Ranji Trophy | Karun’s hundred props up Vidarbha on day one

Karun en route his twenty second First-Class ton.
| Photograph Credit score: R.V. MOORTHY

Karun Nair has totally taken to his coronary heart the idiom ‘make hay whereas the solar shines’ this season. Having smashed data throughout the Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring 5 tons in 9 video games, the 33-year-old has seamlessly carried the shape into First-Class cricket. On Saturday, he scored his second Ranji Trophy century in as many video games in opposition to Tamil Nadu and the third of the season to information Vidarbha to place on day one of many Ranji Trophy quarterfinal conflict on the VCA floor right here on Saturday.

At stumps, Vidarbha completed on 264 for six, with Karun unbeaten on 100 (180b, 14×4, 1×6). Electing to bat, the house crew didn’t have the best of begins, shedding two early wickets to the TN medium-pacers.

Dhruv Shorey hit a number of boundaries to get the scoreboard shifting earlier than he was caught and bowled by Vijay Shankar, who got here up with a diving effort to depart the host in a spot at 44 for 3.

Danish Malewar (75, 119b, 13×4) and Karun then steadied the innings, stitching a 98-run partnership for the fourth wicket.

The 21-year-old Danish, taking part in in his maiden season, put the strain again on the customer, hitting Vijay Shankar for 3 fours in a single over. He was compact by the leg-side, whipping something straight by the midwicket area.

Put up lunch, the TN bowlers had been responsible of being wavered, and each the batters punished them by discovering the fence at will. Danish flicked Vijay Shankar by long-on to succeed in his half-century in model.

On the different finish, Karun appeared stable, taking part in a chanceless knock and gave no inch to the customer. The previous Karnataka batter was imposing in opposition to the tweakers along with his nimble footwork.

He began by stepping all the way down to loft Sai Kishore over long-off for a most. He later used the standard sweep successfully in opposition to the 2 left-arm spinners R. Sai Kishore and Ajith Ram. It was his most efficient shot, accounting for 5 of his 14 boundaries as he introduced up his twenty second First-Class hundred.

The scores:

Vidarbha — 1st innings: Atharva Taide c Ajith Ram b Mohammed 0, Dhruv Shorey c & b Vijay Shankar 26, Aditya Thakare c Sai Kishore b Sonu Yadav 5, Danish Malewar c Mohammed b Vijay Shankar 75, Karun Nair (batting) 100, Yash Rathod st. Jagadeesan b Mohamed Ali 13, Akshay Wadkar c Jagadeesan b Ajith Ram 24, Harsh Dubey (batting) 19; Extras (nb-1, w-1): 2; Whole (for six wkts. in 89 overs): 264.

Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-25, 3-44, 4-142, 5-167, 6-231.

Tamil Nadu bowling: Mohammed 20-6-50-1, Sonu Yadav 17-4-55-1, Vijay Shankar 15-4-50-2, Sai Kishore 16-3-43-0, Ajith Ram 17-3-50-1, Mohamed Ali 4-0-16-1.