medium fast bowler Mukesh Kumar Troubled Saurashtra first with some high quality swing bowling Sarfaraz Khan He continued his dream with a lucrative century to put Rest of India in the driver’s seat on the opening day of the Irani Trophy match on Saturday. At stumps, Sarfaraz’s unbeaten 125 off 126 balls followed Mukesh’s swing and quick pace from the young guns to take Rest of India to 205 for 3. Kuldeep Sen (3/41) and Umran Malik (3/25) demolished 2019-20 Ranji Trophy champions for just 98 runs in 24.5 overs.
in the presence of the chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma and their allies Sunil JoshiSarfaraz displayed his wide strokes which included 19 fours and three sixes.
In the post-lunch session when the rest were on 18 for 3, Sarfaraz played his most counter punching knock to take the stuffing out of Saurashtra’s attack, while an unbroken 185 for the fourth wicket. Add. Hanuma Vihari (played an innings of 62 runs off 145 balls).
The hallmark of Sarfaraz’s innings was how he picked lengths very early and this enabled him to play late. He played some catchy shots of the wicket but the way he played with the domestic players Jaydev Unadkati was worth watching.
Unadkat bowled two bouncers at different speeds. In the first one, he holds his shape to come under the delivery and pulls it upwards for a six.
The next bouncer from the same spot, he swings his arms to keep the pull shot down for a boundary.
It was a late cut off left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja who scored his century. Later in an over from Jadeja, he repeatedly hit him for three boundaries as Unadkat was forced to open his ground to block a boundary.
However, the pitch in the morning was rougher than expected.
On a track that offered some initial moisture with the help of good bounce and a bit of moisture in the air, Mukesh (4/23 in 10 overs) literally ended Saurashtra with his first spell as he hit the batsmen with every ball. inspired to play.
Most of his deliveries went inside and either left the batsman late after pitching or went straight with the keeper and slip cordon pitching almost everything that came his way.
The great thing about each dismissal was that it was more about the bowler hitting the fuller length while getting it very close to the stumps.
neither of the two openers Harvik Desai And Snell Patel played away from his body, but the Bengal seamer, who had a dream A series against New Zealand, pushed him to a delivery on the off-stump.
However, the prized skull of Cheteshwar Pujara (1) belonged to Kuldeep, who took a thick outside edge to bowl fast and straight and flew into the slips.
But the man to terrorize the batsmen who regularly bowled over 145 clicks was Umran.
The manner in which batsman after batsman shuffled towards the leg-stump to avoid injury was exhilarating.
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Brief Scores: Saurashtra 98 in 25.4 overs (Mukesh Kumar 4/23, Kuldeep Sen 3/41, Umran Malik 3/25) Rest India 205/3 (Sarfaraz Khan 125 batting, Hanuma Vihari 62 batting).
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