Jaipur ∙ Ex-captain Sachin Baby’s brilliant century-old performance failed to save Kerala. Kerala conceded the lead in the Ranji Trophy match against Rajasthan and were bowled out for 306 runs in the first innings. Today, in the third day of the match, Sachin tried to give Kerala a crucial lead in the first innings by pairing trailing, but Rajasthan dashed that hope by falling trailing. Kerala were bowled out for 306 runs in 82.5 overs. Rajasthan scored 337 runs in the first innings with Deepak Hooda’s century and thus got a first innings lead of 31 runs.
Sachin Baby faced 217 balls in the whole innings and went unbeaten with 139 runs. He has 18 fours. Fazil Fanoos (0), MD. Nidhish (four off nine balls) was out on day three. Today, Sachin added 24 runs off 43 balls with Fazil for the ninth wicket and 14 runs off 16 balls with Nidhish for the tenth wicket. When play was stopped on the second day Kerala were on 268 runs for the loss of eight wickets.
Kerala were defeated by Aniket Chaudhary who took five wickets. Chaudhary took five wickets conceding 85 runs in 20.5 overs. Manav Suther conceded 87 runs in 25 overs and took three wickets. Kamlesh Nagarkoti gets one wicket. Akshay Chandran is finished.
Captain Sanju Samson scored 82 runs off 108 balls with 14 fours for Kerala. The backbone of Kerala’s innings was the 145 runs added by Sachin-Sanju for the fourth wicket. Both scored 145 runs in 214 balls. P. Rahul (10 out of 24 balls), Rohan Prem (18 out of 43 balls), Shaun Roger (0), Akshay Chandran (five out of 11 balls), Jalaj Saxena (21 out of 21 balls), Sijomon Joseph (10 out of 48 balls ), Basil Thampi (0) These are the other Kerala players who were out on day two.
English summary: Rajasthan vs Kerala, Elite Group C – Live Cricket Scores
