India completed a comprehensive victory over England in the first Test match at Mohali after the tourists were bowled out in their second innings for 235, leaving the home side needing just five runs to win. Anil Kumble took six for 81 as only Graham Thorpe put up any significant resistance. As their captain Nasser Hussain said afterwards, England have a lot of thinking to do before the second Test starts in Ahmedabad next week.It didn’t take India long to prise the first opening this morning, after Mark Butcher and Marcus Trescothick resumed their overnight partnership. Trescothick took two early boundaries with square drives off Yohannan, and Butcher took his first from Yohannan as Sourav Ganguly bungled a dive at extra cover. But Butcher was then fatally late on a pull shot, perishing as the top edge went to the substitute, Jacob Martin, at midwicket.Nasser Hussain showed his current form with two flowing boundaries off Anil Kumble, one through the covers and the other through mid-on. But Yohannan struck again when Trescothick (46) failed to get on top of a hook and was brilliantly caught by Iqbal Siddiqui, running round from the long leg boundary. Hussain then tried to cut a ball from Kumble that was too full for the shot and bounced more than he expected, chopping it into his stumps. The England captain had made 12 and departed with the score on 87 for 3.Graham Thorpe relieved some of the tension with a flowing off drive, and Mark Ramprakash took his first two boundaries with sweeps behind square leg. At lunch England were still 104 runs behind with seven wickets left.The afternoon session started quietly, with the 50 partnership coming up as Ramprakash steered Yohannan past point for three as Harbhajan chased down to third man. Harbhajan himself, inexplicably ignored for much of the morning by his captain, eventually came on to bowl the 53rd over of the innings, and was greeted by a sumptuous drive by Thorpe to the extra cover boundary. Ramprakash produced a quality stroke of his own in Kumble’s next over, deftly using the pace of the ball to run it down for four to third man.But Kumble inflicted another body blow on England when he trapped Ramprakash, plumb lbw back on his stumps with a quicker, skidding delivery to leave England on 159 for 4. Flintoff began with a boundary on his 25th birthday, but that was as far as the celebrations went. He was on his way next ball, caught by Ganguly at silly point off bat and pad to leave England deep in the mire. Craig White also began aggressively, with boundaries off Kumble through the covers and Harbhajan over mid-off.Sadly for White and for England it wasn’t to last. It was a defensive shot that undid White as he pushed forward to Harbhajan; he got a thin outside edge and Dasgupta completed the dismissal. James Foster managed to avoid a pair in his first Test, but had made just five when he tried to sweep Harbhajan just as he had done in the first innings, and was given out lbw by umpire Venkat. James Ormond followed swiftly, bowled off his pads for a duck as he went back to Kumble to leave England on the brink at 207 for 8. England’s final hope was extinguished with Graham Thorpe, who fell for 62, caught and bowled by Kumble as he tried to hit the leg-spinner back down the ground.Shortly after ensuring that India would bat again, England lost their last wicket when Dawson was bowled through the gate by Kumble to leave England 235 all out. India took just two balls to complete their victory as makeshift opener Siddiqui took four off Hoggard to third man and then a single to midwicket. In the end India had done it at a canter, and Anil Kumble was made man of the match for his six for 81.

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Sunny Gupta took three wickets on the third day to keep Jharkhand’s target down to 213 (file photo)•K Sivaraman

