Himachal Pradesh’s all-round present towards Pondicherry helped bag its first win of the Ranji Trophy season right here on the Siachem Stadium on Sunday.
With the win, Himachal additionally confirmed its place within the Elites for subsequent 12 months after pocketing seven factors to remain away from relegation to the Plate Group.
Spinners Gurvinder Singh, taking part in his final First-Class sport, and Mayank Dagar mixed to take 14 wickets throughout the 2 innings as Himachal bowled out the host for 198 after imposing a follow-on, profitable its last Group ‘D’ fixture by an innings and 63 runs with 4 extra classes left within the sport.
Himachal had Pondicherry on the backfoot coming into the third day. Despite opener Akash Kargave on the crease, the host had misplaced seven wickets in a single day.
Akash reached his century within the first over of the day however Himachal bundled out Pondicherry inside half-hour. The guests then requested Pondicherry to bat once more after taking a 261-run first innings lead.
Openers Akash and Paras Ratnaparkhe began with a constructive intent, scoring almost at 4 runs an over. However, Mayank eliminated Paras and two balls later, Mukul Negi received Akash out.
Then Paras Dogra and Parameeswaran dug in to attempt to make a sport for the group. Pitch had flip however wasn’t unplayable. Just when the duo regarded set, Akash Vashisht eliminated Paras with Ravi Thakur taking an excellent low catch at foolish level.
Pondicherry fell like a pack of playing cards within the post-lunch session: from 81/3 to 157/9. Gaurav Yadav then determined to have enjoyable and flexed his muscle groups to hit six big maximums. He was finally cleaned up by Mayank, who accomplished his five-wicket haul.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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