Vidarbha seamer Darshan Nalkande created history by taking four wickets against Karnataka in the semi-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 on Saturday. Nalkande has become the second Indian player to achieve this feat in T20 cricket. Abhimanyu Mithun had made this claim in the last season.
It was the final over of the first innings, with Nalkande dismissing Anirudh Joshi, BR Sharath, J Suchit and Abhinav Manohar in successive deliveries as Karnataka posted 176/7 in 20 balls. The 23-year-old pacer scored 4/28 runs in his quota of four overs.
However, Vidarbha lost the close match by 4 runs as Karnataka set up a summit clash against defending champions Tamil Nadu to reach the final.
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Asked to bat at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Karnataka scored 176 for seven with Rohan Kadam’s whirlwind 87 off 56 balls and then hit the opposition with right-arm pacer Vidyadhar Patil (1/29) for six. Retained for 172 on the wicket. In the last over.
Patil had 14 runs to defend and the pacer ensured that his side would take on defending champions Tamil Nadu in the summit clash.
Karnataka opener Kadam and skipper Manish Pandey (54 off 42 balls) gave the team an aggressive start while playing with the Vidarbha attack.
Darshan Nalkande wreaked havoc in the middle order with four wickets in four balls in the last over, but by then it was too little and too late.
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Vidarbha openers Atharva Taede (32) and Ganesh Satish (31) put on 177 runs for the first wicket.
But Karnataka bowled out the top four batsmen to bundle out Vidarbha for 103 for four.
Medium pacer Darshan MB then sent back Jitesh Sharma (12) as Vidarbha lost half their team for 122 runs.
(with PTI inputs)
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