In the match of this round, Jharkhand and Assam promised a tight finish on a turning track. At 56 for 2, Jharkhand needed 157 to win this top-of-the-table clash. Assam began the day effectively at 32 for 2, and the innings went this way and that before setting Jharkhand the highest total of the match.Amit Sinha and Hokaito Zhimomi began the day with a threatening stand, but offspinner Sunny Gupta kept Assam honest with a double-strike. His captain Shahbaz Nadeem turned the screws further with a run-out and two wickets to reduce Assam to 127 for 7.Keeping in with the trend of the match, a turnaround was around the corner. Tarjinder Singh added crucial runs with the tail. He put on 33 with Abu Nechim for the eight wicket, 18 with Arup Das for the ninth, and 31 with Arlen Konwar for the last. Konwar scored only three of those 31.Tarjinder then followed it up with the run-out of Jharkhand opener Manish Vardhan, which J Syed Mohammad topped up with the wicket of Ishank Jaggi. However, the last comeback of the day belonged to Jharkhand as first-innings half-centurion Rameez Nemat and Saurabh Tiwary added an unbeaten 37 for the third wicket to leave the game in the balance.
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Paras Dogra joined Jiwanjot Singh and Mukul Dagar as the men with two centuries in the first two matches this season to help set up a declaration for Himachal Pradesh. He made it a nice double, his personal best, and went at a strike-rate of 63 to make sure he gave his time enough time to entertain an outright win.Himachal secured the first-innings lead early enough in the day, and were all intent since then. Dogra hit 25 fours and a six in his effort, and while Amit Singh might have been a little slow in his 91, Sumeet Verma and Rishi Dhawan scored 42 off 40 between them.Dhawan was not done for the day. Opening the bowling, he got rid of Soomik Chatarjee and Shadab Nazar before stumps. Himahcal were looking to avoid the same fate as the first game when Kerala lost only three wickets on the final day to deny them an outright win.
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The home side’s openers made big scores in Porvorim, helping Goa close in on Jammu & Kashmir’s first-innings score of 338 in a slow-scoring game. Amogh Desai, who was making his first-class debut, and Swapnil Asnodkar, who was banned for two matches last season, put on 178 for the first wicket, to lay the base for Goa.Desai was dismissed 15 short of his century by Parvez Rassol, who had top scored for J&K with 171, but Asnodkar went on to complete his ninth first-class hundred. He fell soon after, but Manvinder Bisla, star of this year’s IPL final and playing his first first-class game in two years, made a relatively brisk unbeaten 74 to keep Goa on track to overhaul J&K’s first-innings score. They ended the day only 50 runs behind, with eight wickets in hand.
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Andhra’s openers, Prasanth Kumar and Hemal Watekar, completed their patient centuries to set up the team for a big lead against Tripura in Anantapur. Tripura finally took their first wicket with the score at 227, with Andhra just 33 runs in the arrears, through a run-out by a substitute.Andhra captain AG Pradeep fell cheaply, and Watekar followed after a 44-run stand with B Sumanth. After his duck in the opening game, Sumanth made amends by taking charge of the innings after the openers were dismissed, scoring briskly to make 83 and stretch Andhra’s lead beyond 100. He fell before getting to triple-figures, and his exit sparked a collapse – the last five wickets going down for 39 runs. Still, the first-innings lead was a healthy 176, of which Tripura knocked 21 off before stumps.

ScorecardMegan Schutt picked up 4 for 26 as England went on to the back foot•Getty Images

