Rourkela, Feb 25: Anil Kumble is on a roll. The Karnataka skipper notched up his second hat-trick in the Ranji Trophy Cricket Championship, here at the Ispat Stadium, Wednesday. His first hat-trick was against Andhra at Vizag in 1992 under Syed Kirmani's captaincy.Kumble's 16th five-wicket haul in Ranji Trophy fashioned Karnataka's innings and 123-run win over minnows Orissa on the third day itself. Thus Karnataka bagged eight points from this Group `A' Super League to swell their total to 24 points from three matches.
Bowling his fourth over, Kumble sent in a quicker delivery and Robin Morris, who went backward to be caught plumb in front of the wicket; a flipper in the next ball knocked out Goutham Gopal's off-stump; he then bowled a straighter one that uprooted Subhash Mohanty's stump. Kumble finished with amazing figures of 6-3-9-5.
SCOREBOARD
Orissa (1st innings): 183.
Karnataka (1st innings) (Overnight 298-4): Rahul Dravid c Das b Jaichandra 138, Fazal Khaleel lbw Jaichandran16, Sunil Joshi c&b Syed Khan 2, Anil Kumble st Gopal b Mohanty 38, S Shiraguppi not out 0, David Johnson c Mallick b Mohanty 1, Extras: (b-8, lb-7, nb-27, w-1) 43, Total: (for 9 wkts decl in 137.2 overs) 398.
Fall of Wickets: 1-78, 2-128, 3-138, 4-246, 5-322, 6-335, 7-390, 8-396.
Bowling: Morris 13-4-27-0, Barik 25-5-76-0, Jaichandra 31-11-64-5, Syed Khan 43-6-141-2, Mohanty 24.2-5-72-2, Mallick 1-0-3-0.
Orissa (2nd innings): BBCC Mohapatra c&b Joshi 19, P Jaichandra b Prasad 11, P Mallick c Siriguppi b Kummle 20, SS Das run out 8, RR Parida c Sujit b Joshi 19, Mohapatra lbw Johnson 1, Robin Morris lbw Kumble 7, Goutam Gopal b Kumble 0, Subhash Mohanty b Kumble 0, S Khan st Siriguppi b Kumble 1, Ajay Barik not out 0, Extras: (lb-1, nb-5) 6. Total: (in 32.3 overs) 92.
Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-40, 3-63, 4-66, 5-67, 6-86, 7-86, 8-86, 9-92.
Bowling: Prasad 8-3-17-1, Johnson 8-0-29-1, Joshi 10.3-3-26-2, Kumble 6-3-9-5.
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