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If the penultimate time had the play of a emblematic Bollywood thriller, the finale turned retired to beryllium a tame climax. Karnataka, choosing information implicit adventure, batted retired the last time to unafraid a gully — with Mayank Agarwal’s century and Abhinav Manohar’s near-miss, the lone moments of enactment successful an different dull decorativeness to the Ranji Trophy Group B clash against Maharashtra astatine the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium connected Tuesday.
Mayank (103, 249b, 8x4, 1x6) and Abhinav, who made a fluent 96 (161, 11x4, 2x6), shared a 92-run basal that ensured Karnataka’s slender 13-run first-innings pb remained decisive. When the teams shook hands for an aboriginal tea, Karnataka had reached 302 for eight, contented to locomotion distant with 3 points portion Maharashtra settled for one.
Starting the time astatine 144 for five, Karnataka appeared vulnerable. Maharashtra sensed a accidental to technologist a chase, but Mayank and Abhinav defied them with patience and precision. The brace adopted a cautious attack against tweakers Jalaj Saxena and Vicky Ostwal, grinding retired runs connected a dilatory aboveground that offered small assistance to the bowlers.
Mayank survived an aboriginal leg-before shout, portion wicketkeeper Saurabh Nawale missed a stumping accidental off Abhinav — 2 moments that tilted the greeting league successful Karnataka’s favour. Once Mayank reached his 19th First Class 100 earlier missing a flick off offie Siddhesh Veer, immoderate hopes of a Maharashtra resurgence faded.
With Karnataka showing nary urgency to accelerate, the crippled drifted. Abhinav opened up briefly, hitting 3 boundaries off Rajneesh Gurbani, but perished 4 abbreviated of a century, offering Ostwal a instrumentality drawback portion trying to loft him straight.
With the visitors successful control, Maharashtra didn’t property hard, resting Mukesh Choudhary, who didn’t vessel connected the last day. In the end, Karnataka’s cautious attack paid off, securing 3 points, portion Maharashtra were near ruing the slender shortage successful the archetypal innings.
The scores:
Karnataka – 1st innings: 313.
Maharashtra – 1st innings: 300.
Karnataka – 2nd innings: Aneesh K.V. c Arshin b Ostwal 17, Mayank Agarwal b Veer 103, K.L. Shrijith b Choudhary 29, Karun Nair c Ghosh b Choudhary 15, R. Smaran lbw b Choudhary 4, Abhilash Shetty lbw b Saxena 4, Abhinav Manohar c & b Ostwal 96, Shreyas Gopal (not out) 24, Venkatesh M. c Nawale b Gurbani 4, Mohsin Khan (not out) 0. Extras (b-9, lb-2, nb-1, w-1): 13; Total (for eight wkts. successful 110 overs): 309.
Fall of wickets: 1-50, 2-98, 3-131, 4-135, 5-144, 6-236, 7-302, 8-309.
Maharashtra bowling: Choudhary 18-2-70-3, Ghosh 11-1-32-0, Saxena 31-3-84-1, Ostwal 33-16-49-2, Gurbani 8-0-34-1, Veer 9-2-29-1.
Result: Match drawn; Player of the Match: Shreyas Gopal.
