Karnataka 423 for 9 dec (Uthappa 156, Gautam 80, Mudhasir 4-99) beat Jammu & Kashmir 160 (Vinay 4-37) and 233 (Ian Dev 94, Aravind 3-48, Vinay 3-52, Mithun 3-55) by an innings and 30 runs
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Karnataka's seamers picked up three wickets each to bowl their side to an innings-and-30-run win over Jammu & Kashmir 20 minutes before tea on day three in Hubli. Aside from Ian Dev Singh's 94, J&K offered no real resistance, and Karnataka blew their middle and lower order aside for the second time in the match. J&K, who had lost their last seven wickets for 38 runs in the first innings, didn't do too much better in the second, losing them for 85 runs.
The bonus point from this game raised Karnataka's total to 25 points from four games. It was their 12th win in 13 matches stretching back to last season, including the Irani Cup game against Rest of India. The only game they didn't win was the rain-affected Ranji semi-final against Punjab.
Vinay Kumar squared up Aditya Singh and knocked back his off stump with the second ball of the day, but Karnataka had to wait quite a while before their next wicket. Ian Dev, who came in on the back of a century in his previous game against Uttar Pradesh and an attractive 31 in the first innings here, looked in excellent form, his front foot pressing forward a long way both in defence, and in playing drives down the ground and through the covers. Both he and Adil Reshi left the ball well, in a 64-run partnership that occupied 164 balls, until Abhimanyu Mithun finally induced a poke outside off from Reshi half an hour before lunch.
As he had done in the first innings, Parvez Rasool attacked the bowling, pulling Mithun and driving Vinay through extra cover for boundaries in successive overs. In the third over after lunch, however, he went for an extravagant slash outside off and edged left-armer S Aravind to the keeper. It didn't seem like the wisest shot to play under the circumstances, with 115 runs still needed to make Karnataka bat again.
Aravind then sent back Hardeep Singh for a duck in his next over, going round the wicket and pinging his halfway-forward left pad in front of the stumps. At the other end, Ian Dev went after the legspinner Shreyas Gopal, bringing up his half-century with a straight six and picking up three more fours off him in his next two overs, with slog sweeps and lofted drives. Trying to match his partner for aggression, debutant Paras Sharma came down the track to Shreyas and missed an attempted inside-out drive.
Vinay brought himself back into the attack from Shreyas' end, and struck immediately, snaking one in off the pitch to bowl Ian Dev through the gate. That was effectively the end of the match, as the last three J&K wickets only managed to bat out a further 6.5 overs.
