New Delhi. The journey of another team from Ranji Trophy 2023-24 has come to a halt. Vidarbha has made it to the finals of Ranji Trophy by defeating Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh, which performed well in the entire tournament, was given the target of 321 runs to win the Ranji Trophy Semi Finals. MP team had started well, so its fans were hopeful of victory. But Vidarbha took the last 6 wickets of Madhya Pradesh by giving away just 63 runs. In this way, while Madhya Pradesh’s journey ended, Vidarbha reached the finals. Now he will face Mumbai in the final. Mumbai is now eyeing its 42nd title.
The Ranji Trophy semi-final between Vidarbha and Madhya Pradesh was played in Nagpur. On the first day of the match, Vidarbha team was reduced to 170 runs and it seemed that its chances of victory had reduced. On this, Madhya Pradesh scored 252 runs in its first innings. In this way he got an important lead of 82 runs. In this way, after 2 innings of the match, Madhya Pradesh had the upper hand. But Vidarbha made the game exciting by scoring 402 runs in their second innings.
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Madhya Pradesh had a target of 321 runs to win. In reply, at one time he had scored 157 runs for 2 wickets. Then it seemed that Madhya Pradesh could win the match. But Vidarbha quickly took 2 wickets and reduced the score from 157/2 to 165/4. Vidarbha took 2 more wickets of Madhya Pradesh by the end of the fourth day’s play. In this way, by the end of the game on Tuesday, Madhya Pradesh’s score was 228 runs for 6 wickets. That means Vidarbha had started tightening its grip on the match.
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On the last day of the match, Vidarbha bowlers again showed their brilliance and bowled out Madhya Pradesh for 258 runs. In this way, Madhya Pradesh, which had once scored 195 runs for 4 wickets, was reduced to 258. That means Madhya Pradesh lost its last six wickets by adding just 63 runs.
Yash Rathore, Aman Mokhade and Karun Nair played important roles in taking Vidarbha to the final. Yash scored a century in the second innings against Madhya Pradesh. Aman gave good support to Yash by scoring 59 runs and Karun scored 38 runs. Karun Nair had scored the maximum of 63 runs for his team in the first innings. Karun Nair is only the second Indian to score a triple century in Test cricket.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 6, 2024, 11:05 IST