Manvant Kumar revives Karnataka's game

The Karnataka team scored 281 runs for 8 wickets in the first day of the Ranji Trophy Elite B group match against Saurashtra. Young talent Manvant Kumar filled the home team's performance with a magnificent batting innings. Manvant (batting 86; 124e) and Abhilash Shetty (batting 6; 85e) contributed 87 runs in the crucial ninth wicket partnership. Manvant recorded his maiden half-century with 65 balls, hitting five sixes and half a dozen boundaries.