Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023-24: Kaul’s fifer trumps Karthik’s preventing knock as Punjab ends Tamil Nadu’s successful streak

Jersey No. 19 turned out to be the flavour of the day on the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy. In a battle of each the veterans with the identical jerseys, Siddharth Kaul, the Punjab pacer, outshone Tamil Nadu captain Dinesh Karthik to assist Punjab hold its qualification hopes alive from Group E of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

In a gap spell of 6-0-35-4, Kaul snared a wicket every in 4 successive overs to provide Punjab the higher hand whereas defending a complete of 251. Karthik, taking guard at 40 for 4 within the ninth over, then performed the lone hand with a trademark 93 (82b, 13×4, 4×6) to provide Tamil Nadu an out of doors probability.

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However, Kaul got here again to jag one again and take away the middle-and-leg stump bail to make sure 4 important factors for Punjab and finish Tamil Nadu’s unbeaten run.

The chase by no means actually took off for Tamil Nadu because the top-order staged a meek give up but once more. While Kaul was correct to see off each the openers in a rush, B. Aparajith and Vijay Shankar gave Ramandeep Singh catching follow at brief midwicket.

Just when Karthik and Indrajith regarded to get the innings on monitor, left-arm spinner Prerit Dutta dismissed Indrajith (stumped after being drawn ahead with one which turned barely) and Shahrukh Khan (bowled off an arm ball) off successive balls to go away Karthik an excessive amount of to do.

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Earlier within the morning, Prabhsimran Singh and Abhishek Sharma went after the Tamil Nadu pacers to provide Punjab a quickfire begin. The duo’s 80-run affiliation – earlier than Abhishek (38, 23b, 4×4, 2×6) received out to R. Sai Kishore after spin was launched within the fifth over – ended within the eighth over.

Varun Chakravarthy bambloozled Prabhsimran (58, 39b, 7×4, 3×6) to finish his harmful knock by trapping him in entrance of the wickets within the thirteenth over. The TN spin trio then managed the center overs to perfection as Tamil Nadu clawed its means again into the sport.

Just when captain Mandeep Singh seemed to be working out companions, Kaul got here to the rescue because the duo’s important 59-run affiliation for the ninth wicket meant Punjab was finally bowled out for 251 within the forty sixth over.