Yash Dhull smashed his way to 92, but Vidarbha’s bowling unit proved too good for Rest of India as they comfortably won the Irani Cup by 93 runs here on Sunday. Chasing a target of 361, Rest of India were all out for 267 in the second session of the fifth day with left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey (4-73) and pacer Yash Thakur (2-47) doing the bulk of the damage.
Vidarbha now have played three Irani Cup games and won all three. Credit should go to Dubey and Thakur — both of whom had a match-haul of six wickets and did well enough to get majority of the 20 Rest of India wickets across two innings. RoI had slumped to 133 for six during the first session on the final morning, but it was Dhull and Manav Suthar (56), who got them back in the game with a 104-run stand for the seventh wicket stand.
However, Thakur then put paid to RoI’s hopes of an improbable win when Dhull tried to slash him, but Atharva Taide, at deep third man, took a well-judged catch inches inside the ropes. The dismissal was followed by an ugly incident where bowler Thakur and Delhi man Dhull nearly came to exchanging blows after the former had given the batter a rather rude send off.
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