Ranji Trophy: Captain Shubman Gill's century waste, Karnataka beat Punjab – India tv hindi

Punjab captain and opener Shubman Gill (102) failed to save his team from the innings defeat against Karnataka on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Group C match despite a brilliant century. Gill scored 102 runs in 171 balls by adding 95 runs to his second day's seven runs. He hit 14 fours and three sixes in his innings. He scored his first half -century off 119 balls and scored the next 50 runs in just 40 balls. He was the eighth batsman to be dismissed for the Punjab team, which fell down by 420 runs in the first innings. In response to Punjab's 55 runs in the first innings, Karnataka scored 475 runs with the help of a double century of R. Samish (203).

The second innings of Punjab, which scored 24 for two wickets in the second innings, was reduced to 213 runs in 63.4 hours. For Karnataka, fast bowler Yashovardhan Parantap and leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal took three wickets to ensure seven points including bonus for the team. Gill recently could not perform well in the five-match Test series in Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. This 25 -year -old right -handed batsman scored just 93 runs in five innings of three Test matches at an average of 18.60 with a high of 31 runs. Chasing 369 runs to win the match played against Haryana in Kalyani, Bengal's second innings was reduced to just 85 runs.

Bengal gets defeat

Bengal suffered an embarrassing defeat of 283 runs on the third day of the match. Fast bowler Anuj Thakral, who took 6 wickets in the first innings, took four wickets for 32 runs in the second innings. He did not give the Bengal batsmen a chance to spend time at the crease with Anshul Kamboj (four wickets for 35 runs). Ajit Chahal also got two successes. Wriddhiman Saha scored the highest 25 runs for Bengal. Earlier, Haryana's second innings, which started the day by 158 runs for two wickets, was reduced to 336 runs. Nishant Sindhu scored 80 while Himanshu Rana scored 72 runs for the team.

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