Published: Sep 26, 2017, 01:00 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 26, 2017, 09:37 PM (IST)
Good Afternoon, नमस्कार! Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live blog session of the second day of the Duleep Trophy 2017-18 final tie between India Red and India Blue at Ekana International Cricket Stadium at Lucknow. We will be bringing to you the live updates from this tie. It was a day to celebrate as Prithvi Shaw struck his maiden Duleep Trophy century scoring a stunning 154. He was duly supported by skipper Dinesh Karthik, who also notched up a century. With a pitch that was providing turn and bounce, India Blue were unable to capitalise on the opportunity. As many as eight bowlers were used of which Bhargav Bhatt proved to be fruitful ending the day with figures of 3 for 83.
After a blistering start from Shaw and Karthik, Ishank Jaggi is playing a lone battle at 9, losing partner Baba Indrajith for 4 before the day end. India Red are comfortably placed on 317 for 5. Shaw shared a 211-run third-wicket partnership with Tamil Nadu veteran Karthik, who cracked his 27th ton in First-Class cricket. Shaw and Akhil Herwadkar had provided a decent start of 74 runs for the first wicket before Herwadkar ran himself out for 25. Left-arm spinner Bhatt then accounted for Suryakumar Yadav for 80 to leave India Red at 89 for 2.
Karthik joined Shaw in the middle and the pair saw off the difficult phase before taking on the India Blue bowlers. Shaw hammered 18 fours and one six out of the 249 deliveries he faced. Right-hander Karthik hit 12 fours during his 155-ball innings.
Off-spinner Akshya Wakhare broke the partnership as he got a LBW decision against Karthik on the fourth ball of the 79th over. Shaw fell soon, edging one from Bhatt to wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat, as India Red reached 306 for 4.
Bhatt picked up his third wicket when Indrajith failed to defend a straighter ball and Ishan Kishan took a sharp catch at short leg.
