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Saurashtra thrash Punjab
Siddharth Trivedi grabbed a hat-trick as Saurashtra crushed Punjab by an innings and 144 runs to register their first Group A win in the Ranji Trophy Elite division here on Sunday.
Trivedi dismissed Karan Goel (10), Punjab captain Harbhajan Singh (0) and Manpreet Singh Gony (0) in succession as the hosts crumbled to 120 in 44.5 overs while following on.
Punjab had been bundled out for 278 in the first essay in reply to Saurashtra’s mammoth 542.
Reduced to 43 for four overnight, Punjab kept losing wickets at short intervals and never managed to build a partnership that could salvage a draw for them.
The fall of wickets started quite early when Mandeep Singh (1) was dismissed by Sandip Maniar, who had picked up three scalps on Saturday itself.
Maniar rounded off with overall figures of 4/47 from 18 overs, three of them maiden.
An unbeaten 54-ball 41 from Amitoze Singh was the only highlights of the Punjab second innings scoreboard, which featured three ducks.
Brief Scores:
Saurashtra: 542 beat Punjab: 278 and 120 all out in 44.5 overs (A Singh 41 batting, S Maniar 4 for 47, S Trivedi 3 for 34) by an inings and 144 runs.
3 points for k’taka
Mumbai: Abhishek Nayar was left stranded on 191 as Karnataka dismissed Mumbai for 441 to take a huge 194-run first innings lead and earn three points from their drawn Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match.
Mumbai resumed at 354 for eight and only interest left in the match was if they could avoid the follow on.
Mumbai fell short of the target by 43 runs even as Nayar and Ankit Chavan (32) put up a fighting 86-run stand for the last wicket.
Left-handed batsman Nayar, who was retired hurt on 137 on Saturday and resumed his innings on Sunday, had a marathon stay of 418 minutes at the crease. In all he faced 302 balls and struck 24 fours and a six.
However, with there being little chance of the Karnataka bowling out Mumbabi on a near-perfect batting track, the visitors did not enforce the follow on. Karnataka then made 147 for three in their second essay before the match was called off as a draw.
Karnataka now have 12 points and are sitting atop the group while Mumbai, who got one point from the draw, took their tally to 10 from three ties.
Brief Scores:
Karnataka: 635 for 9 declared and 147 for 3 (K B Pawan 57) drew with Mumbai: 441 (A Nayar 191 batting, R Sharma 64 S Binny 3 for 27, A 2 for 100). Match drawn
Parvinder hits double
Sambalpur: Parvinder Singh struck a double hundred and shared an unbroken 267-run fifth wicket stand with Arish Alam as Uttar Pradesh forced a draw against Orissa in their Ranji Trophy Elite (Group A) match.
Parvinder’s 202 off 331 balls and Alam’s unbeaten 118 off 222 deliveries ensured that Uttar Pradesh end the fourth and final day at 590 for four in 194.5 overs in reply to Orissa’s first innings 482.
The first innings lead gave Uttar Pradesh three points while Orissa got one.
Overnight 287 for three, Uttar Pradesh lost just one wicket on Sunday when Prashant Gupta departed one short of a half century. Basant Mohanty was the lucky Orissa bowler who celebrated a wicket when he trapped Gupta LBW. Odisha bowlers didn’t have anything to show as Parvinder and Alam sent them on a leather hunt. Mohanty was the most successful of them, grabbing two wickets for 104 runs after toiling for 40 overs.
Brief Scores:
Odisha: 482 drew with
UP: 590 for 4 in 194.5 overs (P Singh 202 batting, A Alam 118 batting).