At 5.52pm, the announcement came that England, at 125 for 5, had avoided the follow on. That they began their first innings at 12.56pm paints as bleak a picture as any of a possibly series-losing day in this Ashes series for an England side battling with some familiar issues.It was on this score that England then lost both Nat Sciver and Georgia Elwiss, who had combined for 32, the joint second-highest partnership in the innings. At the fall of Sciver’s wicket, the run rate dropped below two an over. The statistic that really jars though is that in an innings of 508 legitimate balls, 436 were dots.The question should be asked: did England bring it on themselves? Megan Schutt, who impressed with 4 for 26, reckoned so. With their lead of 106, Australia will look to move the game along on a pitch that Schutt reckons is still very good for batting. She would go so far as to call England’s cricket negative but admitted that Australia were aware they would call on this style, one that saw them secure a draw when the two sides met at Wormsley in 2013. England will need to summon something greater to avoid defeat here.There was little to the English batting that inconvenienced Australia’s impressive seam attack. At times, the hosts shut-up shop completely, with Heather Knight, Lydia Greenway, Sciver and even Charlotte Edwards seemingly unwilling – certainly not unable – to manufacture singles and rotate the strike. Despite the character and skill throughout the batting card, England have a habit of being too safe for their own good. In battening down the hatches, they only ensured that their escape was nigh on impossible.Following a delayed start, Australia declared on 274 for 9, with Jess Jonassen falling one short of what would have been a deserved century and No. 11 Holly Ferling coming out to bat for just one ball.After lunch, the Australia bowlers sensed England’s tepidness and attacked accordingly. In the third over, Ellyse Perry showed her worth by forcing Lauren Winfield to edge behind with a fantastic delivery that got big on the opener. The very next ball, she trapped Sarah Taylor in front of leg stump. The hat-trick ball, to Charlotte Edwards, was negotiated well.Taylor’s duck sees her Test average drop to 20.46. It’s hard not to be frustrated by Taylor on days like these, especially in a format where, in 14 innings, she has a high of only 40. It is a frustration brought about partly by a selfish desire to see her in full flow: feet moving, wrists snapping, bat bus-wheeling. The flip side is today, where she attempted to work her first ball into the leg side and ended up falling over herself.Edwards responded with a gloriously typical cover drive for four. She would go on to hit four more in her 30, taking her past Janette Brittin – her opening partner on her Test debut – to 1,025 career runs against Australia, the most by any English woman. It was perhaps the only bright spot.Schutt then produced a challenger for ball of the match, as she flicked the edge of off bail, squaring up Edwards in the process.However, even in England’s turgid approach, Greenway (22) and Sciver (35) were starting to show signs of pushing on, only for both to fall to umpiring calls that would seem more at home in the amateur game than an Ashes Test.Both were lbw decisions, the worse of the two when Greenway was given out by Alex Wharf despite the ball pitching well outside leg stump. Neil Mallender was at fault for the second, as Sciver swiped across the line, with the ball clearly heading down the leg side – as shown by the keeper, Alyssa Healy, who ended up joining the appeal seemingly closer to square leg than behind the stumps. It looked like she was given out for the shot rather than the impact.It was left to Katherine Brunt to show her side the folly of their method. She was clearing her front leg to hit short balls square of the wicket and committing to drives in typical, full-blooded fashion. And, in attacking so brutally, she forced changes in the field and errors in a ring that had been airtight for most of the day. In being proactive, she took a portion out of Australia’s lead. That Anya Shrubsole was the last to be dismissed for a 47-ball duck – the third longest in women’s Tests – was a fitting end.To the credit of the England squad, they emerged from a disappointing day to take part in a mass autograph signing. These particular players are the sport’s finest ambassadors, allowing the game to grow with their skill, approachability and willingness to grant every selfie and sign every bit of paraphernalia.But for women’s Test cricket to really prosper, England need to find it within themselves to be as forthcoming on the field as they are off it.

Match facts

Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Start time 1230 local (1030 GMT)1:26

‘Baby’ Rabada may sit in Durban

Big Picture

Now for the excitement. A series absent of context and eclipsed by bigger contests around the cricketing world could finally come to the fore. The Ashes is over, the Test match in Colombo is over; Michael Clarke, Chris Rogers and Kumar Sangakkara’s farewells are over so there is no excuse not to be interested and the last match is a decider, with the teams locked at 1-1. South Africa will move to the third place in the ODI rankings if they win, overtaking New Zealand itself.So far, the cricket has been creative at times as was evident when both teams opened the bowling with spinners, which is rarely done in South African conditions and comical at other times, with dropped catches making as many highlights as runs and wickets but it has not been as competitive as some may have liked. South Africa’s 20-run victory in the first match was more about routine than ruthlessness and New Zealand’s eight-wicket canter in the second was won by the halfway stage. With a trophy on the line both teams should have more fire and fury in the belly.They would also have had the time to assess whether they have gleaned anything from their experimentation and probably found an equal number of solutions as problems. South Africa still have the No. 7 problem after David Wiese struggled but at least they know Morne van Wyk’s days are over. New Zealand have seen Tom Latham and George Worker come good but may be concerned about whether Colin Munro has a long-term future. Those are issues to mull over later – on Wednesday, it’s about claiming a series.

Form guide

(last five completed games most recent first)South Africa LWLLW
New Zealand WLWWL

In the spotlight

Rilee Rossouw has looked the most in-form batsman among his team-mates, although he does not have the numbers to show for it, and could use a big score to cement his position in the team in the near future. When Faf du Plessis and JP Duminy return, South Africa’s line-up will be crowded and Rossouw could be relegated to the reserves. A reminder of what he has to offer would be timely.With scores of 7, 29, 5, 6 and 1, it’s fair to say Luke Ronchi has not made a major contribution on this tour so far. He does not always get the opportunity to do so with New Zealand’s top order regularly leaving him with little time in the middle. However, like any good wicketkeeper, he is hardly noticed behind the stumps which means he is doing a fairly good job, but he will hope for the chance to bat a little longer or at least pull off a stunner behind the stumps.

