N. Jagadeesan has the best particular person rating for Tamil Nadu in List A cricket (277 vs Arunachal Pradesh). On Saturday, the 28-year-old opener etched his title within the file e-book in First-Class cricket once more when he made a superb 321 towards Chandigarh on day two of the Ranji Trophy conflict right here on the Sri Ramakrishna College floor.
Jagadeesan’s feat helped him transfer previous W.V. Raman’s file for the best particular person rating by a Tamil Nadu participant within the format when the previous India opener made 313 towards Goa in 1988.
His 321 (403b, 23×4, 5×6) helped TN amass 610 for 4 in its first innings and ended up with a humongous lead of 499 earlier than the hosts declared in the direction of the fag finish of the day.
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He was well-supported by Pradosh Ranjan Paul (105, 151b, 13×4, 1×6), who accomplished his hundred within the morning session. Later, B. Indrajith (123, 144b, 11×4) additionally helped himself to a different tremendous century as he added 280 runs for the third wicket with Jagadeesan, piling on the distress for the guests.
He began the day’s proceedings by placing away flicking pacer Hartejasvi Kapoor off his pads for straightforward boundaries after which took on the spinners. He bought to his 150, gathering two boundaries off Arpit Singh after which lofted leggie M. Ashwin for a six. After lunch, he introduced his second double-century in as many matches in model by lofting Arpit over long-on.
While the assault was hardly threatening, permitting him to play scintillating photographs to the fence, Jagadeesan confirmed wonderful sport consciousness in turning over the strike and ran exhausting even in the direction of the tip of a protracted, scorching day. In Indrajith, he discovered a companion who was equally at house in working the ball into the gaps, and the duo didn’t break a sweat to maintain the scoreboard ticking.
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Once he bought in, Indrajith lower unfastened with pulls, late cuts and canopy drives towards the spinners to race to his century.
The Chandigarh bowlers seemed flat and didn’t exert management, giving too many unfastened deliveries that had been duly dispatched to the ropes.
The spread-out area and drooped shoulders meant Jagadeesan had no bother surpassing his highest rating and bought to his maiden triple-century with a brace via the off-side to develop into solely the fourth TN batter to enter the 300-club.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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