Salem: On day one of the semifinals of the Duleep Trophy, Malayalee Rohan Kunnummal, who led the innings of the southern region with a brilliant century, was the hero of the third day as well. The player scored half a century in the second inning for the southern region, which came back with a huge lead in the first inning and led the team to victory.
The player opened the innings with Mayank Agarwal and scored 77 points out of 72 balls. Mayank is on edge after half a century. The southern region leads 580 runs with one day to go.
The Northern Region scored 630 points for the loss of eight wickets to the Southern Region for 207 points. Sai Kishore, who was filled with seven wickets, shattered Northern Zone hopes on the third day of play. Krishnappa Gautam took two wickets and Tanay Thiagarajan took one wicket. Not a single hitter crossed the half-century mark in the Northern Zone batting.
Midfielder Nishant Sindhu was the top scorer with 40 points. Beginning with the second inning, South Region adopted a strategy of scoring points quickly and letting opponents beat from the start. Again, North Zone bowling had a hard time breaking the Rohan-Mayank partnership.
Navdeep Seini, the team’s best bowler on day one, didn’t bowling yesterday. Rohan, who completed four centuries in first class in a short time, seemed to pass the three-digit mark again this time, but Khamran Iqbal was caught by Sindhu’s ball.
The 24-year-old held the record of being the first Malaysian player to mark a century in the Duleep Trophy the other day. With the strength of Rohan, Sanju, Vishnu Vinod and Sachin Baby, this time Kerala is expected to reach new heights in home cricket.
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