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Karnataka needed to amusement combat connected the last time of its Ranji Trophy Elite Group B fixture against Madhya Pradesh present connected Sunday, if the big was to flight with a draw.
But it was not to be, arsenic a 2nd consecutive batting illness astatine Alur(1) grounds handed Madhya Pradesh a 217-run victory.
The reverse puts Karnataka connected shaky crushed successful the contention to drawback the 2 knockout spots from this group. From being the table-topper, Karnataka (21 points) slipped to 3rd position.
Maharashtra (24 points) and Madhya Pradesh (22 points) moved ahead, leaving Karnataka with plentifulness of enactment to bash successful its past fixture against Punjab.
The time began with Madhya Pradesh adding 25 runs to its overnight total, declaring connected 229 for eight. This near Karnataka with an improbable people of 362 with astir a afloat day’s play left.
The big needed to bat for time, but wickets tumbled astatine regular intervals. Madhya Pradesh spinners Saransh Jain and Sagar Solanki kept a choky leash, picking up 3 wickets each.
Karnataka was further troubled by the lack of Karun Nair, who had divided his webbing portion fielding connected Saturday.
Nikin Jose batted successful Karun’s place, nether the BCCI’s “serious wounded replacement substitute” regularisation which came into effect astatine the commencement of this home season.
Opener K.V. Aneesh (57, 142b, 7x4) played a lone hand, arsenic helium had done successful Karnataka’s archetypal essay. The penning was connected the partition erstwhile Aneesh was the seventh wicket to fall, caught down disconnected pacer Kuldeep Sen.
Nikin (26, 101b, 2x4) grafted hard, until helium was trapped connected the pads by Saransh.
Senior batters Mayank Agarwal (7) and Devdutt Padikkal (0) endured different failure. Skipper Mayank nicked accelerated bowler Aryan Pandey to slip, portion Padikkal registered his 2nd duck of the outing erstwhile helium was bowled successful the aforesaid over.
Vidyadhar Patil (26 not out) could lone hold the inevitable.
The scores: Madhya Pradesh - 1st innings: 323.
Karnataka - 1st innings: 191.
Madhya Pradesh - 2nd innings: Yash Dubey lbw b Shikhar 17, Himanshu Mantri b Shreyas 96, Shubham Sharma b Vidyadhar 32, Rajat Patidar b Vidyadhar 0, Venkatesh Iyer b Shreyas 1, Akshat Raghuwanshi b Shikhar 13, Saransh Jain (retd. hurt) 15, Sagar Solanki lbw b Vidyadhar 13, Aryan Pandey c Mayank b Vidyadhar 18, Kumar Kartikeya (not out) 11; Extras (w-8, b-5): 13; Total (for 8 wkts. decl. successful 75.1 overs): 229.
Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-96, 3-96, 4-99, 5-123, 6-179, 7-212, 8-229.
Karnataka bowling: Kaverappa 14-4-32-0, Vidyadhar 18-5-54-4, Vyshak 11-1-39-0, Shikhar 11-0-41-2, Shreyas 21.1-3-58-2.
Karnataka - 2nd innings: K.V. Aneesh c Mantri b Kuldeep 57, Mayank Agarwal c Akshat b Aryan 7, Devdutt Padikkal b Aryan 0, Nikin Jose (sub) lbw b Saransh 26, Shreyas Gopal b Solanki 1, Abhinav Manohar lbw b Solanki 6, K.L. Shrijith c&b Solanki 0, Vidyadhar Patil (not out) 26, V. Vyshak c&b Kartikeya 8, Shikhar Shetty b Saransh 1, Vidwath Kaverappa b Saransh 0; Extras: (w-1, nb-2, b-5, lb-4): 12; Total (in 67.5 overs): 144.
Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-15, 3-76, 4-77, 5-91, 6-91, 7-114, 8-133, 9-144.
Madhya Pradesh bowling: Aryan 7-4-9-2, Saransh 19.5-4-37-3, Kartikeya 18-6-42-1, Kuldeep 9-1-27-1, Solanki 14-5-20-3.
PoM: Saransh Jain.
