Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 10: Himachal Pradesh were in comfort zone against Jammu and Kashmir as their middle-order batsman, Nikhil Gangta slammed a double century and helped his team to score a mammoth total of 554 runs to earn sizeable first innings lead of 261 runs in Ranji Trophy Group-C match at Dharamshala, today.
According to the reports reaching here, J&K were 85/1 in their second easy when the stumps were drawn on third day today. Make-shift opener Waseem Raza was unbeaten on 38 and promising youngster Paras Sharma on 14 not out. Opener Shubham Khajuria was sent back to pavilion at his individual score of 31 runs.
Earlier, resuming from an overnight score of 300/5, HP rode on a marathon double century by Nikhil Gangta (203) and splendid century by Vipul Sharma (117), made a decent total of 554 runs to gain a lead of 261 runs. Rishi Dhawan (66), Robin Bist (66) and Ankush Bains (37) were the other contributors. For Jammu and Kashmir, skipper Parvez Rasool, who scored an unbeaten century (114*) in the first innings, was the pick of the bowlers, scalping 3 important wickets by conceding 140 runs in his marathon spell of 39.4 overs, while speedsters Ramdayal Punia and Umar Nazir took 2 wickets each and Mohd Mudhasir claimed one wicket.
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