Internet Desk: Saurabh Tiwary led Jharkhand beat Haryana by five wickets, as they chased down a target of 175 runs in the fourth-innings on the final day of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final encounter at the Moti Bagh Stadium on Monday.
Haryana, who were 146/2 at the end of third day’s play, were bowled out for 262 runs as left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem took 4/78 for a match figure of 11/157. Leggie Samar Quadri picked 3/75 in the second innings.
Jharkhand, who had a first innings lead of 87 runs, chased down the total in a hurry, thanks to opener Ishan Kishan’s blistering knock of a 61-ball 86.
Haryana would be ruing a middle-order batting collapse as they were nicely placed at 146-2 on the third day with a lead of 59 runs.
Shivam Chauhan and Chaitanya Bishnoi, who were unbeaten on their individual scores of 33 and 22 respectively, handled the first hour of play quite well. They had shared a 87-run stand for the third wicket when Nadeem gave Jharkhand the breakthrough by removing Shivam (43), with Haryna at 178-3.
Nadeem then dismissed Rajat Paliwal (2), while Kaushal Singh got into the act by getting the key wicket of Bishnoi (52) to ignite Jharkhand’s hopes as Haryana were reduced to 188-5.
Nadeem struck again, getting a LBW decision for Rohit Sharma and Amit Mishra (0) ran himself out as they crumbled. Till then, Haryana were 193-7, with a lead of merely 106 runs.
Lower-order batsmen Sanjay Pahal (29), Harshal Patel (25) and Yuzvendra Chahal (12) tried their level best to push Haryana’s total. Quadri sent back Sanjay, while Harshal was accounted for by Rahul Shukla.