Abhimanyu Iswaran’s Century for Rest of India
Mumbai’s Sarfaraz Khan scored an unbeaten double-century in the Irani Cup. After that Abhimanyu Iswaran has scored a century from Rest of India. Abhimanyu completed this century with the help of 1 six and 8 fours in 117 balls against Mumbai on the third day. The rest of India got off to a bad start. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad returned after scoring 9 runs. Sai Sudarshan could score only 32 runs. Devdutt Padikkal could only contribute 16 runs. But Abhimanyu kept one side and completed the century. This was Abhimanyu’s 26th century in first-class cricket. Abhimanyu completes his hat-trick of centuries with this inning. Abhimanyu had earlier scored centuries in the second and third-round matches of the recently concluded Duleep Trophy.
Abhimanyu’s Test Debut Still Awaited
Abhimanyu is consistently scoring runs in first-class cricket. But the wait for Abhimanyu’s Test debut is not over. Abhimanyu has been selected for the team many times. But showing faith in Abhimanyu, he was not included in the playing eleven. But Abhimanyu has now strengthened his claim with a century hat-trick. So does the BCCI selection committee give Abhimanyu a chance for the upcoming Test series against New Zealand? Cricket fans will be paying attention to this
Mumbai Playing XI: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Prithvi Shaw, Ayush Mhatre, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Hardik Tamore (wicketkeeper), Shardul Thakur, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Mohit Awasthi, M Junaid Khan.
Rest of India Playing XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Abhimanyu Iswaran, Sai Sudarshan, Ishan Kishan, Dhruv Jurel (Wicketkeeper), Manav Suthar, Saransh Jain, Yash Dayal, Prasidh Krishna, Mukesh Kumar.