Dubey stated he approached the Ranji remaining as simply one other match in his profession.
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When Harsh Dubey, the younger left-arm spinner, was informed a day previous to Vidarbha’s Ranji Trophy remaining, he had a key batter earmarked to be trapped. And the younger spinner was delighted to have executed his plan to perfection.
Of the three wickets that the teenager picked to depart Mumbai in a tizzy, he enjoyed Mumbai captain Ajinkya Rahane’s dismissal the most.
“I enjoyed Rahane’s wicket the most. Before the match, I had made up my mind to dismiss him. I always do it. Before every match, pick a player whom I want to dismiss,” Dubey stated.
“It’s my best wicket in Ranji Trophy till now. After bowling the stump line, I was giving him balls to drive. I thought that there were chances of the ball going in the air if Rahane drives it as the ball was getting stuck on the wicket. The plan succeeded.”
Rahane’s try to interrupt the shackles resulted in an uppish drive that was latched on to by Dhruv Shorey stretching to his left at mid-off.
Dube, the 21-year-old, has been switching between Vidarbha’s Under-23 and Ranji facet proper via the season. The teenager pressured that the expertise of getting been topped champion in the inter-state age-group championships helped him enter the remaining with none strain.
“There was no pressure of the final. We have won the U-16, U-19 and U-23 finals in the past, so, there was no such pressure of the final,” Dubey stated.
“I was treating it as a normal game and not thinking of it as a big game. I am taking it as just another Ranji contest against Mumbai.”
