Barely 4 days after crumbling to bits in opposition to Gujarat, Karnataka will look to choose up the items and get again on its toes when it performs Goa in a Ranji Trophy Group-C encounter on the SDNR Wadiyar Stadium beginning Friday.
Chasing a paltry 110 for victory, and at one stage comfortably positioned at 50 for no loss, Karnataka imploded spectacularly to be bowled out for 103. Having already overwhelmed Punjab, it ought to have been a second straight outright win over a fellow quarterfinal contender. Instead, the loss could have triggered a interval of intense soul-searching.
The host must do that with out the injured speedster Prasidh Krishna, who may solely bowl 14.5 first-innings overs to the Gujarat batters on his return from South Africa. With fellow pacer Vidwath Kaverappa away on India-An obligation, M. Venkatesh might play his first First Class tie in his hometown and solely the second of his profession.
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If there was an enormous optimistic from the Gujarat contest, it was captain Mayank Agarwal’s century (109) within the first essay that got here after back-to-back geese versus Punjab. But his deputy Nikin Jose desperately wants runs, having totalled simply 34 runs from 4 innings this marketing campaign. It stays to be seen if opener R. Samarth, who suffered a bout of viral fever in Ahmedabad, is match-fit.
Goa, which misplaced its opening fixture by 237 runs to Tripura, comes into the match after amassing its first factors this version over Chandigarh by advantage of securing the first-innings lead. The likes of Suyash Prabhudessai, Ok.V. Siddharth and Deepraj Gaonkar are among the many runs.
Siddharth, 31, will particularly be eager to carry out, for he’s from Karnataka and was its top-scorer within the 2021-22 season solely to not get a recreation in 2022-23 and depart for greener pastures forward of 2023-24.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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