Karnataka Wins Irani Cup

Manish Pandey's glittering century and leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal's sterling playing exertion helped Ranji champions Karnataka hold the Irani Cup in the wake of beating Rest of India by a huge 246 runs on the fourth and penultimate day.

The snippet of festival desired the hosts after Pandey figured out how to remove a stump as a keepsake in the wake of running out Varun Aaron. Karnataka got to be just the second group to pack consecutive Irani Cup titles. With this win, Karnataka adjusted off the season with a thousand treble generally as they did a year back by holding the Ranji Trophy and winning the Vijay Hazare Trophy prior in the season.

Gopal came back with great figures of four for 39 runs in six overs, while pacer Abhimanyu Mithun scalped three for 40 in his 10 overs to bowl out Rest of India for 156 in their second innings in 43.3 overs while pursuing a mammoth focus of 403. With this win, Karnataka adjusted off the season with a thousand treble generally as they did a year back by holding the Ranji Trophy and winning the Vijay Hazare Trophy prior in the season.

Man-of-the-match Pandey won the trees for his batting, however Gopal turned the tables around for Karnataka by taking four back to back wickets after the guests came to the score of 113. He grabbed the prized scalps of risky Kedar Jadhav (56), Jayant Yadav (10), Rishi Dhawan (10) and Shardul Tahkur (10).

Gopal initially grabbed Yadav by catching him LBW, leaving Rest of India in dubious condition with the scoreboard perusing 116 for six. From that point, the leggie mericilessly and with hardly a pause in between uprooted Dhawan, Thakur and Jadhav to detract Karnataka inches from the triumph. Mithun additionally knocked down some pins his heart out in both Rest of India innings, finishing with an amazing match figures of six for 86 off 27 overs.

"All credit goes to the young men. Devotion and longing key to Karnataka's prosperity. Batting in the fourth innings was troublesome here in light of the fact that the splits got more extensive. We had the playing assault. We knew 300 or more runs would be troublesome for them," he said.

Continuing their second innings at 341 for six, Karnataka included an alternate 81 runs before consummation at 422, in this way setting a focus of 403 to win before Rest of India. Pandey, who continued at the overnight score of 73, made greater part of the runs by including 50, yet other Karnataka batsmen neglected to issue him bolster from the flip side and tumbled to a red hot spell of Thakur, who asserted all the staying four wickets and finished with an amazing figures of five for 86 in 29.3 overs.

"I was a bit fortunate, however it at long last paid off. Irani hundred matters a great deal, the season was great. I didn't change over begins at an opportune time yet I am upbeat to complete it in this way. 400 was a major lead for us. That had the effect," Pandey said. Rest of India battled during their time innings as five batsmen - Unmukt Chand (1), Paras Dogra (0), Naman Ojha (0), Thakur (5) and Pragyan Ojha (0) - neglected to achieve twofold digit scores.

"Karnataka bowlers rocked the bowling alley truly well. We supported our young men to do well however we didn't have luckiness. Full credit to them. Good fortunes to them," Rest of India commanding captain Manoj Tiwary said. The stage for Karnataka's triumph was situated up by their batsmen. Mayank Agarwal (68), Karun Nair (59) and debutant Abhishek Reddy (54), who played pivotal thumps to help Karnataka achieve a respectable 244 full scale in their first innings.