Ranji Trophy 2023-24 has started and Devdutt Padikkal has achieved the feat of scoring a century while batting brilliantly against Punjab. He has played a strong innings while playing for Karnataka. Thanks to his innings, Karnataka has gained a huge lead.

In the match, Punjab won the toss and decided to bat first. But his batting was a complete flop and the team could score only 152 runs. In response, Karnataka’s opening batsman Mayank Agarwal returned to the pavilion without opening his account. However, after this Devdutt Padikkal and Ravikumar Samarth took over the innings.

Before being out, Padikkal scored 193 runs in 216 balls, which included 24 fours and 4 sixes. After this tremendous innings of the batsman who is out of Team India, he is dominating the social media.

Earlier, Padikkal had shown an amazing performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy last year. He had scored 465 runs in five innings of the first five matches, which also included two centuries and three half-centuries.

Well played, Devdutt Padikkal…!!!

193 (216) with 24 fours and 4 sixes – a royal performance in the Ranji Trophy opener for Karnataka. pic.twitter.com/DzbhgZ9WjF

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 6, 2024

Manish Pandey also scored a century

Talking about the match, Punjab could score only 152 runs after losing all the wickets in the first innings. Nehal Vadhera scored the maximum 44 runs for the team. Whereas for Karnataka, Vasuki Kaushik bowled lethally and took 7 wickets for 41 runs. While Vijaykumar Vaishak and Rohit Kumar got 2 and 1 wickets respectively.

In response, till the time of writing the news, Karnataka has scored 391 runs after losing 5 wickets and its total lead has reached 239 runs. Apart from Padikkal, Manish Pandey also played a century and scored 118 runs with the help of 13 fours and 3 sixes.

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