The Rest of India workforce with the Irani Cup.
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The solely means the Irani Cup between Madhya Pradesh and Rest of India may have gone the gap on the fifth and closing day was if the hosts didn’t lose early wickets.
Chasing 437 for victory, MP resumed on 81 for 2, with skipper Himanshu Mantri batting on a well-set 51. Unfortunately for Mantri, he was adjudged caught behind off the second ball of the day from Navdeep Saini and stood shocked on the resolution as he felt his bat was nowhere close to the ball.
From thereon, nothing went the house workforce’s means. It misplaced wickets shortly and was bowled out for 198 as RoI cantered to a 238-run win to retain the Irani Cup on the Captain Roop Singh Stadium right here on Sunday.
After Mantri’s dismissal, pacer Mukesh Kumar bowled Yash Dubey — the primary innings centurion — beating him with a supply that didn’t are available in as a lot because the batter anticipated and uprooting off-stump.
Semblance of a combat
Aman Solanki, who hails from Gwalior, saved the small however boisterous crowd proud of a breezy 31, hitting six boundaries. Solanki and Harsh Gawli had added 49 runs for the fifth wicket placing up a semblance of a combat when Atit Sheth received a supply to chop in sharply and despatched Solanki’s leg-stump cartwheeling.
With that wicket, the fort was breached because the decrease order tried to sharpen their big-hitting abilities, accelerating the inevitable because the hosts folded up 10 minutes earlier than lunch.
Left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar (3/60) and off-spinner Pulkit Narang (2/27) shared the final 4 scalps equally in as many overs to convey the curtains down on the Indian home First Class season.
The scores:
Rest of India — 1st innings: 484.
Madhya Pradesh — 1st innings: 294.
Rest of India — 2nd innings: 246.
Madhya Pradesh — 2nd innings: Arham Aquil lbw b Mukesh 0, Himanshu Mantri c Upendra b Saini 51, Shubham Sharma b Saurabh 13, Harsh Gawli lbw b Narang 48, Yash Dubey b Mukesh 8, Aman Solanki b Sheth 31, Saransh Jain c Upendra b Sheth 7, Ankit Kushwah st Upendra b Saurabh 23, Anubhav Agarwal c&b Narang 3, Kumar Kartikeya lbw b Saurabh 7, Avesh Khan not out 0; Extras (lb-6, nb-1): 7; Total (in 58.4 overs): 198.
Fall of wickets: 0-1, 2-51, 3-81, 4-94, 5-143, 6-151, 7-188, 8-188, 9-192.
Rest of India bowling: Mukesh 12-4-34-2, Saini 9-2-34-1, Sheth 11-1-37-2 , Saurabh 17.4-1-60-3, Narang 9-0-27-2.
RoI gained by 238 runs; Player-of-the-Match: Yashasvi Jaiswal (213 & 144).
