Captain Mayank Agarwal’s unbeaten century helped Karnataka get better from a shaky begin to submit 229 for 5 towards Saurashtra within the Ranji Trophy semi-final right here on Wednesday.
Sent in to bat, Karnataka had been in some bother, shedding half their crew for 112 runs in 40.3 overs.
But opener Agarwal (110 not out) held one finish and took the innings ahead with an unbeaten 117-run partnership for the sixth wicket with wicketkeeper Srinivas Sharath (58 not out).
Karnataka scored their runs in 87 overs earlier than the umpires known as stumps for the primary day’s proceedings.
Agarwal’s affected person knock got here off 246 balls, throughout which he hit 11 fours and a six, whereas Sharath confronted 143 balls throughout his unbeaten innings and hit 4 fours within the course of.
Right-arm medium pacer Kushang Patel picked up two wickets, whereas Chetan Sakaria and Prerak Mankad dismissed one Karnataka batsman every. The second wicket fell as a run out.
Karnataka didn’t begin properly as that they had opener Ravikumar Samarth caught by Vishvaraj Jadeja off Patel within the sixth over.
The new man in Devdutt Padikkal didn’t final lengthy, caught by Sheldon Jackson off Sakaria off the opening ball of the ninth over.
Agarwal and Nikin Jose (18) shared a 47-run partnership for the subsequent wicket, earlier than Nikin Jose (18) dismissed Harvik Desai behind the stumps within the twenty ninth over off Patel.
Manish Pandey did not bother the scorers a lot, scalping Mankad and later Shreyas Gopal (15) was run out as Karnataka had been bundled out for 112 for five.
But Agarwal and Sharath joined arms and performed neatly with out taking any possibilities to forestall Saurashtra from progressing.
Abbreviated Score:
Karnataka: 229 for five in 87 overs (Mayank Agarwal 110 batting, Srinivas Sharath 58 batting; Kushang Patel 2/64).
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
