Duleep Trophy highlights, Day 3: India B 150/6 vs India A at Stumps; India C beats India D by 4 wickets

India C defeated India D by four wickets where Manav Suthar starred with seven-wicket haul. 

Meanwhile, a quickfire 61 by Pant has extended India B’s lead to 240. However, two wickets in the last 30 minutes of the day have given India A some smiles. An exciting Day 4 awaits. 

Khaleel Ahmed strikes in the last over of the day! Nithish Reddy ends up nicking the ball to the keeper. What a way to end the day. Stumps has been taken. India B leads by 240 runs. 

Nithish Reddy and Washington Sundar are looking to bat through the day. Just 15 minutes more remaining. The lead is now 235 runs. 

Pant is gone. He tries to play a sweep off Tanush Kotian but gets a top edge instead. The fielder at fine leg takes good diving catch. Pant goes for a well-made 61 off 47 balls. 

Short ball from Avesh Khan, swinging in for Pant and he pulled away nonchalantly to get another maximum. The lead is now 220. 

A down-the-ground six followed by a single brings 50 for Rishabh Pant in just 34 deliveries. The innings had nine four and a six. 

Some attacking shots were played by Pant and Nitish K Reddy as both these batters did not let the momentum go away even after Sarfaraz’s wicket. 

Time for drinks break. 

100 up for India B after Nitish K Reddy got off the mark with a boundary. 

Sarfaraz could only add one more run to his total before Avesh Khan undone him. India B four down under 100. 

Sarfaraz moves to 45 as India B nears the 100-run mark. 

Suthar gets the winning run for India C! A comprehensive win in the end for Ruturaj Gaikwad’s team. 

India C 233/6 vs India D

Okay, so Porel and Suthar have enough of defending. They are swinging their arms to get every possible run quickly. India C is just a run away from taking this match. 

Rishabh Pant and Sarfaraz Khan complete 50-run stand for the fourth wicket in just 29 deliveries. Brilliant strategy to change the momentum of the match. 

Manav Suthar played 30 deliveries to open his account. Abishek Porel needs to take up the responsibility to win the match for India C here. 

200 up for India C which needs only 33 runs to win the match. 

Sarfaraz is showing his range. He hits Akash Deep for five consecutive FOURS to take 20 runs off the first over after tea. First, he cut the short ball outside off, then plays a cracking covers drive on the front foot. He followed it by tucking the down-the-leg ball on deep mid-wicket, then placed the length ball over extra cover before cutting the last ball again. 

In walk the India B batters Sarfaraz Khan and Rishabh Pant. Akash Deep starts the proceedings for India A. 

It isn’t one sided as it looks. Although India C only needs 35 runs, India D is only four wickets away to defend. Saransh’s four wickets has brought a life back into this game. Interesting next 45 minutes coming. And that will be it for this game. 

Three quick wickets have brought India A back into the game. Rishabh Pant and Sarfaraz Khan are at crease and will need to do a rebuilding job in the next session. 

Third wicket in quick succession for India A. Akash Deep gets Easwaran caught behind. Lead is 112 runs. Rishabh Pant joins Sarfaraz Khan at the crease. 

Axar Patel strikes and Hrithik Shokeen falls for a five-ball duck. The match is taking an interesting turn with only four wickets remaining and still 42 runs left. Abhishek Porel and Manav Suthar at the crease now. 

Centurion from the last innings isn’t able to open his account this time. Musheer Khan falls for a four-ball duck! Akash Deep strikes. Celebration all around in the India A camp. 

Baba Indrajith tries to go for a slog, ends up hitting it high in the air. Saransh strikes again, his fourth wicket. Five down India C with still 43 to get. 

Khaleel Ahmed gets Jaiswal caught behind. Unlucky for the left hander, another down the leg ball that clipped the edge of the bat. He falls for 9. 

The lead has gone past 100 now. A lot depends on India A seamers to make use of the new ball. So far, the batters are winning the battle. 

India D bowlers are trying to make a much out of this. However, Porel and Indrajith are looking comfortable right now with just 51 runs more needed to win. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhimanyu Easwaran open for India B. They lead by 90 runs. 