Team news

Kyle Abbott is the only member of the ODI squad who has not played yet and South Africa may choose to give him a run on his home ground. With Vernon Philander bowling well, it may be a choice between Abbott and Kagiso Rabada with Aaron Phangiso likely to sit out in favour of Imran Tahir. Although Morne van Wyk has misfired, South Africa do not have another reserve batsman unless they choose to play Dean Elgar, who was included as cover after du Plessis was injured.South Africa (probable): 1 Morne van Wyk (wk), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Rilee Rossouw, 4 AB de Villiers (capt), 5 David Miller, 6 Farhaan Behardien, 7 David Wiese, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Kagiso Rabada/Kyle Abbott, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Imran TahirA trio of tweaks to their starting XI saw New Zealand win the second game and they may be tempted to keep their victorious team but conditions could dictate otherwise. Two specialist spinners could be a luxury in Durban so Ish Sodhi or Nathan McCullum may have to make room for either Mitchell McClenaghan to come back in or Matt Henry to get his first opportunity. George Worker is likely to keep his spot because James Neesham, who missed out the second ODI with back pain, is unlikely to recover in time for the decider.New Zealand (probable): 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Tom Latham, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 George Worker, 5 Grant Elliott, 6 Colin Munro, 7 Luke Ronchi (wk), 8 Nathan McCullum/Ish Sodhi, 9 Doug Bracewell, 10 Ben Wheeler/Mitchell McClenaghan, 11 Adam Milne

Pitch and conditions

There won’t be any more complaints or need for paint on the outfield as the dead, dry grass of the Highveld is being left behind for the lush green ground of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Kingsmead’s pitch was also the one that received the most praise by the teams after it hosted the first T20. It won’t be as slow or sticky as the surfaces up country and should have some spice in it for the quicks, but decent scores for the batsmen too. Another warm day is forecast for Durban with day-time highs of 27 degrees.

Stats and trivia

• New Zealand have come back from a game down to win the next two matches in their last two series. In England, they then lost the last two to concede the series 3-2 but in Zimbabwe they won the three-match series 2-1.
• South Africa have not lost two bilateral ODI series in succession since 2009-10 when they suffered back-to-back defeats against England and India.

Quotes

“It’s a huge game. Decider. Winner take all — it’s a final, in essence.”
.”We’ve done it before, before a few big World Cup games in Australia. We’ve got a few niggles and I don’t think one practice session is going to make too much of a difference. We just feel it might be a good day to connect as a team and doing something other than cricket.”

The last time Chandrakant Pandit was in charge of Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy team, for the 2004-05 semi-final against Punjab, the team had five Test cricketers. During his three-year stint as coach, Mumbai won two titles, thanks to the presence of a plethora of experienced and international players in the side.In 2015-16, when Pandit marks a return as the Mumbai coach after over a decade, there isn’t a single Test player in Mumbai’s squad for the first two matches. Naturally, Pandit has his task cut out to get Mumbai back to winning ways.”Mumbai have always had experienced players, that is something we are probably missing out on,” Pandit told ESPNcricinfo ahead of Mumbai’s season-opener against Andhra. “Some of the players have been around for four-five years. That four-to-five years’ experience has to be utilised. One has to stand up as a role model especially when we have six-seven youngsters who can look up to them. I always believe whatever force we have, we should believe in it and go forward.”Its legacy of winning the Ranji Trophy as frequently as the local train logjam in the monsoon aside, Mumbai Ranji teams have always seen a plethora of current and former Test players in action. The old Mumbai fans would not have imagined a Ranji squad without a single Test player.It has happened this year. Even last season, with Wasim Jaffer being injured for most of the season, Mumbai had to field a team without a Test player but Jaffer was present in the dressing room and worked as a mentor for most of the season.Jaffer has switched to Vidarbha as a professional now. With Zaheer Khan unfit and the duo of Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane on India duty, Mumbai have had to field a relatively young squad. More than his run-scoring ability, it is the experience factor for which Mumbai will miss Jaffer the most.”You think about every experienced player who has contributed in the dressing room, there is no replacement at all. Wasim Jaffer has been a great player. He was a pillar for Mumbai,” Pandit said. “What he has done in the last so many years, I think that will be missed in the dressing room. He was looked at [as] one of the role models in the dressing room. When I was young, we looked at Vengsarkar, Gavaskar, Patil who inspired us. That is what something will be missed this season.”A young outfit led by Aditya Tare will begin the quest for winning Mumbai’s 41st Ranji title. But it will be a humongous challenge for Mumbai, considering seven of the 15 squad members have had single-digit caps in first-class cricket. Pandit feels it’s a “huge challenge” to get the best out of youngsters.Thanks to their consistency in pocketing Ranji titles in the past, anything but a title-winning performance is traditionally treated as a failure. Pandit believes Mumbai cricket is coming to terms with that fact.”People who are involved in Mumbai cricket, they do understand you can’t win it every year. But everyone wants to win,” he said. “I am sure they understand that now. We may miss out for another one or two years but the plan is to dominate for five years thereafter [in succession].”I don’t really think about it because some other states have really improved. The competition level, infrastructure and facilities have improved. Naturally every state is going to take advantage of that. We cannot underestimate any other team.”

