Karun Nair returned to haunt Kerala with a century for Karnataka on Day 1 of a Ranji Trophy match at Mangalapuram in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Back with his home association, Bengaluru-Malayali Karun reached his century in the post Tea session. At the end of the day, Karun remained unbeaten at 142 off 251 deliveries, with the Karnataka total at 319\/3 in 90 overs.<\/p>\n
Kerala made a brilliant start by removing Mayank Agarwal (5) and Aneesh K V (8), leaving the visitors reeling at 13\/2, before Karun and K L Shrijith forged a 123-run partnership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baba Aparajith dismissed Shrijith for 65, but Karun got another quality partnership going with Smaran R, who reached his half-century shortly after Tea. Both of them forged a 183-run partnership, with Samaran at the crease with 88 off 143.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Karun represented Vidarbha last season and was one of their stars of the Ranji Trophy final against Kerala. He scored a timely 86 in the first innings, which ensured the decisive lead for Vidarbha, and followed it up with a fine 135 in the second innings to deny Kerala the Ranji Trophy title.<\/p>\n
Kerala has managed only two points from their first two rounds this season. In the drawn fixtures against Maharashtra and Punjab, Kerala conceded the lead.<\/p>\n
The home team, led by Mohammed Azharuddeen, is without star batter Sanju Samson, who is with Team India for a five-match T20I series in Australia.<\/p>\n
Brief Scores: Karnataka 319\/3 in 90 overs (Karun Nair 142 not out, Smaran R 88 not out,\u00a0K L Shrijith 65, Nidheesh M D 1\/41, N P Basil 1\/58,\u00a0Baba Aparajith 1\/65)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karun Nair returned to haunt Kerala with a century for Karnataka on Day 1 of a Ranji Trophy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,138855,146884,151114,151106,151105,151110,151112,151111,151108,151107,151115,151117,151109,151113,151116,85],"class_list":["post-255957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-scores","tag-indian-domestic-cricket","tag-k-l-shrijith-ranji-trophy","tag-karnataka-ranji-trophy","tag-karun-nair-century","tag-karun-nair-karnataka-century","tag-karun-nair-kerala","tag-karun-nair-ranji-trophy","tag-karun-nair-vs-kerala","tag-kerala-ranji-trophy-match","tag-mohammed-azharuddeen-kerala","tag-ranji-trophy-2024-scores","tag-ranji-trophy-karnataka-vs-kerala","tag-ranji-trophy-scores","tag-sanju-samson-team-india","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}