Madhya Pradesh Avesh Khan celebrates a wicket through the Ranji Trophy semifinal match towards Vidarbha in Nagpur on March 2, 2024.
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Avesh Khan-led Madhya Pradesh tempo bowling unit hit proper lengths on a pitch that provided sufficient carry to bowl out Vidarbha for a meagre 170 on day one to realize management of their Ranji Trophy semifinal match in Nagpur on March 2.
Avesh (4/49) was the choose of MP bowlers, whereas receiving good assist from Kulwant Khejroliya (2/38) and Venkatesh Iyer (2/28).
Madhya Pradesh reached 47 for one of their first innings at shut, and path by 123 runs.
The VCA Stadium deck wore such advantageous inexperienced tinge as MP employed spin for simply 2.4 overs in a complete of 56.4 overs they bowled on the day.
Left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya, who dismissed final man Umesh Yadav, did the spinner’s responsibility for a short interval.
Other spinners of their ranks like offie Saransh Jain remained spectators of the proceedings.
Vidarbha’s feeble combat got here by way of Karun Nair, who made 63 (105 balls, 9×4).
India pacer Avesh gave MP a advantageous begin to the match when he uprooted the stumps of opener Dhruv Shorey (13).
Vidarbha misplaced wickets at common intervals from that time and their greatest partnership was a 36 between Atharva Taide (39, 63b, 8×4) and Aman Mokhade (13, 75 balls) for the second wicket.
It got here in virtually 16 overs however the dwelling aspect didn’t capitalise on all of the laborious work.
Taide, who made a gritty hundred towards Karnataka within the quarterfinals, snicked Iyer to stumper Himanshu Mantri who took a stunning tumbling catch behind the primary slip.
It introduced Karun, Vidarbha’s highest run-getter to date this season, to the center and he performed a advantageous innings full of these typical drives and cuts.
But the right-hander didn’t discover assist from the opposite finish as Avesh dismissed a cussed Mokhade.
The hosts quickly misplaced Yash Rathod, bowled by Iyer, and skipper Akshay Wadkar within the house of 5 runs to slide to 106 for 5.
The catch Yash Dubey took at gully off pacer Khejroliya to oust Wadkar was a surprising one. He made a low-dive to his left to pouch a screamer as Wadkar tried to steer the ball from exterior the off-stump.
Vidarbha’s hopes of reaching at the least 200 was dashed when Karun dragged a Khejroliya supply to his stumps whereas making an attempt a pull.
However, the Vidarbha bowlers weren’t as correct as their MP counterparts because the visiting batters noticed off the day with none alarm.
The lone jarring be aware was the dismissal of Dubey who feathered an edge off Umesh to Wadkar behind the stumps.