Is the match in Anantapur tilting? India D will definitely feel like it. Arshdeep Singh removes set batter Aryan Juyal on 47 to give a glimmer of hope to his team. India C needs 60 more to win. 

Abishek Porel joins Indrajith. 

Sai Kishore castles Khaleel Ahmed for his second wicket. With this, the India A innings comes to an end as it concedes a 90-run lead against India B. 

Ah, finally a breakthrough for India D! But it looks too little too late as India C needs just 68 runs. Patidar was stumped after he missed reading the line as Saransh picked his third scalp of the innings. A clean glovework from KS Bharat behind the wicket. 

Patidar made 77-ball 44. Baba Indrajith comes out to bat with Juyal.

Musheer is doing a phenomenal job! He dove on his left at deep mid-wicket to remove Akash Deep this time. Mukesh, who was hit for a six earlier in the over, made amends quickly to pick his third wicket of the match. 

Khaleel Ahmed is the last man at the crease for India A. 

Sai Kishore strikes! Tanush Kotian has to depart. Kishore gets a sharp turn for the right-hander and the ball was deflected off the pads after taking a faint edge. Musheer at forward short leg completes the catch to help India B get the eighth wicket. 

Kotian goes back after scoring 71-ball 32. Avesh Khan is the new batter.

India C is moving strongly for a win in Anantapur. The Shreyas Iyer side will need a flurry of wickets to make a breakthrough. Patidar moves to 40 while Juyal is in the 30s. 

Tanush Kotian has looked really impressive throughout the innings. He has punished all the loose deliveries and respected all the good ones with his solid defence until now. This innings is more or less on his shoulders as he will look to cut down the lead as much as possible. 

Spinners on in both Bengaluru and Anantapur post Lunch. Slight turn, nothing much to worry for the batters as of now. 

India C 123/2 vs India D, needs 110 more to win. Rajat Patidar and Aryan Juyal at the crease.

India A 215/7 vs India B, trailing by 106 runs. Tanush Kotian and Akash Deep at crease. 

A few dropped shoulders starting to stand out in India D. The two wickets from Saransh seemed to have upped the spirits in the D camp but Juyal and Patidar’s recalibration has again put India C in the driver’s seat. The target, just 124 runs away, seems in sight. If the scoring rate stays the same, C might not even need the full quota overs today.

-Abhishek Saini from Anantapur.

Lunch has been taken in the India A vs India B match as well. Tanush Kotian and Akash Deep added 7 runs for the eighth wicket. 

India A continues to trail by 113 runs. 

The Patidar and Juyal pair takes India C past 100. The duo has stabilised the innings which was disrupted by two quick wickets. 

Lunch taken in Anantapur as India C needs 124 runs to win. 

Mukesh traps Kuldeep in front from around the wicket. The ball kept low, Kuldeep was late in his defence too and India A lost its seventh wicket as a result.

Kuldeep falls for 1.

Akash Deep in at no. 9. India A trails by 120 runs. 

Saransh Jain picks his second wicket! Ruturaj Gaikwad’s stay at the middle ended after he edged an outside off delivery. Shreyas Iyer picked a sharp catch at slip. 

Gaikwad missed out on his fifty, got out after scoring 46 off 48 deliveries. 

Rajat Patidar is the new batter in at no. 4. 

Shivam Dube falls for 20. Mukesh Kumar induces an edge, and the ball goes towards third slip and a terrific catch by the fielder, diving. 

Gaikwad looks in great touch and is closing in on his fifty. The spinners have somewhat brought down the scoring rate. India C needs 157 more to win. 

Breakthrough for India D as Sai Sudharsan departs for 22. Saransh Jain lures the left hander into drive, and he ends up getting caught at covers. 

Shivam Dube and Tanush Kotian have switched gears in the last 15 minutes. Still a long way to go for India A though, 134 still to trail. 

Gaikwad and Sudharsan continue to score runs with ease. Shreyas Iyer has brought in spinners early in the innings. Not much discomfort though for the batters so far. 

