Mayank and Samarth make merry as Karnataka demolishes J&K
Hundreds from Mayank Agarwal and R. Samarth set up Karnataka’s 222run demolition of Jammu & Kashmir in their Vijay Hazare Group C fixture at the Narendra Modi Stadium GroundB here on Thursday.
The opening pair forced the J&K bowling unit into submission with its 267run stand and powered the team to 402 for two.
Unperturbed by the low bounce early on, Mayank took his chances against Rasikh Salam, pocketing three boundaries through the off side. Samarth got going when he made the most of two halftrackers on his pads from Salam, flicking through square leg.
Mayank blunted the spinners in the middle ov
THE SCORES
DGroup A (at Bengaluru): Sikkim 89 in 38.1 overs lost to Mumbai 90/3 in 12 overs.
Saurashtra 185 in 49.1 overs (Vishvaraj Jadeja 98, Akhin Sathar 4/39) lost to Kerala 188/7 in 47.4 overs (Abdul Basith 60, Ankur Panwar 4/50).
Pondicherry 172 in 49.1 overs (Fabid Ahmed 64, Yuvraj Singh 4/25) bt Railways 150 in 45.3 overs (Shivam Chaudhary 63, Abin Mathew 4/41).
Tripura 107 in 29 overs (Debabrata Pradhan 4/14, Biplab Samantray 5/32) lost to Odisha 108/6 in 23.2 / 29 overs (Subranshu Senapati 41).
Group B (at Jaipur): Vidarbha 243/9 in 50 overs (Karun Nair 67, Dippu Sangma 4/43) bt Meghalaya 211 in 48.1 overs (Kishan Lyngdoh 57, Swarajeet Das 44).
Maharashtra 355/4 in 50 overs (Om Dattatreya Bhosale 73,
Mayank and Samarth forced the J&K bowling unit into submission. VIJAY SONEJI
ers, starting with two sixes while dancing down the wicket against Sahil Lotra in the 13th over. Skipper Shubham Khajuria’s ploy to use his range of parttimers bore little to no rewards. His trump card, Umran Malik, failed to dent the run flow either.
Dropped
To rub salt in its wounds, Mayank was put down on 67 by Qamran Iqbal off Ab
Kedar Jadhav 55, Ankit Bawne 107 n.o., Azim Kazi 61) lost to Jharkhand 359/4 in 48 overs
(Virat Singh 143, Saurabh Tiwary 70 n.o., Kumar Kushagara 67 n.o.).
Manipur 203 in 50 overs (Langlongyamba Keishangbam 41, Bikash Singh 41) lost to Hyderabad 208/5 in 29.5 overs (Rahul Singh 70, Chandan Sahani 41).
Services 301/7 in 50 overs (Anshul Gupta 91 n.o., Ravi Chauhan 61, Rajat Paliwal 57, Shubham Singh 4/64) bt Chhattisgarh 261/6 in 48.5 overs (Sanjeet Desai 73, Rishab Tiwari 55, Varun Choudhary 4/37).
Group C (at Ahmedabad): Karnataka 402/2 in 50 overs (Ravikumar Samarth 123, Mayank Agarwal 157, Devdut Padikkal 71 n.o.) bt J&K 180 in 30.4 overs (Yudhvir Singh 67, Vivrant
Sharma 41, Vyshak Vijay Kumar
dul Samad. Making the most of his second life, he completed his century in 104 deliveries. Before Mayank, Samarth got to his century in 97 deliveries.
Samarth was sent packing in the 37th over by Salam’s yorker. But Mayank’s onslaught continued undeterred past 150. Courtesy of Mayank’s heroics and Devdutt Padikkal’s 35ball 71, Karnataka added 128 in the final 10 overs.
Group D (at Chandigarh): Andhra 206 in 47.3 overs (Nitish Kumar Reddy 47, Manish Golamaru 46) lost to Himachal 212/3 in 43.3 overs (Amit Kumar 78 n.o., Akash Vasisht 53). Rajasthan 347/8 in 50 overs (Deepak Hooda 114, Manav Suthar 41, Deepak Chahar 66 n.o., Naban Tago Abo 4/55) bt
The only phase when J&K’s reply looked on course was during Vivrant Sharma’s counterattack in the PowerPlay. After opener Iqbal fell in the fourth over, Vivrant took the initiative by playing across the line against pacers to take his team to 60 for one.
The momentum won by him was snatched back by Vyshak Vijaykumar when he sent Khajuriya’s off stump cartwheeling to break the 58run secondwicket stand. In his next over, he removed Henan Nazir and Samad in the space of three deliveries to strangle J&K.
Vivrant’s defiance broke against J. Suchith who induced an error to castle the southpaw on 41 before Krishnappa Gowtham prised out two in the 22nd over. No. 9 Yudhvir Singh’s 39ball 64 was something to cheer for J&K but it merely delayed the inevitable before the side folded up for 180.
Arunachal 186 in 46.2 overs (Aprameya V. Jaiswal 53, Rahul Chahar 5/34).
Gujarat 320/8 in 50 overs (Het Patel 44, Kshitij 49, Saurav Chauhan 108 n.o., Chiraj Gandhi 74) bt Assam 284/9 in 47.1 overs (Denish Das 54, Sumit Ghadigaonkar 49, Sibsankar Roy 42).
Group E (at Mumbai): Baroda 214/9 in 50 overs (Krunal Pandya 49, Shivalik Sharma 51, Baltej Singh 4/27) bt Punjab 211 in 49 overs (Nehal Wader 49, Siddarth Kaul 47).
Goa 272/9 in 50 overs (Suyash Prabhudessai 56, Rahul Tripathi 92, Darshan Misal 66) lost to Madhya Pradesh 273/3 in 39.4 overs (Himanshu Mantri 127 n.o., Rajat Patidar 64).
Nagaland 139 in 47 overs lost to Bengal 143/1 in 18.5 overs (Sudip Kumar Gharami 62, Abhimanyu Eshwaran 57 n.o.).