Mumbai’s Tushar Deshpande and Tanush Kotian on day 5 of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal towards Baroda in Mumbai on Febraury 27, 2024.
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Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande have loads in frequent. Both are sons of membership cricketers who dreamt their sons would obtain what they couldn’t. Both began off as batters earlier than making a reputation primarily as a bowler. On February 27, the duo joined collectively to rewrite document books on the final day of Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy quarterfinal towards Baroda.
Having added 42 runs for the final wicket on the fourth night, Kotian and Deshpande resumed their affiliation so as to add a whopping 190 runs extra off 30 overs on the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy.
As a end result, the duo grew to become solely the second No. 10 and No. 11 batters to attain 100 in the identical First Class match.
On the cusp of overhauling Ajay Sharma and Maninder Singh’s 233-run partnership for Delhi towards Mumbai within the 1991-92 semifinal at Wankhede Stadium – the very best stand for the final wicket in Ranji Trophy – Deshpande was dismissed.
“We did get a message an over or two earlier but these are all materialistic things. We are very happy that we could play according to the merit of the ball and take the game completely away from the opposition,” stated an elated Deshpande.
Monkey off his again
For Kotian, greater than the missed document, crossing the 90s barrier for the third time after succumbing on 93 and 98 in every of the final two seasons meant loads. “I had ten fifties before the game and for me it was a crucial innings because of the timing.
“I was telling myself ke karna hai yeh ab (that you have to do it now). I was talking to Tushar and planning on which bowler we can go after,” he stated.
Having began off as a batter in Kalyan, nearly 70 km from south Mumbai, Deshpande was an unintended quick bowler.
When he was 12, he travelled to Shivaji Park for a summer season camp trial and watching solely eight-ten gamers within the bowlers’ queue, converted from the batters’ queue that was a minimum of six occasions longer.
Kotian, in the meantime, is the son of a tennis-ball cricket legend in Vikhroli, a central suburb and has emerged as a key all-rounder for Mumbai.
In elite firm
# Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande grew to become the primary pair of No. 10 and No. 11 to attain 100 in the identical innings in Ranji Trophy.
# The duo recorded solely the second such occasion in First Class cricket after Chandu Sarwate and Shute Banerjee did it for India towards Surrey in 1946-47.
# Tushar Deshpande’s 123 is the very best particular person rating for a No. 11 batter in Ranji Trophy historical past, eclipsing Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan’s 115 for Tamil Nadu vs Delhi in 2000-01.
# Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande’s partnership of 232 was the second-highest for the final wicket in Ranji Trophy historical past, one run shot of Ajay Sharma and Maninder Singh’s 233 for Delhi vs Mumbai in 1991-92
