Sri C Keshavamurthy, domestic champion statistician brings out the statistical highlights of Karnataka-Maharashtra Ranji Trophy. Read on ……………….

This was Karnataka’s 352nd match and Maharashtra’s 312th; Result record at the end of the match for Karnataka : Won-159, Lost-55, Drawn-138 (incl NR)and Maharashtra: Won- 74, Lost-50, Drawn-188 (incl NR) : Head to Head results between the two teams are as under Played-9, Won by Knk-4, Won by Mah-2, Drawn-3

Karnataka’s victory by an innings and 128 runs against Maharashtra is its fourth successive win and the third innings victory.

With this innings victory, Karnataka has registered 61 innings victories in 352 matches. Most innings have come against Kerala {22 occasions}. Karnataka’s largest innings victory was against Jammu & Kashmir by an – innings and 321 runs – at Bangalore in 2002/03.

Maharashtra’s defeat in this game was its 50th defeat in Ranji Trophy.

Karnataka registered 553 for four wickets before declaring its innings closed providing the 30th occasion of Karnataka registering 500 plus runs against various oppositions.

Maharashtra’s 105 in this match reprsents its lowest completed innings total agaisnt Karnataka. The previous lowest completed innings total was 108 at Bangalore in 2005/06.

KB Pawan’s 151 reprsents his fourth hundred in Ranji Trophy in 18 outings. This knock represetns his highest individual innings improving upon his previous best of 134 against Bengal in the previous game at Mysore in Nov 09. This knock also reprsents his second successive hundred this season after his 134 against Bengal at Mysore in November 2009. This was Pawan’s second century against Maharashtra the first one being his 102 at Ratnagiri in 2007/08. Amit Verma, the second centurion in Karnataka’s innings also scored his second successive hundred when he made 150 not out. In the previous match against Bengal at Mysore he had scored 157. Ganesh Satish, the third centurion, registered his maiden Ranji hundred by scoring 141 which represents his highest individual score. His previous best was 44 against Tamilnadu at Bangalore in 2008/09.

Amit Verma and Ganesh Satish becamethe 10th and 11th players to score against Maharashtra, while the latter became s the 66th Karnataka batsman to acore a hundred in Ranji Trophy.

For Maharashtra, AR Bawne scored 136 in his sixth Ranji match which was his maiden century. His previous best was 52 against Railways at Ratnagiri in 2008/09. He became the sixth Maharashtra batsman to register a hundred against Karnataka. The complete list of centurions is tabulated below

No	Batsman	Score	Venue	Season
1	CPSChauhan	147	Pune	1970/71
2	YajurvindraSingh	143	Bangalore	1975/76
3	HSKanitkar	109	Bangalore	1975/76
4	SVJedhe	111	Pune	1990/91
5	SSBhave	113*	Pune	1990/91
6	ARBawne	136	Poona	2009/10

78 by RH Motwani is his second fifty in his 9th Ranji Trophy match. This was also his highest individual score – his previous highest being 67 against Bengal at Poona this season.

Centuries by KB Pawan, AA Verma and G Satish, provides the eleventh occasion of three Karnataka batsmen reigsering a hundred in an innings against various oppositions in Ranji Trophy. This is the second such occasion during this season – KB Pawan (134), AA Verma (157) and CM Gautam (108*) had scored hundreds against Bengal at Mysore.

This is only the second instance in the Karnataka Ranji Trophy history that three or more centuries have been scored in an innings on two occasions in the same0 season. This also happens to be the first occasion in which this feat has been accomplished in successive matches by Karnataka batsmen

RV Uthappa scored his sixth duck of his Ranji career when he was dismissed for zero of the first ball he faced from SM Fallah. RV Uthappa was playing in his 37th match. This also represents his second duck of the season. the first one was against Uttar Pradesh at Meerut in the first innings when he collected the second ball duck

Vinay Kumar took his aggregate of wickets this season to 27 in four matches with eight wickets in this match. He took 5 for 40 and 3 for 83 in this match. This is the third occasion he has captured 25 or more wickets in a season. He had aggregated 27 wickets from eight matches in 2006/07 and 40 wickets from seven matches in 2007/08. Vinaykumar’s 25 plus five wicket haul in a season provides the 54th such instance for Karnataka bowlers.

BS Chandrasekhar and SB Joshi jointly share the record of capturing 25 or more wickets in a season – on nine occasions each

Prior to the start of the season, Sunil Joshi with 431 wickets in 101 matches, needed seven wickets to surpass BS Chandrasekhar’s aggregate of 437 wickets in 76 matches. At the end of the match, Sunil Joshi has 438 wickets to his credit in 105 matches. His 438th victim was S Sureshnath in second innings, whom he had caught by Pawan

Sunil Joshi now has become the most capped player for Karnatnaka. The match agaisnt Maharashtra was his 105h match. Brijesh Patel had held the prevous record with 104 appearances. Sunil Joshi and Brijesh Patel remain the onlyh two cricketers to play 100 plus matches for Karnatkaka, though SMH Kirmani has appeared in 100 matches – representing Karnataka and Railways.

R Vinaykumar’s 5 for 40 in the first innings reprsetnes his third five wicket haul against Maharastra and his ninth five wicket haul against various oppostions. His previous five fors against Maharashtra was 5 for 22 at Bangalore in 2005/06 and 6 for 38 at Ratnagiri in 2007/08.

The 284 runs partnership for second wicket between KB Pawan and Ganesh Satish is a record stand by Karnataka batsmen against Maharashara. The previous best for the second wicket was 139 run stand between Carlton Saldanha and Arjun Raja at Pune in 1990/91. The 284 runs partnership is the 33rd double century partnership by Karnataka batsmen against various oppositions in Ranji Trophy.

The 163 runs unbroken partnership between Amit Verma and Balachandra Akhil for the fifth wicket is also a record partnership for fifth wicket against Maharashtra. The previous best for the fifth wicket was 125 runs between VS Thilaknaidu and DA Chowghule at Pune in 2002/03.

SM Fallah (2/142), S Sureshnath (0/105) and KR Adhav (1/153) conceded 100 plus runs in an innings, providing the 15th occasion of three or more bowlers pponent side have conceded over 100 runs in an innings against Karnataka. This is the second such occasion by Maharashtra bowlers against Karnataka, the first occasion was in the pre-quarter final at Pune in 1990/91 when KT Yerwadekar (2/152), SV Ranjane (1/129), SJ Jadhav (2/114) and Y Kadam (3/104) conceded 100 plus runs.

Sureshnath became the first Maharashtra bowler to concede over 100 runs in an innings without capturing a wicket against Karnataka.