Karnatka- the champion of Ranji trophy
Few minutes back Karnataka became the champions of the Ranji Trophy by defeating Maharastra by 7 wickets in Hyderabad. This year Karnataka deserve to be the champions because they won 7 matches outright. In the final Maharashtra won the toss and batted. Karnataka were in spot of bother when Maharashtra ended day 1 on 272 for 5 .On the second morning Maharashtra team were bowled out for 305. When Karnataka came to bat they piled a hug score of 515 runs.
The 1st innings of Karnatka had the contribution of KL Rahul, Ganesh Satish and others also contributed. In second innings Maharastra played better and scored 366 with KD Jadhav scoring a hundred and left the Karntaka team to score 157 to win which team chased easily by losing only 3 wickets. It has been combined with great bowling, solid batting from KL Rahul, Karun Nair scoring 3 back to back centuries, Amit Verma, Manish Pandey, CM Gautuam.
In the bowling department all bowlers have done well especially HS Sharath, Abhimuyun Mithun, Vinay Kumar the captain, Sheryas Gopal, Stuart Binny. When the season started they drew the first three matches but after that the Karnataka team dominated by beating Odisha, Mumbai, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, outright. The team finished top of the table in group A. Karnataka won the prestiguos tournament for the 7th time
KL Rahul debut season scored more than 1000 runs, Karun Nair scored 3 centuries one after the other one in the semi final, Vinay Kumar who picked 5 wickets in crucial semi final when the team needed it. In 2009 at Mysore the team came to final by lost to Mumbai by just 6 runs. Uthappa also contributed to team cause with some quick fire start which makes the life of the rest of batting order easy.
As an Indian fan i would have love to see an close fight but Karnatka has to be congratulated for winning the trophy back again. Apart from that the batting of KD jadhav has been impressive, Khadiwale has also contributed, Samid Fallah has done good with bowl but in the finals their catching let down which cost them the match.
After 15 years the Karnataka team has won this prestigious tournament and this should be a dream of any Indian cricketer. The support staff role in this tournament has been special.
Maharashtra on the other side played brilliant cricket defeating the 40 time champions Mumbai in quarter finals, then defeating Bengal in Semi finals. Hope to see that these young players can play for Indian team in future.
The 1st innings of Karnatka had the contribution of KL Rahul, Ganesh Satish and others also contributed. In second innings Maharastra played better and scored 366 with KD Jadhav scoring a hundred and left the Karntaka team to score 157 to win which team chased easily by losing only 3 wickets. It has been combined with great bowling, solid batting from KL Rahul, Karun Nair scoring 3 back to back centuries, Amit Verma, Manish Pandey, CM Gautuam.
In the bowling department all bowlers have done well especially HS Sharath, Abhimuyun Mithun, Vinay Kumar the captain, Sheryas Gopal, Stuart Binny. When the season started they drew the first three matches but after that the Karnataka team dominated by beating Odisha, Mumbai, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, outright. The team finished top of the table in group A. Karnataka won the prestiguos tournament for the 7th time
KL Rahul debut season scored more than 1000 runs, Karun Nair scored 3 centuries one after the other one in the semi final, Vinay Kumar who picked 5 wickets in crucial semi final when the team needed it. In 2009 at Mysore the team came to final by lost to Mumbai by just 6 runs. Uthappa also contributed to team cause with some quick fire start which makes the life of the rest of batting order easy.
As an Indian fan i would have love to see an close fight but Karnatka has to be congratulated for winning the trophy back again. Apart from that the batting of KD jadhav has been impressive, Khadiwale has also contributed, Samid Fallah has done good with bowl but in the finals their catching let down which cost them the match.
After 15 years the Karnataka team has won this prestigious tournament and this should be a dream of any Indian cricketer. The support staff role in this tournament has been special.
Maharashtra on the other side played brilliant cricket defeating the 40 time champions Mumbai in quarter finals, then defeating Bengal in Semi finals. Hope to see that these young players can play for Indian team in future.
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