Kerala fight before Gujarat fight back to leave Ranji semi-final in a cliffhanger | Cricket News
The twisted power of recollection and hindsight can be cruel when things progressively fizzle from your grasp, leaving everything on edge with your watchfully built momentum squeezing towards the opposition. On a see-sawing day 4 of the Ranji Trophy semi-final, Jalaj Saxena’s resilience brought the game back to level terms before Gujarat’s lower-order artillery offered Kerala a taste of their own resurgent spirit. With attrition and doggedness slicing the game down to a one-innings shootout, 29 runs/three wickets now separate Gujarat/Kerala from completing a momentous final-day triumph at the Narendra Modi Stadium. But the minds will keep ticking in the Kerala camp after a slew of hits and misses on a decisive Thursday afternoon. ‘What if the team got to 500? Did they misread the pitch on the opening day expecting bountiful assistance from the strip? Was the four-man bowling attack a huge risk in the knockouts? Did they concede runs too quickly to Gujarat’s opening pair the previous evening?’ Story continues below this ad Putting Kerala just within another shot at scripting a miraculous …
