Gawli, Dubey struggle again after Saini, Mukesh give MP early scare

Madhya Pradesh 112 for 3 (Dubey 53*, Gawli 47, Saini 2-15) path Rest of India 484 (Jaiswal 213, Easwaran 154, Avesh 4-74) by 372 runs

In reply to Rest of India’s (RoI) huge complete of 484, Madhya Pradesh bought off to a shaky begin, as Mukesh struck within the first over getting Arham Aquil to edge behind for a duck. In the subsequent over, Saini induced a thick outdoors edge off Himanshu Mantri’s bat with Dhull at second slip taking an excellent catch. It wasn’t too lengthy earlier than Shubham Sharma walked again to the pavilion after Saini pinned him in entrance, leaving Madhya Pradesh reeling at 15 for 3.

Gawli and Dubey then got here collectively to withstand the RoI bowlers, who had been made to toil with out rewards for the remainder of the day. After a watchful begin, the pair managed to hit just a few boundaries to construct up the rating. Dubey additionally introduced up his half-century with a 4 off Saini to backward level. At stumps, Madhya Pradesh had reached 112 for 3, with Gawli on 47 and Dubey on 53.

At one level, RoI had been cruising in direction of 500 with Dhull going robust at one finish. But with Upendra Yadav’s dismissal, RoI went on to lose their final 5 wickets for 18 runs. Left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya cleaned up Upendra for 14 earlier than Agarwal had Atit Sheth caught behind for a duck on the stroke of lunch. Kartikeya then claimed the important thing scalp of Dhull, who performed down the flawed line to be struck on his again pad. Saini and Pulkit Narang then hit three boundaries mixed to take the full to 484 earlier than Avesh Khan (4 for 74) struck back-to-back to complete the proceedings.