{"id":431434,"date":"2026-02-18T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:49:08","slug":"ranji-trophy-2025-26-auqib-nabi-puts-jk-in-sight-of-maiden-final-despite-mohammed-shami-eight-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431434\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranji Trophy 2025-26 &#8211; Auqib Nabi puts J&#038;K in sight of maiden final despite Mohammed Shami eight-for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu &amp; Kashmir 302 (Samad 82, Nabi 42, Shami 8-90) and 43 for 2 (Pundir 23*, Vanshaj 9*, Akash Deep 2-12) need another 83 runs to beat Bengal 328 and 99 (Shahbaz 24, Sunil 4-27, Nabi 4-36)<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 wickets fell on day three of the Ranji Trophy semi-final between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/bengal-1572\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/jammu-&amp;-kashmir-1828\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/ranji-trophy-2025-26-1492381\/bengal-vs-jammu-kashmir-2nd-semi-final-1492523\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kalyani<\/a>. All of them went to the quicks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mohammed-shami-481896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed Shami<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/auqib-nabi-1159732\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auqib Nabi<\/a> starring for their sides. By stumps, though, J&amp;K were only 83 runs away from making their first ever Ranji final.<\/p>\n<p>Nabi bagged 4 for 36 in the second innings to skittle Bengal out for 99, thus adding to his haul of 5 for 87 in the first. That left J&amp;K only 126 to chase after Bengal went 26 ahead in the first innings courtesy of a career-best first-class haul of 8 for 90 from Shami.<\/p>\n<p>J&amp;K were 198 for 5 in their first innings overnight, and Shami got all the remaining wickets for Bengal. But before his first eight-for, Nabi and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/yudhvir-singh-1206052\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yudhvir Singh<\/a> frustrated Bengal with the bat. After J&amp;K were reduced to 231 for 8, they smashed 64 runs in quick time to chip away at Bengal&#8217;s first-innings total of 328.J&amp;K were eventually bowled out for 302, with Nabi scoring 42. He continued to have a great time in the match when he struck twice to reduce Bengal to 19 for 4 in the second innings. Shahbaz Ahmed briefly fought back with an attacking 24, but Nabi and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/sunil-kumar-1339048\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunil Kumar<\/a>, who also got four, never allowed Bengal to come back in the game.J&amp;K&#8217;s chase, though, had its share of hiccups as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/akash-deep-1176959\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akash Deep<\/a> left them at 12 for 2 after dismissing both openers early to give Bengal hope. But Shubham Pundir (23*) and the promoted Vanshaj Sharma (9*) took J&amp;K to 43 for 2 at stumps on day three.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ravichandran Smaran notched up 67, South Zone vs Central Zone, Duleep Trophy final, 4th day, CoE Ground, September 14, 2025\" class=\"ds-rounded-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/wassets.hscicdn.com\/static\/images\/lazyimage-noaspect.svg\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File photo: Ravichandran Smaran scored 135\u2022PTI <\/p>\n<p>Uttarakhand 149 for 5 (Raichandani 52*, Patil 2-26, Gopal 1-23, Vyshak 1-30) trail Karnataka 736 (Padikkal 232, Rahul 141, Smaran 135, A Rawat 4-154) by 587 runs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/karnataka-1872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karnataka<\/a> continued batting against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/uttarakhand-1156784\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uttarakhand<\/a> for the third successive day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/ranji-trophy-2025-26-1492381\/uttarakhand-vs-karnataka-1st-semi-final-1492522\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Lucknow<\/a>, before being bowled out 736 &#8211; their second-highest first-class total. In reply, Uttarakhand ended day three on 149 for 5, still a mammoth 587 runs behind.Karnataka started the day on 689 for 6, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ravichandran-smaran-1327722\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R Smaran<\/a> on 121. But he could add only another 14 to his score, before being the first wicket to fall on the third morning. He skipped down the pitch to left-arm spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mayank-mishra-1159774\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayank Mishra<\/a>, and was stumped. Mishra added the wicket of Vijaykumar Vyshak for a duck in his next over, and then got his third when he bowled Shikhar Shetty for 12.But by then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/vidyadhar-patil-1155265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vidyadhar Patil<\/a>, who had a seventh-wicket stand of 109 with Smaran, had got to his maiden first-class fifty. He was the last man out for 54 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/aditya-rawat-1451031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aditya Rawat<\/a> bagged his fourth wicket to have Patil caught behind.<\/p>\n<p>Patil then carried forward that momentum when he came out to bowl. He dismissed both Uttarakhand openers &#8211; Prashant Chopra was lbw, while Bhupen Lalwani was caught behind &#8211; before Vyshak cleaned Avneesh Sudha up with a beauty.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Uttarakhand batters got starts, but only Lakshya Raichandani went on to make a substantial score. He finished unbeaten on 52 at stumps, with the highest partnership of Uttarakhand&#8217;s innings being 43 for the fifth wicket between Raichandani and J Suchith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jammu &amp; Kashmir 302 (Samad 82, Nabi 42, Shami 8-90) and 43 for 2 (Pundir 23*, Vanshaj 9*,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}