Arzan Nagwaswalla (16 not out, 22b, 1×4) held his nerve within the firm of final man Priyajitsinh Jadeja to foil Andhra’s plot of ransacking Gujarat’s run chase and secured his facet a one-wicket victory within the Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match on the Narendra Modi Stadium floor B in Ahmedabad on Monday.
Left-arm orthodox Lalith Mohan picked seven wickets, 5 of them coming in a marathon 19-over opening spell that left Gujarat staring down the barrel at 69 for six, to throw the house crew’s pursuit of a modest-looking 144 runs into disarray.
Chintan Gaja (30, 58b, 3×4) appeared heading in the right direction to bail his facet out for a second time within the contest. There appeared little room for edge-of-the-seat thrills throughout his 58-run seventh-wicket affiliation with Jaymeet Patel (32, 87b). However Lalith compelled Jaymeet into chopping one onto his stumps after Tea and rekindled Andhra’s hopes of a heist.
Gaja fell within the subsequent over to a Okay.V. Sasikanth supply that stored perilously low and castled him, leaving his facet 13 in need of its vacation spot with only one wicket in hand.
Nevertheless, Nagwaswalla labored across the discipline setting, picked the gaps and took Gujarat over the road.
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The nail-biting end was within the works from the second session when Andhra opted to open the bowling with the spin duo of Lalith and Tripurana Vijay. The spinners stored the scoring price on a leash and Lalith accounted for openers Rishi Patel and Priyank Panchal inside the primary six overs.
Manan Hingrajia and Umang Kumar took up a battle of attrition towards the spin duo and added 38 for the third wicket. However simply when Umang had set himself to maneuver up in gears, hitting two sixes off Vijay over deep mid-wicket, Lalith obtained a supply to crash into his off stump.
Hingrajia, who relied on padding deliveries pitching outdoors the leg-stump line, was foxed by one which went straight and was caught in need of his crease by Okay.S. Bharat. Ravi Bishnoi’s promotion to quantity six lasted one supply as a mix-up with Jaymeet ran him out.
Urvil Patel turned Lalith’s fifth sufferer when he was caught at foolish level off an out of doors edge, leaving the onus on Gaja and Jaymeet to tug their facet from the brink.
Earlier within the day, Bharat reverted to his throw-caution-to-the-wind method, lofting Siddharth Desai over covers within the first over of the day. A pull over sq. leg and swat down the bottom obtained him 10 runs in Gaja’s over. Trying to decide Desai over mid off, Bharat holed out to the fielder on 47.
Hanuma Vihari may do little towards Desai’s supply that skidded low and castled him. However a 45-run seventh-wicket stand between Nitish Kumar Reddy and Vijay got here to Andhra’s rescue, getting the facet to 297 and serving to it arrange a goal price combating for.