Delhi-based Shradhanand College put University of Technology, Sydney out of contention for a place in the semi-finals, after beating them by six wickets in their Group A encounter at the Abhimanyu Cricket Academy on Wednesday.For the second-straight match SC’s fast bowler, Abhishek Vats, found himself amongst the wickets, as he dismissed UTS’ openers, Nicholas Charlwood and Christopher Spratt, in his first-two overs.He then accounted for captain, Harry Dalton, in his third over and then Angus McKay his in fourth. His four-over spell left UTS’ top-order in tatters and they failed to recover from the setback and managed just 69 in their innings.UTS’ fast bowler, James Campbell, gave his side just the start that had hoped for, when he struck thrice in his first over.But a 50-run stand between Shubham Dhaiya and Jitish Saroha was all it took for Shradhanand College to cross the line.The win put Shradhanand College through to the semi-final, in Group A, alongside Loughborough MCC University. UTS and European University of Bangladesh failed to make it through to the knock-outs.International College of Business and Technology from Sri Lanka made the semi-finals from Group B by beating Heriot Watt University by a 74-run margin.ICBT’s openers, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Nipuna Ganage provided a solid 126-run platform for the side after they won the toss and elected to bat.Samarawickrama slammed 57 from just 42 balls and Ganage 65 from 39. Following their departure three-balls apart in the 14th over, ICBT fumbled.They lost five-quick wickets, but still managed to post 172. Rohit Singh from HWU showed signs of form with the bat, with a solid 48. But the other batsmen failed to provide any resistance. The team from UAE managed just 98 in reply.Defending champions Assupol TUKS easily overcame Jinnah Degree College, Karachi by nine wickets in the last match of the day.JDC batted first but found it difficult to score freely, as TUKS bowlers maintained their discipline to strangle any signs of a JDC attack.JDC managed just 103 in their 20 overs. TUKS lost opener Aiden Markram in the first over itself, but Murray Coetzee and Gerald Pike added 147 runs for the second wicket to take their side home in ten overs.

ScorecardFile photo: Tanwir Afzal struck seven sixes and one four in his 73•Graham Crouch/IDI/Getty

Tanwir Afzal blitzed Hong Kong to a comfortable 146-run win against UAE with a 33-ball 73 in Dubai. Coming in with his side precariously placed at 159 for 6 after 37 overs, Afzal turned the match in Hong Kong’s favour as he propelled the total to 282 for 8. He smashed seven sixes and one four in his innings and also formed a 101-run, eighth-wicket stand with Aizaz Khan, who contributed a 31-ball 37.Earlier, Hong Kong chose to bat and were given a solid start by their openers Anshuman Rath (53) and Waqas Barkat (27) who added 63 in 15 overs. However, the UAE bowlers chipped away at the wickets and also effected three run-outs to stall he charge of Hong Kong’s middle order. Zaheer Maqsood picked up two wickets and left-arm spinner Ahmed Raza was the most economical bowler with figures of 1 for 35 in his 10 overs.UAE’s chase was dented from the start and the team never recovered from a barrage of early wickets, with Afzal also causing the damage with the ball as he picked up three top-order wickets to reduce UAE to 38 for 4.Shaiman Anwar held one end up with a solid 71 but could not find able support as wickets frequently tumbled. UAE were bundled out for 146 in the 41st over, with Afzal and Nadeem Ahmed picking up three wickets apiece.

