Madhav, Aryan mount a stirring fightback for Uttar Pradesh

Double engine: Madhav and Aryan led Uttar Pradesh’s fightback towards Karnataka. | Picture: SANDEEP SAXENA

Fortunes fluctuated as Karnataka went from ceding its benefit to clawing again on the third day of its Ranji Trophy contest towards Uttar Pradesh right here on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium.

Centurions Madhav Kaushik and Aryan Juyal had been concerned in a mammoth 246-run stand for the second wicket, blunting Karnataka’s assault and erased the 186-run deficit.

Spinners Mohsin Khan and Shreyas Gopal then picked three wickets within the area of 19 runs to offer Karnataka a foothold, earlier than Sameer Rizvi and Aaditya Sharma set about shutting the door on the guests.

However simply as the sunshine was fading, Rizvi gifted his wicket, pulling Mohsin’s lengthy hop to the deep-midwicket fielder to lift Karnataka’s hopes.

Earlier, Karnataka’s pacers had been ineffective, permitting Kaushik and Juyal to come back into their very own. V. Koushik didn’t assault the stumps sufficient, Vidyadhar Patil pitched it too quick, and debutant Yashovardhan Parantap leaked runs along with his half-volleys.

Kaushik drove and minimize when the ball was not within the line of the stumps, whereas Juyal discovered his bearings with two delectable straight drives that discovered the boundary off Parantap’s bowling.

Kaushik introduced out an aerial minimize behind level to achieve his ton, off 186 balls. Juyal took 230 deliveries to achieve the three-figure mark, smashing Shreyas and Mohsin for a six every within the course of.

However quickly after his skipper notched up his ton, Kaushik misplaced endurance as he gave Mohsin the cost solely to miscue a slog at extra-cover.

Shreyas’ day-long try to bowl from across the wicket to the right-handers to utilize the tough exterior leg-stump reaped dividends when the left-handed Rituraj Sharma received an inside edge to the short-leg fielder.

The leg-spinner’s ploy received one other nod of approval when Juyal gloved a sweep to the slip fielder and walked away dejected.

The scores:

Uttar Pradesh – 1st innings: 89.

Karnataka – 1st innings: 275.

Uttar Pradesh – 2nd innings: Abhishek Goswami lbw b Vidyadhar 3, Madhav Kaushik c Pandey b Mohsin 134, Aryan Juyal c Jose b Shreyas 109, Rituraj Sharma c Manohar b Shreyas 0, Sameer Rizvi c Smaran b Mohsin 30, Aaditya Sharma (batting) 24, Kritagya Singh (batting) 5; Extras (b-8, lb-2, w-5, nb-5): 20; Complete (for 5 wkts. in 110 overs): 325.

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-254, 3-255, 4-273, 5-320.

Karnataka bowling: Koushik 23-6-36-0, Vidyadhar 23-3-87-1, Parantap 9-0-39-0, Mohsin 28-4-70-2, Shreyas 27-0-83-2.