Watch: Released By India, Mukesh Kumar Returns To Ranji Trophy, Claims Career-Best 10 Wicket Haul

Watch: Against Bihar at the Ranji Trophy, Mukesh Kumar registered his career-best innings figures and match figures.

Mukesh Kumar’s years of hard work in domestic cricket paid off in 2023 with a Test match in Port of Spain. He impressed with his game numbers of 23-10-53-2.

Despite the absence of Bengali senior Mohammed Shami, he was dropped from the Centurions in favor of the taller and faster Prasidh Krishna. However, he was selected in Cape Town and contributed to India’s victory with 22 wins, 4 minutes, 56.4 seconds.

After being selected as a replacement for Mohammed Siraj in Visakhapatnam, he returned with 12 wins, 1 loss, 70 minutes and 0 seconds on a surface that offered little medium-paced bowling, and was selected by the Indian selectors to be selected in domestic cricket. was allowed to participate.

He returned for Bengal’s final match of the season against Bihar at the Eden Gardens and scored 95 points in a 4-18 win over the tourists. His new ball partner Suraj Singh Dhujaishwar also made his comeback in 4:47.

Bengal fought back at 411 for 5 and Manoj Tiwary declared the innings over as soon as Abhimanyu Easwaran brought in a double ton. Tiwary, playing the last match of his illustrious career, scored 30 runs. He finished this format with his 10,195 points and 47.86 points.

Mukesh then defeated the top four from Bihar in the first match. On the second ball, he caught Piyush Singh’s leg in front. Rishav Raj and Raghuvendra Pratap Singh were behind the two inswingers. And Mangal Mahroor made a clean throw to upset Bihar with his 37-4.

The team recovered to 110-7 when Mukesh bowled Paramjeet Singh and Ravi Shankar in the same over for 6-32, his first 10 wickets at 10-50. , achieved the highest score in his first-class cricket career.

Jaishwar also took 4 for 34 and Bihar sank to 112 runs and lost by an innings for 204 runs. Their total score of 196 was four points less than Easwaran’s score.

Watch Mukesh Kumar rout Bihar with 6-32 in the Ranji Trophy:

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