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Kerala made it to the finals with a 2 -run lead in the first innings.
This time the Ranji Trophy final will be played between Kerala and Vidarbha. Vidarbha defeated Mumbai by 80 runs in the semi -finals on Friday. At the same time, Kerala reached the finals due to taking a 2 -run lead in the first innings against Gujarat.
The Ranji Trophy final will be played between Vidarbha and Kerala on 26 February. Which venue will match the match, it is yet to be finalized. Kerala has made it to Ranji’s finals for the first time.
Semifinal-1: Vidarbha defeated Mumbai
On the 5th day of the match at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur, Mumbai started playing ahead with a score of 83/3. The team got a target of 406 runs. Akash Anand was dismissed for 39 runs. After him, Shivam Dubey could score 12 and Suryakumar Yadav could score only 23 runs.
The team lost 5 wickets for 115 runs. From here Shams Mulani scored 46, Shardul Thakur 66, Tanush Kotian 26, Mohit Awasthi 34 and Royston Das scored 23 runs. The team was reduced to 325 and Vidarbha won the match by 80 runs.
Mumbai could only score 320 runs in the second innings.
Mumbai lagged behind in the first innings
Harsh Dubey took 5 wickets from Vidarbha. Yash Thakur and Parth Rekhade got 2-2 wickets. 1 batter runout was also done. In the first innings, Vidarbha scored 383 and Mumbai scored 270 runs. In the second innings, Vidarbha gave a target of 406 runs to Mumbai by scoring 292 runs.
Yash Rathore from Vidarbha scored a century in the second innings.
Semifinal-2: Kerala gets 2 runs lead
On the 5th day at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat started playing ahead of the score of 429/7. Kerala scored 457 runs in the first innings. Jaymeet Patel from Gujarat was dismissed for 79 runs.
For the lead in the first innings, Gujarat now needed 22 runs. Siddharth Desai was dismissed as the 9th wicket by scoring 30 runs. Arjan Nagwaswala and Priyjitsingh Jadeja batting for 10 overs and scored to 455 runs.
Aditya Sarwate came for bowling. Arjan played the fourth ball of the over on the backfoot, the ball hit the fielder’s helmet standing on the short leg. Sachin went into the hands of Sachin Baby in the ball first slip, he caught the catch and Gujarat was reduced to 455.
Sarwate-Saxena takes 4-4 wickets
Kerala took a 2 -run lead in the first innings, based on this lead, the team won. By the end of the day’s play, Kerala scored 114 runs losing 4 wickets in the second innings. Jalaj Saxena and Aditya Sarwate from Kerala took 4-4 wickets in the first innings. MD Nidhesh and N Basil got 1–1 wickets.
Vidarbha 2 -time champion
Vidarbha made it to the final of the Ranji Trophy for the fourth time. The team will play the final for the second consecutive time. The last time he was defeated by Mumbai. At the same time, the team has also become champions by defeating Delhi in 2017-18 and Saurashtra in 2018-19. On the other hand, Kerala will play the Ranji Trophy final for the first time.
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