Leg-spinner Jhathavedh Subramanyan picked up 4 for 44 to assist TNCA XI bowl out Kerala for 178 in its second innings and coast to a ten-wicket win within the Group-D match of the Buchi Babu All India invitational cricket match on the India Cement Company floor right here on Thursday.
TNCA XI skipper Shahrukh Khan on Wednesday mentioned that the last-wicket pair will try to accumulate as many runs as attainable, however with solely 14 runs added to the in a single day rating of 344 for 9, the lead lastly stood at 140 runs. It proved to be enough due to the turning level offered by Shahrukh himself.
He selected to bowl himself when a well-set Sachin Baby, having scored a fifty (56, 102b, 6×4) was constructing the fourth-wicket partnership (78 off 169 balls) with Vathsal Govind Sharma (25, 89b) and it appeared TNCA is likely to be hard-stretched for the win.
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Shahrukh additionally took a tremendous slip catch for S. Sachin to be dismissed off leg-spinner Jhathavedh. Jhathavedh who went wicketless within the first innings become the catalyst within the second for the win.
Post-match, the 23-year-old Jhathavedh mentioned: “It was nice to get a win on the board. I felt it was coming out nicely from the hand. That’s always a nice thing. Really happy to have contributed to a win, and to get an outright victory especially, not just the first-innings lead. That’s something that all of us are really happy with.
“It’s nice that he (Shahrukh) picked up that big wicket (Sachin Baby) at that time. Luckily, we could all capitalise on it as well.”
TNCA XI’s Nidhish S. Rajagopal was adjudged the player-of-the-match for his 90 (144b, 10×4, 1×6) within the first innings.
The scores (day three): Kerala 218 & 178 in 59.3 overs (Sachin Baby 56, Jhathavedh Subramanyan 4/44) misplaced to TNCA XI 358 in 107.2 overs (Ok.T.A. Madhava Prasad 72, M. Shahrukh Khan 60, Nidhish S. Rajagopal 90) & 39 for no loss in 7.5 overs.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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