm, 7 choky overs apiece successful their opening spell, turning question into menace and patience into unit until flight felt improbable.
Odisha slid to 21 for 5 wrong 62 balls.
Wickets arrived not successful a flurry but successful sequence, arsenic certainties. On a aboveground that rewarded discipline, the 2 quicks did not pursuit magic — they allowed it to aboveground naturally, 1 probing spell feeding the other, until the top-order laic spent and the greeting belonged wholly to them.
Sonu made the stumps his address. The nip-backer, his calling card, accounted for opener Swastik Samal, skipper Subhranshu Senapati and Govinda Poddar each trapped leg-before — bats misaligned, pads exposed, each betrayed by movement. For a change, helium rattled Biplab Samantaray’s off-stump, beating the extracurricular edge.
Tall, upright, and extracting bounce from a precocious merchandise point, Gurjapneet hovered conscionable extracurricular off, causing doubt. Over aft over, helium teased the edge, contented to wait. The reward arrived successful his sixth, Shantanu Mishra feathering 1 done to the keeper.
Even erstwhile the first-change bowler came on, the unit refused to lift. Trilok Nag slipped seamlessly into the script, drafting Rajesh Dhuper into a escaped thrust extracurricular off. Another edge, different catch, and by luncheon Tamil Nadu had translated a compliant greeting into six wickets — the conditions honoured, the subject rewarded.
Anil Parida (56) and Sambit Baral (36) offered a spot of absorption arsenic Tamil Nadu could lone negociate 2 wickets successful the 2nd session. Ajitesh took a smarting drawback disconnected Baral’s slug borderline astatine 3rd gaffe disconnected Trilok, and left-arm spinner Vidyuth castled Debabrata Pradhan.
Post tea, Sonu completed his five-for, Parida nicking done to the keeper, aft Rajesh Mohanty holed retired to long-on disconnected Vidyuth.
The scores: Tamil Nadu — 1st innings: S.R. Athish c Dhuper b Debabrata 50, N. Jagadeesan b Mohanty 7, P. Vidyuth c Shantanu b Mohanty 12, Pradosh Ranjan Paul c (sub) Prasant b Baral 78, Andre Siddarth c (sub) Roul b Poddar 56, G. Ajitesh st. Dhuper b Samantaray 0, Nidhish Rajagopal b Debabrata 54, Sonu Yadav c Samantaray b Poddar 8, Sai Kishore c Poddar b Mohanty 12, Gurjapneet Singh (not out) 0, Trilok Nag b Debabrata 1; Extras (lb-7, nb-1): 8; Total (in 86 overs): 286.
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-46, 3-111, 4-182, 5-183, 6-234, 7-252, 8-281, 9-281.
Odisha bowling: Mohanty 18-6-51-3, Debabrata 19-4-37-3, Baral 13-2-35-1, Poddar 16-0-85-2, Samantaray 11-0-29-1, Badal 9-2-42-0.
Odisha — 1st innings: Swastik Samal lbw b Sonu 1, Shantanu Mishra c Jagadeesan b Gurjapneet 6, Subhranshu Senapati lbw b Sonu 12, Govinda Poddar lbw b Sonu 0, Biplab Samantaray b Sonu 1, Anil Parida c Jagadeesan b Sonu 56, Rajesh Dhuper c Jagadeesan b Trilok 8, Sambit Baral c Ajitesh b Trilok 36, Debabrata Pradhan b Vidyuth 15, Rajesh Mohanty c Trilok b Vidyuth 6, Badal Biswal (not out) 0; Extras (b-4, lb-2, w-1): 7; Total (in 51.2 overs): 148.
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-15, 3-15, 4-21, 5-21, 6-43, 7-100, 8-132, 9-138.
Tamil Nadu bowling: Gurjapneet 15-3-37-1, Sonu 14.2-4-30-5, Trilok 9-2-36-2, Sai Kishore 9-2-27-0, Vidyuth 4-1-12-2.
Tamil Nadu — 2nd innings: S.R. Athish (batting) 12, N. Jagadeesan lbw b Baral 4, P. Vidyuth (batting) 7; Extras (lb-2, nb-1): 3; Total (for 1 wkt successful 17 overs): 26.
Fall of wicket: 1-17.
Odisha bowling: Mohanty 6-3-9-0, Debabrata 6-1-7-0, Baral 4-1-3-1, Poddar 1-0-5-0.
