Captain Devdutt Padikkal scored a century, Karnataka defeated Punjab and reached the quarter-finals of Ranji Trophy.

Summary

Devdutt Padikkal New Delhi: The Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Punjab was being played at the IS Bindra Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali since January 29, which has now ended. Karnataka won the match by 5 wickets, due to which they have reached the quarter-finals of Ranji Trophy. Now they are going to…

Captain Devdutt Padikkal scored a century, Karnataka defeated Punjab and reached the quarter-finals of Ranji Trophy.

Devdutt Padikkal
New Delhi: The Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Punjab was being played at the IS Bindra Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali since January 29, which has now ended. Karnataka won the match by 5 wickets, due to which they have reached the quarter-finals of Ranji Trophy. Now they are going to face Mumbai in the quarter finals. Captain Devdutt Padikkal played an important role in Karnataka’s victory against Punjab.

Devdutt Padikkal was the hero of Karnataka in this match.

Punjab set a target of 250 runs for Karnataka. On the fourth day of the game, Karnataka chased this target in 27.5 overs and made its place in the quarter-finals. Devdutt Padikkal played the captaincy innings. He faced 85 balls in the second innings and scored unbeaten 120 runs while batting at a strike rate of 141.18. Padikkal hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in his innings. He was the hero of his team in this run chase.

The condition of the match was like this

Punjab won the toss and decided to bat first. In such a situation, Punjab scored 309 runs in the first innings. Abhijeet Garg and Immanjot Singh had scored 83-83 runs. Vidyadhar Patil took 4 wickets and Shreyas Gopal took 3 wickets for Karnataka. After this, Karnataka scored 316 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 7 runs. Shreyas Gopal scored the highest 77 runs for Karnataka. KL Rahul also scored 59 runs. Harpreet Brar took 4 wickets and Sukhdeep Bajwa took 3 wickets. Punjab was all out after scoring 256 runs in the second innings. In such a situation, Karnataka got the target of 250 runs. Apart from Devdutt Padikkal’s century, Mayank Agarwal also scored 53 runs for Karnataka while chasing the target of 250 runs. Anmoljeet Singh and Imanjot Singh took 2-2 wickets for Punjab. Sukhdeep Bajwa also got 1 wicket.