Ranji Trophy SF: Mayank’s ton retains Karnataka forward on opening day towards Saurashtra

A captain’s knock from Mayank Agarwal (110 batting, 246b, 11×4, 1×6) carried Karnataka to 229 for 5 at stumps on the opening day of its Ranji Trophy semifinal towards Saurashtra on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Wednesday.

On a wicket that sported a beneficiant sprinkling of grass, and underneath circumstances the place the ball swung and seamed all day, Mayank, who misplaced the toss, stood tall, thwarting the visiting pacers to script his fifteenth First Class century. By night he had additionally succeeded in relegating to the again of the thoughts a few of his teammates’ rank mediocrity.

From a dire 112 for 5, Mayank and wicketkeeper Sharath Srinivas (58, 143b, 4×4) mixed for a 117-run partnership for the sixth wicket (279 balls). It wasn’t as if their innings have been chanceless. Mayank was dropped on 13 by Snell Patel at second slip off Prerak Mankad and Sharath may have been run out on 22 if ‘keeper Harvik Desai had collected a throw from the deep properly.

But they capitalised on the reprieves and rebooted their respective innings in a workmanlike fashion. Mayank routinely stepped out to the pacers to smother the swing, especially in the morning session.

A clipped four to the backward square-leg boundary and two drives down the ground were his standout shots early on.

When spin was introduced, as late as the 44th over, Mayank was totally at ease, as one saw from the splendid straight six he hit off left-arm spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja to move into the eighties.

A glorious on-drive took him into the nineties and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than he introduced up his third century of the Ranji Trophy marketing campaign with back-to-back fours off left-arm tweaker Parth Bhut – a sq. drive and a late reduce.

But not an iota of the 31-year-old’s self-discipline and endurance was imbibed by his fellow top-order batters.

Even as Devdutt Padikkal and Nikin Jose fellow to wonderful deliveries that formed away, from Chetan Sakariya and Kushang Patel respectively, R. Samarth slashed at a large supply to be caught within the slips and Manish Pandey tried to heave one recklessly and holed out at mid-wicket.

Shreyas Gopal was torpid in responding to a name for a fast single within the cover-point space and was run out by a direct hit from substitute Samarth Vyas. But a wicket-less last session that fetched 89 runs introduced Karnataka firmly again.

Day 1 scores:

Karnataka – 1st innings: R. Samarth c Vishwarajsinh b Kushang 3, Mayank Agarwal (batting) 110, Devdutt Padikkal c Jackson b Sakariya 9, Nikin Jose c Harvik b Kushang 18, Manish Pandey c Snell b Mankad 7, Shreyas Gopal (run out) 15, Sharath Srinivas (batting) 58.

Extras (b-5, lb-1, nb-3): 9; Total (for 5 wkts in 87 overs): 229.

Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-21, 3-68, 4-79, 5-112.

Saurashtra bowling: Sakariya 17-5-39-1, Kushang 16-0-64-2, Jani 15-5-25-0, Mankad 18-3-42-1, Dharmendrasinh 14-2-28-0, Bhut 7-1-25-0.

Toss: Saurashtra.

Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com

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