Kochi: A clumsy Kerala middle order threw away six wickets for just 24 runs as the visitors conceded a crucial first innings lead to Jammu & Kashmir, letting down centurion V.A.
Jagadeesh on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Group ‘C’ match at Jammu on Saturday.
The opener had painstakingly constructed his seventh first-class century, and after Rohan Prem’s departure for 86, Kerala collapsed from a promising 278 for 4 to being bowled out for 302 on the third day.
Samiullah Beigh ripped through the lower order to finish with four wickets while Ram Dayal and Mohammed Mudhasir bagged two apiece to hand a 75-run lead to their side.
Adil Rishi had played with attacking intent to garner 68 runs off just 80 deliveries, giving J&K a lead of 186 runs at stumps. The hosts have nine wickets in hand, and if they get at least two full sessions on the final day, Kerala face the prospect of returning with a solitary point or worse, face defeat.
Jagadeesh and Rohan had got the Kerala innings off smoothly from an overnight 182 for 4 and raised a 134-run partnership before the former fell victim to Waseem Raja.
Rohan and Robert Fernandez seemed to be in a mood to build on the good work, but Ram Dayal cut short Kerala’ fantasy dismissing the two in successive overs. BRIEF SCORES GROUP A Haryana 163 & 155 lost to 184 and 135/7 in 45 overs (Sandeep Sharma 37 not out, Gurkeerat Singh 37, Mohit Sharma 3/38).
Mumbai 261 & 381/4 decl. (A.Tare 172, A. Rahane 133, S. Yadav 49 not out, R. Jangid 2/88) vs Vidarbha 113 & 177/8 (S.
Shrivastava 69, Shrikant Wagh batting 34, S. Thakur 2/46, A.Dabholkar 2/21).
Jharkhand 289 & 28/0 vs Gujarat 352/9 decl. (Parthiv Patel 189, Samit Gohel 80, Samar Quadri 4/73).
Odisha 379 & 169/4 in 60 overs (Biplab Samantray batting 50, Abhilash Mallick batting 47) vs Karnataka 379.
GROUP B Tamil Nadu 565/8 decl.
(Abhinav Mukund 240, Dinesh Karthik 133, Jaydev Unadkat 4/99) vs 326/3 in 93 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara batting 152, Jaydev Shah batting 133, R. Prasanna 1/26).
Bengal 431 vs Services 361/6 in 101 overs (Vishnu Tiwari 56, Soumya Swain battin 56, Pratik Desay 52, Ashok Dinda 3/75).
Uttar Pradesh 226 & 319/5 decl.
(Prashant Gupta 144, Parvinder Singh 50 not out, Aniket Choudhary 3/48) vs Rajasthan 185 and 15/0 in 4 overs.
Baroda 152 & 244 (Yusuf Pathan not out 104; Jalaj Saxena 7/82) bt Madhya Pradesh 60 & 90 in 44.4 overs (Bhargav Bhatt 5/37, Yusuf Pathan 3/27, Ketul Patel 2/15) GROUP C Himachal Pradesh 463/9d bt Assam 81 & 161 in 53.5 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 52, Rishi Dhawan 5/58).
Jammu & Kashmir 377 & 111/1 in 27 overs (Adil batting 68) vs Kerala 302 in 114 overs (Jagadeesh 106, Rohan 86, Robert 26, Beigh 4/76, Dayal 2/64, Mudhasir 2/36) Goa 252 & 177 (Buddhadev Mangaldas 40, K. Acharjee 2/14, S. Majumder 2/36, M. Murasingh 2/40, R. Datta 2/51) vs Tripura 174 & 74/2.
