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Former India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik has praised Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi for his show successful the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy, saying his run stands retired among caller fast-bowling efforts successful home cricket.Posting connected X, Karthik urged young cricketers to travel Nabi's illustration if they purpose to correspond India."Watching this Ranji Trophy run and pursuing it closely, 1 happening I tin accidental for certain, for each the young boys and girls retired determination playing this athletics and wanting to correspond the state -- bash it the AQUIB NABI way," Karthik wrote.Karthik said helium could not callback a pacer successful caller years who had controlled a play successful akin fashion."Can't deliberation of immoderate pacer/player successful a agelong clip doing what he's done. Domination from commencement to extremity and astir single-handedly winning the home tourney that matters the astir to get into the nationalist side," Karthik wrote.
He besides highlighted Nabi’s endurance and consistency crossed conditions."Fitness crossed the full campaign, bowling those agelong spells and crossed antithetic soils, upwind conditions, and whether there's been immoderate assistance for a pacer oregon not, he's been determination for his squad with the content each clip he's had the shot to STRIKE for his team," Karthik posted.
Praising his mindset, Karthik added:"Hats disconnected to you AQUIB, you're an implicit champion and anticipation you get a batch of occurrence that comes your way, and whitethorn you beryllium the acquisition on. How it's done to interruption the doors done sheer volition power, skill, and resilience," Karthik said.Nabi has played a cardinal relation successful Jammu and Kashmir’s tally this season, delivering crossed antithetic transportation conditions. He is the second-highest wicket-taker successful the tournament, with 58 wickets successful 10 matches and 17 innings astatine an mean of 12.62.
His tally includes 2 four-wicket hauls and six five-wicket hauls.Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir were successful a beardown presumption against eight-time champions Karnataka astatine stumps connected Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 last astatine the KSCA Hubli Cricket Ground.Jammu and Kashmir posted 584 successful 173.1 overs successful their archetypal innings. Shubham Pundir scored 121 disconnected 247 balls, hitting 12 fours and 2 sixes. For Karnataka, Prasidh Krishna took 5/98 successful 34.1 overs.
Vidyadhar Patil (1/116), Vijaykumar Vyshak (1/75), Shreyas Gopal (1/139) and Shikhar Shetty (1/125) claimed 1 wicket each.In reply, Karnataka reached 220/5 successful 69 overs astatine stumps connected Day 3, with Mayank Agarwal unbeaten connected 130 disconnected 207 balls, including 17 fours. KL Rahul (13 disconnected 39 balls, 2 fours), skipper Devdutt Padikkal (11 disconnected 10 balls, 2 fours), Karun Nair (0), Smaran Ravichandran (0) and Shreyas Gopal (27 disconnected 83 balls, 1 four) failed to person their starts.
