Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), playing the Ranji Trophy final for the first time, made a big score of 584 runs in its first innings, tiring Karnataka’s bowlers badly. Jammu and Kashmir, batting first in the ongoing final in Hubli, defeated Karnataka by scoring a big score with the help of half-centuries from 4 batsmen including captain Paras Dogra after Shubham Pundir’s brilliant century. On the third day of the match, Karnataka finally put brakes on this innings and experienced fast bowler Prasidh Krishna played an important role in this, who single-handedly took 5 wickets of Pakistan.
on thursday ranji final On the third day, J&K progressed their first innings with a score of 527 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. It seemed that the team would easily cross the 600-run mark. But on the third day, 2 wickets fell within 7 overs and both these victims were taken by the tall fast bowler Prasidh Krishna. Prasidh, who proved to be Karnataka’s most effective bowler in the first two days, led the team to success this time too.
Took 5 wickets for the fourth time in his career
Prasidh Krishna, a part of the Indian Test team, completed his 5 wickets by dismissing Aaqib Nabi and made this final memorable for himself. He had to work very hard for this and the J&K batsmen troubled all the Karnataka bowlers a lot but Krishna died after taking 5 wickets. This is only the fourth time in first class cricket that he has taken 5 dismissals in an innings. In his spell of 34.1 overs, this fast bowler gave 98 runs and took 5 wickets. He was the second bowler to bowl the most overs in this innings. Only Shikhar Shetty bowled more than him and bowled 37 overs.
Jammu batsmen looted a lot of runs
On the other hand, for Jammu and Kashmir, Sahil Lotra was handling the innings and was taking the team close to 600 runs. But on the team’s score of 573 runs, Sahil was dismissed by Vijaykumar Vaishak and then soon Jammu and Kashmir’s innings ended at 584 runs. For him, apart from Shubham Pundir (121), who scored a century on the first day, captain Paras Dogra (70), Sahil Lotra (72), Kanhaiya Wadhawan (70) and Abdul Samad (61) also scored half-centuries.