Not unexpectedly, the Group A Ranji Trophy Super League matchbetween Delhi and Rajasthan ended in a tame draw at theFerozshah Kotla grounds in New Delhi on Tuesday. A draw wasthe only possible result after the first day’s play had beenwashed out but Delhi managed to take first innings points as Rajasthan were bowled out for 311 in reply to the home team’s453 for nine declared. Delhi got five points and Rajasthan three.Play on the final day started at 11.15 due to fog and bad light.Rajasthan resumed at 134 for one and their hopes were sustainedby valuable knocks by Rahul Kanwat (52) and P.Krishnakumar (39).In fact at 306 for five, the teams seemed set to share threepoints each. But in form medium pacer Amit Bhandari came upwith a destructive spell in the last session and Rajasthanlost their last five wickets for five runs in 6.1 overs.Kanwat faced 106 balls and hit six fours while Krishnakumarfaced 112 balls and hit five of them to the ropes. Bhandarifinished with four wickets for 87 runs.

Yorkshire looked anything but the championship Division One contenders they areas Durham bowled them out for 129 and forced them to follow on at Leeds. Left-armer Simon Brown (4-33) spearheaded a more than competent team-effort. Only three home batsmen reached double-figures and they have now lost al but one of their last five games in all across different competitions.Brown was well supported by his county colleagues. Steve Harmison struckfirst by dismissing David Byas and Richard Blakey, and Paul Collingwood trappedMichael Vaughan (34) l.b.w. after he had been 86 balls at the crease. Darren Lehmann (28), the Australian, threatened briefly until he sliced a ball from Mel Betts to substitute fieldsman Nicky Phillips.That was as good as it got for Yorkshire who fell from 84-4 to 129 all out as Brown dismissed four of the last six batsmen. Anthony McGrath (29 n.o.)looked on as his partners followed each other out in swift succession. Simon Katich and Collingwood stood out in some fine Durham catching. Following on 185 runs in arrears Byas and Vaughan played out the last twelve overs without loss.Earlier in the day Durham had progressed from 253-8 to 314 all out againstless than effective Yorkshire bowling. Ryan Sidebottom (5-66) was defied by captain Nick Speak (61 n.o. from 185 balls) and Harmison (43).

Punjab scored a facile innings and 123 run victory over Jammu and Kashmir on the third and final day of their North Zone Cooch Behar Trophy (under-19) match at the Dhruv Pandove stadium in Patiala on Thursday. Punjab thus earned eight points from their opening fixture.Resuming at the overnight score of 68 for 6, Jammu & Kashmir lost the last four wickets for the addtion of a further 98 runs. The tail wagged particularly Anoop Mongotra (59) and Sumit Silwal (22). Anoop, who was at the crease for 125 minutes faced 119 balls while belting three fours and two sixes.On Wednesday, Punjab’s domination continued. The day saw Jammu and Kashmir tottering at 68 for 6 at stumps, 289 runs in arrears. Punjab had earlier declared at 415 for six.Resuming at the score of 140 for 2 on the second morning, SP Singh (200 not out) and Vikram Sodhi (111) continued from were they left off the previous day. The two forged a 238-run partnership for the third wicket from 46 overs. Sodhi was the first to be dismissed when he was caught by Jasritia off Mongothra. During his 185-minute stay at the crease, Sodhi faced 172 balls and found the boundary ropes eight times.Meanwhile SP Singh who was the more flamboyant partner, reached his double century. Singh, who faced 217 balls during his 320 minute stay, hit 14 boundaries and cleared the ropes six times. Three balls after the fall of Sodhi, Baljit Singh (0) followed him back to the pavilion after giving a catch to Sathyajit Singh off Mongotra. Punjab lost two further wickets, those of Rajan Singh (9) and C Madan (16) before skipper Gagandeep Singh declared the innings.Jammu & Kashmir started their second innings disastrously losing opener M Mir (3) off the first ball of the second over bowled by Uniyal. But I Thakur (26) and A Jalani (17) took the score to 45 when Thakur fell leg before to Sawal. Jammu and Kashmir were neck deep in trouble within the next four overs as they lost four wickets.Jalani and V Kaw took Jammu and Kashmir past the fifty run mark but with the score at 54, Jalani fell in the 29th over. They recieved a further setback five balls later when P Mahajan (0) was trapped leg before by SP Singh. In the next over they lost Jasrotia (0) when he was caught by Mandora off Sawal. Kaw (7) followed him in the next over bowled by SP Singh. A Mongotra (5) and Satyajit Singh (8) safely negotiated the remaining overs before play was called off for the day.