Skipper Mayank Agarwal’s 18th First Magnificence hundred lifted the pall of gloom that had descended over the Karnataka dressing room since the second one day when play was once referred to as off because of a rainy outfield.
The Indian global’s knock, studded with 12 fours, ensured the customer returned house with a minimum of 3 issues after taking a primary innings lead of 144 runs in a ‘Workforce C’ Ranji Trophy fixture in opposition to Bihar, on the Moin-ul-Haq stadium right here on Monday.
The outfield, nonetheless peculiarly damp from Saturday evening’s rain, not on time the beginning of lawsuits at the 3rd day.
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The fit, which ultimately went underway after Lunch, noticed the Bihar physiotherapist put in additional yards than lots of the fielders within the circle inside the first hour.
Kundan Kumar made an look on 4 separate events to nurse the wounds of Sraman Nigrodh (two times), Sakib Hussain and Babul Kumar.
The one factor which repeated extra often than those anomalous cameos was once Sakib’s foot straying past the popping crease – he had 5 no balls earlier than opener Sujay Sateri edged to Vaibhav Suryavanshi at 2nd slip, and 13 total at Stumps.
A couple of overs after Mayank got here to the crease, Nikin Jose was once deceived by way of a ball which hung low to sneak previous his ahead press. Later, Smaran Ravichandran’s supporting position was once lower quick by way of the left-arm orthodox spin of Vaibhav, bowling his maiden First-Magnificence over.
On a slow pitch, Mayank used his immense wealth of revel in to pierce the gaps. Manish Pandey, combining along with his captain for a century partnership and scoring a fifty of his personal, performed the aggressor with a strike price of 101.82, cracking 5 fours and muscling two sixes over long-on and deep midwicket.
Leggie Himanshu Singh performed wrecker-in-chief, doing away with now not simplest each the set batters but additionally Abhinav Manohar, who on his red-ball debut had a brief however stroke-filled keep within the center.
After V. Vyshak Vijaykumar fell for nought, the umpires deemed it too darkish for the sport to move on.
Transient ratings
Bihar – 1st innings: 143
Karnataka – 2d innings: 287 (Mayank Agarwal 105, Manish Pandey 56; Himanshu 4/51)
Karnataka leads by way of 144 runs at Stumps on Day 3