Mumbai: A splendid bowling display by left arm spinner Amir aziz and off spinner Parvez Rasool helped Jammu and Kashmir to gain vital first innings lead against Andhra Pradesh in the Ranjhi trophy plate group match at Brabourne stadium cricket club of India ground Mumbai here today .
JK were 31/2 in their second essay at stumps on day 3 today.
Ian Dev Singh 15 and Adil Reshi 3 were back to the pavilion. For Andhra Pradesh, Bargav Bhatt was the successful bowler who scalped both the wickets.Earlier resuming from an overnight total of 72/2 Andhra was bundled out for 255 , courtesy Superb 5 wicket haul by Amir Aziz and 3 wickets by Parvaz Rasool.
Ravi tejja was the top scorer with 81 runs while A G Pradep and Ashwin Heber contributed 47 and 38 runs respectively. K S Barat and D Prasant also chipped in with 31 and 24 runs respectively.skipper Hanuman Vihari was ran out by j&k skipper Mithun Manhas via direct hit at his individual score of 19 runs.
For j&k Amir Aziz was the pick of the bowlers who bowled 33 overs with 9 maidens and took 5 wickets by conceding 62 runs while Parvaaz Rasool bowled 23.3 overs giving away 40 runs and taking 3 important wickets.
Umar Nazir also took 1 wicket .
Amir aziz attributed to his bowling coach Abdul and Pervaz Rasool.