Duleep Trophy 2024: Yash Dayal-led pace unit shines as India B beat India A by 76 runs

KL Rahul 's gumption, which helped him pile a patient fifty, found no resonance among his colleagues as India B pacers led by Yash Dayal pushed India A to a 76-run defeat on fourth and final day of ir Duleep Trophy match here on Sunday.

Chasing 275, India A were bundled out for 198 in ir second innings as left-arm seamer Dayal (3/50), with able support from his colleagues Mukesh Kumar (2/50) and Navdeep Saini (2/41), led India B attack.

Rahul top-scored for 'A' with a 51.

In first session of day, India B me 184 all out in ir second essay to muster a handy overall le of 274.

India A chase began on a shaky note as Mayank Agarwal departed in second over itself, wafting Dayal away from his body to Nitish Kumar Reddy, who me a wonderful diving catch at second slip.

That brought Riyan Parag to middle and right-hander followed path set on Saturday by Rishabh Pant and Sarfaraz Khan.

Parag took on bowlers and pacer Mukesh bore brunt of his aggression, getting smoked for two sixes and second maximum touched roof of Chinnaswamy Stium over mid-wicket region.

Parag ded 48 runs for second with a rar subdued Shubman Gill, who was dropped by Nitish Reddy at slips off Mukesh on 16, and 31 came off former's bat in just 18 balls.

But approach was tough to sustain considering kind of assistance bowlers were getting here, and soon his massive hoick off Dayal took an edge off Parag's bat en route to stumper Rishabh Pant .

Gill (21) departed soon, falling to Saini for second time in match and on this occasion, he edged pacer to Pant.

Dhruv Jurel poked Dayal well outside off-stump to Yashasvi Jaiswal at gully, as India batters perished to a combination of bowlers' persistence on that channel and ir own carelessness.

y took lunch at a queasy 76 for four that soon transpired into 99 for six after dismissal of Shivam Dube and Tanush Kotian, an hour into lunch.

However, Rahul batted out 180 minutes 121 balls and milked 42 runs for seventh wicket with Kuldeep Yav to delay inevitable.

standout shot in an orwise dour innings was a whistling on drive off Mukesh that fetched him a boundary.

But Mukesh h his revenge soon when Rahul feared a cut off him to Pant, who completed five catches in this innings, soon after reaching his fifty with a single off Saini.

It effectively signalled end of ro of for India A, though Akash Deep (43, 42b, 3x4, 4x6) gave a few moments of fun with a cavalier innings.

But beyond entertainment value, it always was a case of when more than if.

Earlier, resuming from ir overnight score of 150 for six India B could only 34 runs more to total before getting bundled out.

Pacer Akash, whom Sarfaraz Khan carted around for five fours in a row previous day, found his mojo to d scalps of Washington Sundar and Saini to complete a five-wicket haul (5/56).

spell will keep his name floating among contenders when selectors sit toger soon to pick up squ for two-match Test series against Banglesh .