J&K batsmen fail again
KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, Nov 6: A brace by Pardeep Bali helped visitors J&K pull back some honour at the draw of stumps on first day of the Ranji trophy tie against Punjab in Ludhiana today.
Earlier true to form Jammu and Kashmir batsmen failed to perform with the bat once again and the team was bundled out for a paltry 171.
Navdeep being the wrecker-in-chief bugging five wickets for 28 runs.
For the visitors barring Ranjeet Bali (37) Kanwaljeet Singh (47), Ashwani Gupta (40) and Vikrant Taggar (19) not of the batsmen could get into double figures.
Apart from Navdeep, India off spinner Harbhajan Singh took three wickets for 63 runs.
Punjab bowlers quite easily saw off the Jammu and Kashmir new ball attack but came unstruck against the left arm Pardeep Bali.
He was responsible for rending back the in-form batsman and India cap aspirant Reetinder Sodhi before he could open his account.
Earlier Bali had claimed the scalp of Ravneet.
At draw of stumps Vikram Rathore and Pankaj Dharmani were together with Rathore seven short of his fifty.
With the batsmen once again failing to perform, J&K's task in now cut out of they have save the match and get any points.
The batsmen will have to truly perform of the visitors aspire to lake at learnt three points.
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