Duleep Trophy LIVE Score, Round 2 Day 2: Mulani eyes maiden hundred for IND A vs IND D; Ruturaj nears fifty for C | Cricket News
A few more hundreds of similar nature as this at Anantapur in the coming months, and the road back to international cricket would look shorter. (File/PTI)
Ishan Kishan slams hundred in Duleep Trophy to begin his comeback from notoriety
Ten months after his last appearance for the country, Ishan Kishan made his first comeback step in Anantapur. Dispelling a dark spell in his career, when he was out of the team not so much for the lack of runs as for his alleged indiscipline, he cracked a stroke-filled hundred for India C against India B in Anantapur, to emphasise that he has the control and character to reclaim the national stripes again.
The 126-ball 111 is the sort of counterattacking treatise that leaves an impression in the selectors memory. It’s easy to dismiss a score of 111 in a total of 357 for 5 as a happenstance. The standard assumptions roll forth—flatbed, flaccid attack and no stakes.
The reality was different. India C had lost two wickets in three balls, captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was in the pavilion retired hurt and India B has a sufficiently well-worn attack that features Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, both Test have-beens, the rising seam-bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy and the resourceful spin trio of Washington Sundar, Sai Kishore and Rahul Chahar. This was a slippery juncture, made to look rosier Kishan’s verve. (READ MORE)
