By: TP News     Date: 2/23/2020 1:00:23 PM

Jammu :

Jammu & Kashmir are on course to cause the upset of the season in Ranji Trophy. After bowling Karnataka out for a paltry 206 in a weather-affected quarterfinal, the underdogs reached 88 for two at stumps on Day 3 in Jammu. With almost two days washed out, first-innings lead could prove to be decisive and the hosts look good to get it.

Starting at 14 for two, Karnataka lost skipper Karun Nair for three to slump to 14 for three. Manish Pandey struck a 27-ball 36, but his departure made it 75 for four. Despite No 4 KV Siddharth’s 189-ball 76, Karnataka failed to get close to a kind of total they would have liked. For J&K, skipper Parvez Rasool, Auqib Nabi and Mujtaba Yousuf took three wickets each. The J&K team lost advantage after it was all out at 194.

Lauding captain Parvez Rasool and mentor Irfan Pathan, Ranjeet Karla, J&K’s representative in the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said, “We are honoured to host this quarter-final in Jammu. Our team reaching the knockout stage of the Ranji Trophy is a testimony to the hard work of players led by Parvez Rasool. The credit also goes to Irfan Pathan for his mentoring.”

Calling cricket a ‘unifying’ factor, Karla stated, “Thousands of cricket lovers had turned up for this match. I was glad to see that scores of them had come from the Kashmir Valley. Cricket really unites people.”