Ranji Trophy Final: Jammu and Kashmir team, which reached the final of Ranji Trophy for the first time, is not far away from creating history. By the fourth day of this match being played at KSCA Hubli Ground in Hubli, the team has made a strong hold on the match. At the same time, Karnataka’s problems seem to be increasing continuously.
After winning the toss and batting first, Jammu and Kashmir team scored a huge score of 584 runs in the first innings. In this big lead of the team, Sahil Lotra played an important inning of 72 runs, while Yudhveer Singh Charak also made useful contributions and took the team to a strong position. Batting for almost 180 overs, Jammu and Kashmir had completely tired the Karnataka bowlers.
Karnataka’s start got spoiled due to Auqib Nabi’s deadly bowling.
In reply, the Karnataka team, which came to bat, had a very bad start. Jammu and Kashmir’s fast bowler Auqib Nabi shocked the top order by bowling brilliantly. He pushed Karnataka on the backfoot by quickly dismissing Indian team’s star batsman KL Rahul along with Karun Nair and Smrana Ravichandran.
Apart from this, Sunil Kumar further increased Karnataka’s troubles by taking the wicket of Devdutt Padikkal. After this, captain Mayank Agarwal tried to control the team by scoring a brilliant century at one end, but Aaqib Nabi stopped him at 160 runs and showed the way to the pavilion. Till the time of writing the news, Vijay Kumar and Prasidh Krishna are fighting to keep the team in the match.
Jammu and Kashmir is in a strong position
Till the first session of the fourth day, Karnataka has scored 288 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 92 overs, but the team is still 296 runs behind Jammu and Kashmir. In such a situation, the balance of the match currently seems to be tilted towards Jammu and Kashmir.
