Kochi: Opener Ian Dev Singh got a 98 as Jammu & Kashmir have a steady hand on the tiller against Kerala in the fourth match of the Ranji Trophy Group C at the Gandhi Memorial Science College Ground in Jammu on Thursday .
Singh missed out on his 8th first class ton, but only after shoring up a comfortable day one.
Kerala was made to pay for opting to field as unbeaten half centuries from Manzoor Dar and Hardeep Singh puts J&K in a solid 312 for 4.
The visitors made one change to their side that defeated Tripura at home with pacer P U Anthaf replacing off-spinner Vinoop Manoharan.
Even with three medium pacers in its ranks Kerala rarely troubled the hosts' batsmen.
Bandeep Singh and Parvez Rasool scored 49 and 40 respectively and for the visitors Sandeep Warrier, Prasanth Parameswaran and C P Shahid got a wicket apiece.
VRV DESTROYS HARYANA
Paceman V.R.V. Singh wreaked havoc with a five-wicket haul as Punjab bundled out Haryana for a mere 163 on Day One of their Ranji Trophy Group ‘ A’ match at Bansi Lal cricket stadium here on Thursday.
However, Punjab could not make the most of their advantage as they lost three wickets for 50 in reply at the end of the day.
Experienced left-hander Uday Kaul (9) and night watchman Sandeep Sharma (0) will resume on Friday.
Haryana’s decision to bat backfired as India discard Vikarm and his pace colleague Sandeep Sharma shared eight wickets between them to bowl out the hosts for a mere 163.
SCORES ROUND-UP GROUP A Mumbai 254/8 in 90 overs (Wasim Jaffer batting 133, Sandeep Singh 3/29, Ravi Jangid 3/48) vs Vidarbha.
Haryana 163 in 50.1 overs (A.
Barot 65, Nitin Saini 29, V.R.V.
Singh 5/38, Sandeep Sharma 3/61) vs Punjab 50/3 in 19 overs (R. Inder Singh 22, S.
Budhwar 1/2).
194/5 in 89.3 overs (Rameez Nemat 78, Saurabh Tiwary batting 75, Jasprit Bumrah 2/51) vs Gujarat Odisha 226 in 71.1 overs (A.
Mallick 98, 34; Abhimanyu Mithun 6/52) vs Karnataka 22/0.
GROUP B Tamil Nadu 268/2 in 80 overs (Abhinav Mukund batting 103, Vijay 62, Badrinath 56, Aparijith batting 40) vs Saurashtra.
Bengal 242/3 in 90 overs (Arindam Das batting 139, Rohan Banerjee 42 Irfan Khan 1/57, Prateek Desai 1/27) vs Services.
Uttar Pradesh 226 in 85.3 overs. (Parvider Singh 46, Arish Alam 26, A. Choudhary 4/45, D Chahar 3/63) vs Rajasthan 0/1.
Baroda 152 (Abhimanyu Chauhan 58, Jalaj Saxena 6/42) & 9/0 vs Madhya Pradesh 60 (Patel 4/9, Yusuf 4/17).
GROUP C Andhra 232/3 in 80 overs (D.B. Prasanth 86, K.S. Bharat 82, Domnic Joseph 2/45) vs Maharahstra.
Assam 81 in 32.5 overs (Rishi Dhawan 5/29, V.S. Malik 3/24) vs Himachal Pradesh 199/4 in 56 overs (Nikhil Gangta batting 43, Sangram Singh 40).
Jammu & Kashmir 312/4 in 90 overs (Ian Dev 98, Dar 53 not out, Hardeep 51 not out, Bandeep Singh 49, Rasool 40) vs Kerala.
Goa 231/8 in 90 overs (Amogh Desai 102, Swapnil Asnodkar 72, Rana Dutta 4/52) vs Tripura.
