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Mithun announces his arrival with a five-for

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MEERUT: After Manish Pandey on Tuesday, it was the turn of another 20-year-old Karnataka-lad A. Mithun to come good in the midst of big boys. This well-built debutant medium-pacer announced his arrival in first-class cricket with a five-wicket haul and left Uttar Pradesh in trouble at the halfway stage of the Ranji Trophy Super League match here.

By stumps on the second day, U.P. had limped to 214 for eight after it managed to restrict Karnataka’s first innings to 405. The host still needs 42 runs to avoid the possibility of being asked to follow-on.

U.P.’s hopes rest on wicketkeeper Mohammad Amir Khan (50 batting, 1x6, 5x4) and his ongoing 57-run ninth-wicket stand with Praveen Gupta (21 batting, 3x4). The duo has already frustrated the visiting team for 58 minutes.

For the second straight day, the first hour proved the best for U.P. before Karnataka asserted its superiority. If three wickets came U.P.’s way in the opening hour on Tuesday, the last five Karnataka wickets fell in a heap on Wednesday for the addition of just 33 runs to the overnight score of 372 for five.

In the post-tea session, with Mithun away owing to cramps, U.P. improved its chances of reaching the target of 256, with some fine counter-attack, mainly from Khan.

The scores:

Karnataka — 1st innings: K.B. Pawan lbw b Shalabh 15, Robin Uthappa lbw b R.P. Singh 0, Amit Verma lbw b Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 5, Rahul Dravid (run out) 97, Manish Pandey c Tanmay b Shalabh 194, Thilak Naidu b Bhuvaneshwar 12, B. Akhil c Khan b Bhuvaneshwar 28, Sunil Joshi lbw b Bhuvaneshwar 6, R. Vinay Kumar c Chawla b Shalabh 6, Udit Patel c R.P. Singh b Shalabh 5, A. Mithun (not out) 0, Extras (b-8, lb-14, n-13, w-2) 37, Total: 405.

Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-27, 3-27, 4-300, 5-327, 6-372, 7-382, 8 393, 9-400.

Uttar Pradesh bowling: R.P. Singh 19-3-75-1, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 30-5-109-4, Shalabh Srivastava 24-2-76-4, Piyush Chawla 13-1-71-0, Praveen Gupta 12-3-32-0, Parwinder Singh 5-1-20-0.

Uttar Pradesh — 1st innings: Tanmay Srivastava c Naidu b Mithun 30, Shivakant Shukla c Pandey b Vinay 5, Ravikant Shukla c Akhil b Mithun 27, Mohammad Kaif lbw b Mithun 0, Parvinder Singh c Pandey b Mithun 32, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar lbw b Vinay 10, Piyush Chawla c Naidu b Mithun 2, Mohammad. Amir Khan (batting) 50, R. P. Singh c Verma b Patel 10, Praveen Gupta (batting) 21, Extras: (b-8, lb-8 nb-3, w-8) 27, Total: (for eight wickets) 214.

Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-44, 3-44, 4-87, 5-116, 6-125, 7-130, 8-157.

Karnataka bowling: Vinay Kumar 19-7-51-2, Mithun 16-2-63-5, Akhil 11-4-19-0, Joshi 15-7-21-0, Patel 11-4-31-1, Verma 3-0-13-0.

Super League: At Chandigarh: Punjab 259 in 90.2 overs (Ravi Inder Singh 104, M.S. Gony 41, Zaheer Khan four for 60, A. Agarkar four for 43) vs. Mumbai 244 for seven in 80 overs (S. Kukreja 90, A. Nayar 53, L. Ablish four for 53).

At Ahmedabad: Gujarat 270 in 100.1 overs (Parthiv Patel 83, R.H. Bhatt 46, Dhiraj Singh four for 97) and four for no loss in five overs vs. Orissa 192 in 70.5 overs (N. Behera 78).

At Pune: Maharashtra 179 and 46 for no loss in 10 overs vs. Bengal 325 in 105.3 overs (M. Tiwary 88, A. Jhunjhunwala 95, S.M. Fallah four for 102).

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad 328 in 118.3 overs (T. Suman 45, Abhinav Kumar 73, A. Qadri 47, M.P. Arjun 71, Vikramjeet Mallik four for 67) vs. Himachal Pradesh 166 for three in 59 overs (Paras Dogra 54 batting, Ajay Mannu 52 batting).

Plate: At Ranchi: Jharkhand 431 in 122.5 overs (S.S. Tiwary 136, Rajiv Kumar 75, S.P. Gautham 95 not out) vs. Tripura 116 for three in 41 overs.

At Guwahati: Rajasthan 228 and 54 for two in 18 overs vs. Assam 189 in 69.3 overs (P. Aziz 53, Pankaj Singh four for 44, Vivek Yadav four for 28).

At Nagpur: Goa 474 in 149.5 overs (S. Sriram 50, R.J. Pinto 46, A. Ratra 121, S.S. Bandekar 100, Azhar Sheikh four for 71) vs. Vidarbha 113 for two in 28 overs (A. Paunikar 47 batting).

At Thalassery: Andhra 442 in 174.2 overs (Y. Venugopal Rao 69, B. Sumanth 117, K.S. Shahabuddin 120) vs. Kerala 10 for no loss in three overs.

At Indore: Haryana 546 in 143 overs (R. Dewan 71, Sunny Singh 312, Sumeet Sharma 45) vs. Madhya Pradesh 116 for one in 35 overs (J. Saxena 43 batting).

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