Sports Reporter
JAMMU: Despite speedster, Sami-ullah Beigh’s four wickets haul, Kerala managed 263 runs for the loss of four wickets, courtesy unbeaten century from wicket-keeper Sanju Samson on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Plate group match at Bengal Cricket Academy ground, Kalyani in Kolkata.
As per the reports reaching here, middle order batsman, Sanju Samson scored an unbeaten century to help the side pile up 263 runs.
Earlier, after winning the toss J and K skipper opted to field. Sanju Samson with 129 runs was the star performer and he was well supported by Jalaj Ssaxena who scored brilliant 63 runs while Iqbal Abdullah and Munish contributed 14 runs each to the total.
Besides Sami Ullah, who bagged four for 68 in 21 overs, Ram Dayal too bowled valuable spell taking away two wickets for 59 runs in 22 overs. Another wicket was taken by Umar Nazir.
Jammu and Kashmir team: SP Khajuria, Parvez Rasool*, S Beigh, P Bisht†, Adil Reshi, Bandeep Singh, ID Singh, R Dayal, Umar Nazir, Aamir Aziz and Pranav Gupta.
score board
Kerala 1st innings
BJ Thakkar lbw b Beigh 04
Jalaj S Saxena c Pranav Gupta b Beigh 69
PR Prem* c †Bisht b Dayal 01
SV Samson† not out 129
Sachin Baby b Beigh 00
RM Fernandez c †Bisht b Umar Nazir 03
Iqbal Abdulla c †Bisht b Dayal 14
KS Monish c Singh b Beigh 14
U Manukrishnan not out 06
Extras 23
Total 263/7
