KL Rahul’s gumption, which helped him pile a affected person fifty, discovered no resonance amongst his colleagues as India B pacers led by Yash Dayal pushed India A to a 76-run defeat on the fourth and last day of their Duleep Trophy match on Sunday. Chasing 275, India A had been bundled out for 198 of their second innings as left-arm seamer Dayal (3/50), with in a position help from his colleagues Mukesh Kumar (2/50) and Navdeep Saini (2/41), led the India B assault. Rahul top-scored for ‘A’ with a 51.
Within the first session of the day, India B made 184 all out of their second essay to muster a helpful total lead of 274.
The India A chase started on a shaky be aware as Mayank Agarwal departed within the second over itself, wafting Dayal away from his physique to Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made an exquisite diving catch at second slip.
That introduced Riyan Parag to the center and the right-hander adopted the trail set on Saturday by Rishabh Pant and Sarfaraz Khan.
Parag took on the bowlers and pacer Mukesh bore the brunt of his aggression, getting smoked for 2 sixes and the second most touched the roof of the Chinnaswamy Stadium over the mid-wicket area.
Parag added 48 runs for the second with a somewhat subdued Shubman Gill, who was dropped by Nitish Reddy at slips off Mukesh on 16, and 31 got here off the previous’s bat in simply 18 balls.
However the strategy was robust to maintain contemplating the sort of help the bowlers had been getting right here, and shortly his huge hoick off Dayal took an edge off Parag’s bat en path to stumper Rishabh Pant.
Gill (21) departed quickly, falling to Saini for the second time within the match and on this event, he edged the pacer to Pant.
Dhruv Jurel poked Dayal nicely outdoors off-stump to Yashasvi Jaiswal at gully, as India batters perished to a mix of bowlers’ persistence on that channel and their very own carelessness.
They took the lunch at a queasy 76 for 4 that quickly transpired into 99 for six after the dismissal of Shivam Dube and Tanush Kotian, an hour into the lunch.
Nonetheless, Rahul batted out 180 minutes 121 balls and milked 42 runs for the seventh wicket with Kuldeep Yadav to delay the inevitable.
The standout shot in an in any other case dour innings was a whistling on drive off Mukesh that fetched him a boundary.
However Mukesh had his revenge quickly when Rahul feathered a lower off him to Pant, who accomplished 5 catches on this innings, quickly after reaching his fifty with a single off Saini.
It successfully signalled the tip of the street of for India A, although Akash Deep (43, 42b, 3×4, 4×6) gave just a few moments of enjoyable with a cavalier innings.
However past the leisure worth, it at all times was a case of when greater than if.
Earlier, resuming from their in a single day rating of 150 for six India B may solely 34 runs extra to the entire earlier than getting bundled out.
Pacer Akash, whom Sarfaraz Khan carted round for 5 fours in a row yesterday, discovered his mojo so as to add the scalps of Washington Sundar and Saini to finish a five-wicket haul (5/56).
The spell will preserve his title floating among the many contenders when the selectors sit collectively quickly to choose up squad for two-match Take a look at collection in opposition to Bangladesh.
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