Published: Sep 13, 2016, 11:42 AM (IST)
Edited: Sep 13, 2016, 11:43 AM (IST)
India Blue will come out on Day Four of the Duleep Trophy Final against India Red, to assert further dominance and extend their lead. Catch the live cricket streaming of this Duleep Trophy 2016-17 game, between India Red and India Blue on hotstar and starsports.com, along with the live telecast on StarSports HD 4 and StarSports 4. Day Three ended with India Blue’s score reading 1 for no loss, and a lead of 338 runs in their bag. India Red were bowled out for 356, as left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took figures of 5 for 95. Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Stuart Binny, Kuldeep Yadav and Amit Mishra did play valuable knocks but their effort was just not enough at the end of India Red’s first innings. READ: Duleep Trophy Final, Day 3 Report: Ravindra Jadeja’s 5-for gives India Blue 338-run lead against India Red
Pankaj Singh, Karn Sharma took two wickets each whereas Abhimanyu Mithun took one wicket for Gautam Gambhir’s India Blue. Earlier on Day Three, Yuvraj Singh was the first wicket to fall, as the India Red captain was caught by Cheteshwar Pujara off the bowling of Mithun. Shikhar Dhawan was next to depart. Jadeja soon sprung into action nabbing the key wicket of Shikhar Dhawan on 29. After his dismissal Gurkeerat scored his Tenth First-Class fifty. He was dismissed by Jadeja. Binny meanwhile played a fine 98-run knock, that included 12 fours and 4 sixes.
The lower-order, including Yadav and Mishra scored half-centuries each, to help India Red inch towards India Blue’s first innings score but when Mishra was dismissed by Sharma, caught by Pankaj Singh trying to go for a big one, the eighth wicket was down for India Red. Jadeja then took his fifth wicket, as he trapped Pradeep Sangwan in front. Yadav was the last man out for India Red.
