The pitch turned out to be a spin paradise because the spinners claimed 21 wickets on day one of many elite Group-D match between Pondicherry and Jammu & Kashmir within the sixth spherical of the Ranji Trophy on the Cricket Association of Pondicherry (CAP) Siechem floor right here on Friday.
The red-soil pitch enabled three five-wicket hauls. Left-arm spinner Sidak Singh’s maiden First-Class five-for (5 for 39) helped Pondicherry bowl out Jammu & Kashmir for a meek 106 inside the first session itself. In response, left-arm spinners Abid Mushtaq (5 for 64) and debutant Vanshaj Sharma (5 for 74) managed to limit Pondicherry to 172.
The 60-run fifth-wicket partnership between Paras Dogra (58, 107b, 3×4) and Ok.B. Arun Karthick (50, 50b, 5×4) ensured that Pondicherry secured a 66-run first-innings lead.
Twelve wickets fell within the first session.
After Jammu & Kashmir opted to bat, Pondicherry captain Rohit Damodaran selected to bowl solely spin from the second over itself.
Left-arm spinners Abid Mushtaq and Vanshaj Sharma shone with the ball for Jammu & Kashmir on day one of many Group-D match versus Pondicherry within the sixth spherical of the Ranji Trophy in Puducherry on February 9, 2024.
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Opener Qamran Iqbal was dropped by Akash Kargave at level off Sidak within the second over of the day, but it surely didn’t show expensive as Sidak had him caught by Mohit Mittan at slip in his second over.
Rohit introduced himself into the assault within the eighth over and struck together with his second supply. He had the left-hander Vivrant Sharma caught by Mittan at cowl. The off-spinner later had Shubham Pundir caught by Dogra at gully.
Jammu & Kashmir’s batting was largely tentative. Vivrant charged at Sidak and missed the ball for the keeper to overlook it too for 4 byes. Captain and opener Shubham Khajuria performed and missed his sweep as soon as, top-edged his sweep for the ball to fall wanting the deep sq. leg fielder as soon as, and was ultimately dismissed when he top-edged his sweep once more to be caught by Mittan at quick midwicket, all off Sidak.
Abdul Samad got here in when his workforce was on 28 for 2 and whacked a six to the cow nook boundary off Rohit on the second ball that he confronted. Shubham Singh, trying to hit a reverse sweep off Rohit, seemingly went off-balance and solely ended up taking part in the shot one-handed.
There was seemingly no effort to hold in or construct partnerships from the Jammu & Kashmir batters. In distinction, Paras Dogra, Akash Kargave (19, 44b), and Arun Karthick utilized themselves and that made the distinction for Pondicherry.
The scores: Jammu & Kashmir — 1st innings: Shubham Khajuria c Mittan b Sidak 15, Qamran Iqbal c Mittan b Sidak 6, Vivrant Sharma c Mittan b Rohit 5, Abdul Samad c Karthick b Udeshi 10, Shubham Pundir c Dogra b Rohit 21, Sahil Lotra c Ratnaparkhe b Sidak 0, Fazil Rashid c Dogra b Udeshi 27, Abid Mushtaq b Sidak 2, Vanshaj Sharma b Udeshi 8, Umar Nazir Mir (not out) 6, Umran Malik b Sidak 0; Extras (b-4, lb-2): 6; Total (in 28.4 overs): 106.
Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-28, 3-38, 4-42, 5-43, 6-81, 7-84, 8-92, 9-105, 10-106.
Pondicherry bowling: Gaurav 1-0-10-0, Udeshi 10-0-34-3, Sidak 13.4-2-39-5, Rohit 4-0-17-2.
Pondicherry — 1st innings: Paras Ratnaparkhe lbw b Vanshaj 10, Karthikeyan (*21*) st Fazil b Vanshaj 0, Sagar Udeshi c Khajuria b Vanshaj 5, Paras Dogra lbw b Abid 58, Akash Kargave c Fazil b Abid 19, Arun Karthick b Vanshaj 50, Sidak Singh c Lotra b Abid 3, Mohit Mittan c Vivrant b Vanshaj 18, Rohit Damodaran c Samad b Abid 2, Krishna Pandey c & b Abid 7, Gaurav Yadav (not out) 0; Total (in 55.1 overs): 172.
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-8, 3-43, 4-75, 5-135, 6-141, 7-145, 8-148, 9-172, 10-172.
Jammu & Kashmir bowling: Abid 25-3-64-5, Vanshaj 21.1-1-74-5, Lotra 5-0-15-0, Umran 3-0-15-0, Vivrant 1-0-4-0.
Jammu & Kashmir — 2nd innings: Umran Malik c Karthick b Udeshi 0, Shubham Khajuria (not out) 0; Total (for 1 wkt. in 0.1 over): 0.
Fall of wicket: 1-0.
Pondicherry bowling: Udeshi 0.1-0-0-1.
