Ranji Trophy 2023-24: Jammu & Kashmir bowls out Pondicherry for 67 in 87-run chase

Left-arm spinner Vanshaj Sharma accomplished a maiden ten-wicket match haul on his debut as Jammu & Kashmir bowled out Pondicherry for 67, in its 87-run chase, to win by 19 runs on day three of the elite Group-D match within the sixth spherical of the Ranji Trophy on the Cricket Association of Pondicherry (CAP) Siechem floor right here on Sunday.

Vanshaj had claimed his maiden five-for (5 for 74) in Pondicherry’s first innings and adopted it up with 5 for 16 within the second.

Left-arm spinner Abid Mushtaq, who accomplished his second ten-wicket match haul (5 for 64, and 5 for 28) in First-Class cricket on Saturday to scale back Pondicherry to 35 for seven, was adjudged the Player-of-the-match.

With this capitulation, Pondicherry’s quarterfinal qualification probabilities look bleak.

Jammu & Kashmir, on the opposite had, has given itself a shot at qualification. With 18 factors, it’s now third-placed in Group-D.

Eleven of Pondicherry’s 32 runs got here off extras on the day the place play lasted solely 12.3 overs.

Pondicherry captain Rohit Damodaran tried to attain as rapidly as potential. He charged at off-spinner Sahil Lotra and hit a 4 to the cow nook boundary within the first over of the day.

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His associate and left-hander Sidak Singh was caught by Qamran Iqbal at quick leg off Vanshaj on the ninth over. Qamran needed to parry and take the catch. In the final ball of that over, Gaurav Yadav was dropped at cowl on zero.

In the tenth over, Rohit performed a paddle sweep off Abid for 4 to the fine-leg boundary.

In the next over, Gaurav edged his shot off Vanshaj, for it to pop up excessive within the air – Lotra took the catch, working in direction of cowl level from gully. In the final ball of that over, Vanshaj pulled out from his supply to warn non-striker Sagar Udeshi for unfairly backing up too far.

Rohit was the final wicket to fall on the thirteenth over, as he charged at Vanshaj and missed the ball to be stumped.

In a match that had the then main wicket-taker of the season Gaurav Yadav and India pacer Umran Malik, pacers bowled solely 4 overs and spinners picked up all of the forty wickets.

The scores:

Jammu & Kashmir – 1st innings: 106.

Pondicherry – 1st innings: 172.

Jammu & Kashmir – 2nd innings: 152.

Pondicherry – 2nd innings: Paras Ratnaparkhe c Abid b Vanshaj 8, Karthikeyan Jayasundaram c Fazil b Abid 1, Paras Dogra lbw b Abid 12, Akash Kargave lbw b Abid 0, Ok.B. Arun Karthick c Shubham Singh b Vanshaj 0, Mohit Mittan b Abid 3, Sidak Singh c Qamran b Vanshaj 7, Krishna Pandey c Vivrant b Abid 6, Rohit Damodaran st Fazil b Vanshaj 17, Gaurav Yadav c Lotra b Vanshaj 0, Sagar Udeshi (not out) 2; Extras (b-8, lb-2, nb-1): 11; Total (all out in 35.3 overs): 67.

Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-11, 3-12, 4-13, 5-22, 6-25, 7-31, 8-56, 9-64, 10-67.

Jammu & Kashmir bowling: Abid 18-5-28-5, Vanshaj 8.3-2-16-5, Lotra 9-4-13-0.

Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com

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