AGENCY
VADODARA: Parvez Rasool’s dismissal off the fifth ball faced evoked muted celebration in the Hyderabad team, confident that victory was theirs for the asking, just the formalities need to be completed. Jammu and Kashmir, overnight on 42 for four wickets and trailing by 361 runs heading into the fourth and final day, collapsed to 117 all out in the Ranji Trophy Group ‘C’ match at Motibaug ground.
Hyderabad won by 286 runs to add valuable points to the tally, which now reads an impressive 29 in seven matches.
The J & K skipper could not repeat his first innings heroics (a gritty 70 against pace-heavy attack). Spinner Akash Bhandari snared Rasool for the first of three wickets in the second innings. Rasool said: “Hyderabad adjusted to conditions better than us. Motibaug wicket is known for helping fast bowlers, the advantage our bowlers could not capitalise on and from the time they scored 300-plus in the first innings, the game went away from us.”
score board
Hyderabad (India) 1st innings 328/10
Jammu & Kashmir 1st innings 169/10
Hyderabad (India) 2nd innings
TD Agarwal not out 103
PA Reddy lbw b Parvez Rasool 53
S Badrinath* c †Bisht b Beigh 66
Extras 22
Total 244/2 dec
Jammu & Kashmir 2nd innings
SP Khajuria c †Sumanth b Ravi Kiran 04
AO Bandy c Badrinath b Milind 16
Pranav Gupta lbw b Ravi Kiran 01
ID Singh c †Sumanth b Mohammed Siraj 13
R Dayal b Milind 33
AP Singh c †Sumanth b Milind 26
Parvez Rasool* c †Sumanth b Bhandari 00
P Bisht† st †Sumanth b Bhandari 05
S Beigh c Badrinath b Bhandari 05
Harmeet Singh b Milind 00
Suhail Andleev not out 10
Extras 04
Total 117/10