After 111 balls of defending and playing with soft hands, KL Rahul finally looked to switch gears but ends up getting bowled. Tried to paddle sweep Washington Sundar, got a slight edge and the ball crashed into the leg stump. Went too far across and all three stumps were exposed. Rahul falls for 37. 

Plethora of boundaries right at the start of the chase. Both Gaikwad and Sudharsan are finding the fence easily. Not much movement too with the new ball for seamers to take advantage of. 

KL Rahul has continued to bat the way he was batting yesterday evening: focusing on defence. He has scored 36 off 108 balls. Shivam Dube is the new batter at the other end. 

A good start for India C. Already three boundaries for Gaikwad inside two overs. India C needs 218 more to win. 

7 wickets for Manav Suthar as India D is bowled out for 236. Aditya Thakare is the last wicket to fall. Quicker delivery that crashed into the stumps. Suthar ends up with 7/49.

India C needs 233 runs to win. 

New batter Dhruv Jurel falls for just two as Navdeep Saini traps him in front. Nip backer and Jurel was late to put bat behind the ball. Saini gets his third wicket. 

Axar Patel and Harshit Rana have looked comfortable this morning. Haven’t shied away from opening their arms and also have been solid with the defence. Manav Suthar has mostly bowled from over the wicket, looking to bring rough into the play. Lead is now 232. 

OUT! Axar Patel is gone. Manav, once again bowled outside off, luring Axar to go big. The left-hander accepted the challenge and ended up hitting straight to long off. Axar falls for 28.

A rather unlucky dismissal as Parag ends up getting a faint edge off a down the leg ball by Yash Dayal. Parag is disappointed to firstly not be able to put it away for four and then getting out in the process. He falls for 30 off 64 balls. 

Axar takes an aggressive approach against Manav Suthar. A dropped catch at long off from Hrithik Shokeen helped him get a boundary and he followed it up with a six over long on. 

Axar Patel and Harshit Rana are also ready in Anantapur. Vijaykumar Vyshak will start the proceedings on day 3. 

The overnight unbeaten batters, KL Rahul and Riyan Parag walk out. They will look to consolidate for India A from here on. 

IND A vs IND B

India A 134/2 vs India B

IND C vs IND D

India D 206/8 & 164 vs India C 168

Manav Suthar’s late incursions with a five-wicket haul ensured India C was not batted out of its Duleep Trophy first-round fixture against India D at the Rural Development Trust Stadium in Anantapur on Friday.

The left-arm orthodox claimed four wickets in his final five overs of the day to send India D tail spinning from 186 for four to 203 for eight.

His most decisive breakthrough was Ricky Bhui, whom he trapped leg-before three deliveries after getting hoicked for a six over long on.

Read Abhishek Saini’s day 2 match report here from Anantapur:

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IND C vs IND D: The left-arm orthodox Suthar claimed four wickets in his final five overs of the day to send India D tail spinning from 186 for four to 203 for eight.

The Duleep Trophy encounter between India-A and India-B was delicately poised at stumps on day two at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Friday.

After India-B folded for 321, half an hour into the post-lunch session, India-A reached 134 for two by close, with Riyan Parag (27 batting, 49b, 4x4) and K.L. Rahul (23 batting, 80b, 3x4) at the crease.

Skipper Shubman Gill (25, 43b, 3x4) and Mayank Agarwal (36, 45b, 8x4) began well, putting on 57 runs for the opening wicket, with the duo’s cover drives standing out.

Read N. Sudarshan’s day 2 match report from Bengaluru here:

Duleep Trophy 2024: India A trails by 187 runs at the end of day 2 with KL Rahul and Riyan Parag at the crease

The Duleep Trophy encounter between India-A and India-B was delicately poised at stumps on day two at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday.

India A:

Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

India B:

Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK)

India C:

Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier

India D:

Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson (WK)

Where will India A vs India B Duleep Trophy match be played?

The India A vs India B Duleep Trophy match will be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Where will India C vs India D Duleep Trophy match be played?

The India C vs India D Duleep Trophy match will be played at Rural Development Trust Stadium “A” in Ananthapur.

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Where to watch Duleep Trophy India C vs India D match?

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