New Delhi. Team India's experienced all-rounder Akshar Patel played a wonderful innings in the Duleep Trophy tournament. In difficult times, Akshar played a brilliant innings against India C and took the team to a respectable score. The India D team, captained by Shreyas Iyer, had lost six wickets at a score of 48 runs at one time. Its top order batsmen had returned to the pavilion. After this, Akshar came at number seven and took charge and scored a half-century along with the tail-end batsmen. He missed the century by just 14 runs. However, by then his team had crossed the 150 mark.
Axar Patel scored 86 runs in the first innings against India C in the Duleep Trophy match with the help of 6 fours and 6 sixes in 118 balls. At the Rural Development Trust Stadium in Anantapur, India C bowlers took the wickets of India D star batsmen Arthav Tayade, Yash Dubey, captain Shreyas Iyer, Devdutt Padikkal and Ricky Bhui and wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat for 48 runs. Shreyas Iyer was dismissed after scoring 9 runs off 16 balls, while Padikkal could not even open the account. Bhui contributed four runs, while Bharat was dismissed after scoring 13 runs. Axar Patel shared an 86-run partnership with Arshdeep Singh, due to which India D team was successful in scoring 164 runs.
6 wickets fell for 48 runs, then the number 7 batsman played a wonderful innings, hit 6 sixes
Arshdeep played an important role along with Akshar
Arshdeep scored 13 runs off 33 balls while Harshit Rana could not even open his account. Vijay Kumar Vishak took the maximum of 3 wickets from India C team while Anshul Kamboj and Himanshu Chauhan took two wickets each. Manav Sutar and Hrithik Shaukeen took one wicket each. The Indian team against Bangladesh is to be selected after the first round match of Duleep Trophy. Akshar scoring runs with the bat before this series can prove to be a bonus for the Indian team.
International cricket career of Axar Patel
Akshar Patel has played 14 Tests, 60 ODIs and 62 T20 Internationals for India. He has taken 55 wickets in Tests with his spin bowling while he has 64 wickets in ODIs. Akshar has 62 wickets in T20 Internationals. Talking about batting, Akshar has scored 646 runs with 4 half-centuries in Tests. He has 568 runs with 2 half-centuries in ODIs while he has scored 463 runs with one half-century in T20s.
tag: Akhar Patel, Duleep Trophy, Shreyas Iyer
first published : September 5, 2024, 4:04 pm IST
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