Impressive effort: Natarajan & Co. defended the low complete of 162 with ease.
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Dinesh Karthik displayed his class but once more and Shahrukh Khan put his head down to assist Tamil Nadu register a hat-trick of wins within the Vijay Hazare Trophy Group E on Wednesday. Karthik’s quickfire 68 (51b, 9×4, 2×6) and his 75-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Shahrukh (31, 29b, 2×4, 1×6) bailed Tamil Nadu out of hassle on the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy floor.
The in-form bowling quartet led by T. Natarajan then defended a complete of 162 on a bowler-friendly monitor to bundle Baroda out for 124.
Had it not been for Karthik and Shahrukh’s affiliation, TN would have discovered it tough to get its bowlers into motion. The facet was staring down the barrel at 52 for six when the 2 batters bought collectively.
Lukman Meriwala, the left-arm swinger, had run by way of the TN top-order. The seasoned campaigner exploited the situations to perfection but once more to show the frailties of TN batters in negotiating the motion and bounce.
In situations barely easing, regardless of the spinners additionally coming into the sport, Karthik and Shahrukh rotated the strike for some time earlier than Karthik focused Bhargav Bhatt’s left-arm spin. The thirty first over noticed him tonk 23 runs, with the sequence studying 0, 6, 6, 4, 3, 4.
Tamil Nadu’s Dinesh Karthik in motion throughout the Vijay Hazare Trophy Match between Tamil Nadu and Baroda.
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A sweep-shot over sq. leg fence meant Bhatt pulled the size again and Karthik was fast to dispatch the subsequent ball over the midwicket fence.
The subsequent ball was fuller and Karthik cleared the mid-on for a one-bounced 4. The subsequent one was steered by way of the vacant slip area for 3 adopted by one other sweep for a 4.
Had Karthik not missed one from Ninad Rathwa — the opposite left-arm spinner with Baroda captain Krunal Pandya persevering with to be sidelined as a result of a again spasm — within the subsequent over, Tamil Nadu would have inched nearer to 200.
Natarajan then rattled the Baroda top-order, with the chasing facet reeling at 42 for 4 on the lunch break. Soon after the break, when Natarajan ran in from long-off to take a wonderful catch to dismiss stand-in captain Vishnu Solanki, the writing was clear on the wall.
Tamil Nadu’s Varun Chakravarty in motion throughout the Vijay Hazare Trophy Match between Tamil Nadu and Baroda.
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The spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy and R. Sai Kishore folded up the tail very quickly. Had it not been for Bhatt’s three large sixes, together with two off Sai Kishore off successive balls earlier than being dismissed, the victory margin would have been a lot larger for Tamil Nadu.
