Ranji Trophy: Kumar Kartikeya takes six, Madhya Pradesh beat Punjab to enter semifinals
India TV NewsSpinner Kumar Kartikeya carried on with his brilliant bowling display and spun a web around the Punjab batters as Madhya Pradesh cruised into the Ranji Trophy semi-finals with a 10-wicket victory here on Thursday. After a failure from the top order once again, wicket-keeper batter Anmol Malhotra and Siddharth Kaul began the day cautiously and steadily, and it appeared the duo would help Punjab take a respectable lead. Jain's dismissal set off a quick fall of wickets and helped MP consolidate their strangehold over the match, with both Malhotra and Sanvir Singh departing soon after, courtesy a brilliant bowling display by Kartikeya. But Markande's lone battle did not prove to be enough as Jain picked up the wickets of both tailenders Vinay Chaudhary and Baltej Singh to finish off the Punjab innings.