Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 22: Jammu and Kashmir lost the advantage of winning the toss and early breakthrough as Bengal after losing their first wicket in the innings, were comfortably placed at 331/4 at the draw of stumps on Day-1 of the CK Nayudu Trophy match against J&K at Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, New Delhi, today.
Put into bat by J&K skipper, Shubham Singh Pundir, Bengal lost the wicket of opening batsman Shakir Habib Gandhi at his individual score of one and the team’s total of 9 runs in 4 overs.
However, another opening batsman Ankur Paul and centurion Sudip Kumar Gharami made a brilliant partnership of 163 runs, thus taking the score to 173 runs in 43.2 overs before Paul was dismissed at his individual score of 87 runs off 138 balls, studded with 15 delectable boundaries. Gharami continued his brilliance and alongwith his skipper Kazi Junaid Saifi and took the score to 233/3 in 65.2 overs before his dismissal after slamming a magnificent ton (115 runs off 188 balls), studded with 17 fours and 2 massive sixes.
Skipper Saifi was unbeaten on 64 runs off 135 balls with 10 fours, while wicketkeeper batsman, Abishek Porel was at the crease on 41 runs off 37 balls including 8 boundaries at stumps today.
For Jammu and Kashmir, Auqib Nabi, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Abid Mushtaq and Shubham Singh Pundir shared one wicket each.
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