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Malewar, Nair Put Vidarbha on Top in Ranji Trophy Final Against Kerala
Hindustan Times Thane
|February 27, 2025
Karun Nair is at that stage of his career where he'll remember the run out that denied him a hundred in the final of the Ranji Trophy.
NAGPUR: He'll remember it and perhaps the national selection committee will too.
A terrible mix-up with Danish Malewar prevented Nair from notching what could have been his fourth hundred in this Ranji season but Vidarbha, nevertheless, reached a position of strength as their 215-run partnership for the fourth wicket helped them close the first day on 254/4.
Malewar is batting on 138, showing exceptional composure tempered by a fair bit of atonement for what Nair missed out on because of that mix-up.
Kerala's seamers had struck early thrice, leaving Vidarbha tottering at 24/3 but Nair and Malewar's strong fightback at the VCA Stadium gave the first-time finalists a very good idea of what they are up against. The pair consumed as many as 414 deliveries across the three sessions, mixing caution with aggression to give Vidarbha a strong footing in the summit clash.
But it ended abruptly against the flow of the game, when both Nair and Malewar went for a non-existent run which ended up in the dismissal of the former, 14 runs short of a deserving century.
This story is from the February 27, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Thane.
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