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Jammu and Kashmir scored the most memorable win in their history when they defeated Ranji champions Madhya Pradesh by two wickets in a high-scoring Vijay Hazare Trophy Group D match at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Opener Yash Dubey bowled a run-a-ball 121 (13x4s), while his opening partner Abhishek Bhandari made 74 (81b; 9x4s, 2x6s) as Madhya Pradesh posted 342 for 9 after being asked to bat. Scored a huge score. But J&K struck a blow in the form of the opener’s half-century Vivrant Sharma (69) Henan Nazir (68) and Abdul Samadi (66) first laid the foundation Abid Mushtaq Played a tremendous counter-innings of 42 runs in 19 balls for the win.
Mushtaq hit three sixes and as many fours avesh khan And Kuldeep Sen, But there was drama in store when Avesh (3/86) dismissed him in the 47th with J&K needing 31 off 21 balls.
Sahil Lotra (23 not out from 11b; 4x4s) kept his composure to chase down the target with four balls to spare.
Aqib Nabi (11 not out; 9 balls, 1×4) provided good support as the pair after the dismissal of Mushtaq in an unbroken 34-run partnership for the ninth wicket.
But at the innings break, it looked an impossible chase for the Jammu and Kashmir batsmen, who started on a cautious note.
Openers Sharma and Jatin Wadhawan (17) shared an 81-run partnership off the same number of balls, but off-spinner Saransh Jain chased down the two batsmen after adding just 19 runs.
They were staring at the barrel after skipper Shubham Pundir (6) was dismissed cheaply as they needed 230 off 167 balls.
But Samad did the damage control with a 117-run partnership with Nazir. Avesh dismissed both of them except for just 11 runs.
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Thereafter, it was Mushtaq who launched a perfect counter-attack to keep J&K in the hunt. In Group D, Baroda climbed to the top of the table, followed by Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir on net-run rate.
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