Rahul misses ton, Karnataka get 3 points
Bengaluru, Nov. 12: Opener K.L. Rahul (92) missed out on a century after Abhimanyu Mithun orchestrated Delhi’s fall with a five-wicket haul as Karnataka earned three points on the basis of their first innings in the Group A Ranji Trophy match, which ended in a draw, here on Sunday.
Karnataka strengthened their top position on the table, taking their tally to 23 while Delhi are second at 17. Batting first, Karnataka had amassed a mammoth total of 649 in the first innings with Mayank Agarwal’s 176 and Stuart Binny’s 118.
In reply, Delhi were bowled out for 301, conceding 348 runs lead to Karnataka after Mithun ripped through the batting line-up, bagging five wickets for 70 runs.
Resuming at their overnight 277/4, Delhi collapsed like a pack of cards, just adding 24 runs, with Mithun being the chief wrecker.
Gautam Gambhir and Dhruv Shorey, who scored 144 and 64 respectively, lent some respectability to the Delhi score. Rest of the batsmen except Rishabh Pant (41) failed to put up any resistance against the Karnataka bowlers.
Mithun picked up four wickets including the prized wicket of Gambhir. He had claimed wicket of Shorey on Saturday.
Vinay Kumar picked up Navdeep Saini’s wicket who scored 4. Stuart Binny and Krishnappa Gowtham bagged two and a wicket, respectively.
In their second innings, Karnataka put on a total of 235/3 before the stumps were drawn for the final time.