Standing tall: Sachin Baby recorded his eleventh First Class century.
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Kerala confronted one other acquainted center order collapse, however disaster man Sachin Baby stood tall to attain his eleventh First Class century because the staff ended the second day in command in opposition to Assam in a Ranji Trophy conflict on the ACA Stadium right here on Saturday.
A counter-attacking 131 by former captain Baby carried Kerala from 276 for seven to 419. The customer, which was cruising at 217 for one, misplaced wickets in clusters after lunch. However, Baby stepped in to guide the restoration with the tailenders.
Medium pacer Basil Thampi (19) helped Baby add 66 for the eighth wicket whereas his new ball accomplice M.D. Nidheesh (12) was concerned in a 62-run stand for the ninth as Kerala posted a formidable whole. The staff then took two wickets to cut back the host to 14 for 2 at stumps.
Sachin Baby was concerned in essential partnerships with the tail.
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RITU RAJ KONWAR
A collapse regarded distant when in a single day batters Krishna Prasad and Rohan Prem negotiated the Assam assault with none alarms in the primary session and furthered the second wicket stand to 84.
Prem overcame a tentative begin to rating briskly in opposition to the spinners to achieve his half-century. But simply earlier than lunch, Rahul Sharma foxed the batter with a ball that bounced and compelled him to feather a catch to mad level for 50.
Slide
The slide began when Krishna Prasad (80) fell in the primary over after lunch to Rahul with Rahul Hazarika taking one other sharp catch at foolish level.
Vishnu Vinod clubbed a couple of boundaries to race to 19 however was run out by a direct hit from Akash Sengupta. Akshay Chandran (0) and Jalaj Saxena (1) perished to free pictures whereas Rahul had Shreyas Gopal stumped for 18.
Baby, who until then was accumulating his run, rapidly switched to attacking mode. He farmed the strike and stepped out to whack boundaries with ridiculous ease in opposition to each pacers and spinners to take the match away from Assam’s grasp.
The scores:
Kerala — 1st Innings: Rohan Kunnummal st Ghadigaonkar b Sarmah 83, Krishna Prasad c Hazarika b Rahul 80, Rohan Prem c Hazarika b Rahul 50, Sachin Baby c Das b Hussain 131, Vishnu Vinod run out 19, Akshay Chandran b Rahul 0, Shreyas Gopal st Ghadigaonkar b Sarmah 18, Jalaj Saxena c Ghadigaonkar b Aksash 1, Basil Thampi c Sarmah b Hussain 16, M.D. Nidheesh b Hussain 12, Vishweshar Suresh (not out) 0, Extras (b-4, 1b-4, nb-1): 9; Total (in 113.4 overs): 419.
Fall of wickets: 1-133, 2-217, 3-222, 4-253, 5-253, 6-275, 7-276, 8-342, 9-404.
Assam bowling: Hussain 31.4-8-82-3, Lachit 16-0-56-0, Rahul 15.3-1-56-3, Akash 20-4-71-1, Riyan 7-0-28-0, Sarmah 16.3-1-82-2, Gokul 7-0-36-0.
Assam — 1st Innings: Rishav Das batting 5, Rahul Hazarika b Thampi 9, Siddharth Sarmah lbw Jalaj 0, S.C. Ghadigaoankar batting 0; Total (for 2 wkts. in 5 overs): 14.
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-14.
Kerala bowling: Thampi 2-0-8-1, Jalaj 2-0-6-0, Shreyas 1-1-0-0.
