In-form Sagar Trivedi registers his career's first fifer

The pacer picked up the first three wickets of the innings from which Uttarakhand failed to recover.

Just three days after he recorded his career-best One Day figures with a four-fer, Sagar Trivedi went two up on Saturday to bag his maiden five-wicket haul in domestic cricket.

Playing in the Vijay Hazare Trophy match in the Plate Group fixture against Uttarakhand at Dehradun, Trivedi scalped 6/50 for Puducherry as the opposition was bundled out for 172.

Trivedi, who bowled for Shivaji Park Lions in the first season of T20 Mumbai in 2018, did the early damage as he picked up the first three wickets and reduced Uttarakhand to 21/3 in the tenth over, which soon became 75/6 in the 31st as the home team never managed to recover from the early assault.

The 27-year-old went on to pick three of the final four wickets as well, including the scalp of highest-scorer Dhanraj Sharma whose late onslaught ensured allowed Uttarakhand to get past the three-figure mark and post 172.

In the three Vijay Hazare Trophy matches so far, Trivedi has bagged 13 wickets at an astonishing 8.84 apiece and a strike rate of 10.61.

The match against Uttarakhand, abandoned after the first innings due to rain, is only his seventh List A appearance to go with his eight T20 matches.

Stingy spell from Abdulla

Dehradun hosted one more washed-out match on the day in which another T20 Mumbai player starred.

Iqbal Abdulla, who has been with ARCS Andheri since the inaugural season, picked up a miserly 3/4 from seven overs including four maidens in Sikkim's Plate Group game against Manipur, which helped shoot out the opposition for a paltry 120.

While Yashpal Singh bagged a four-fer, Abdulla played a significant part as he had his hand in dismissing the top order and made sure he conceded almost nothing and kept the pressure on the batsman. He scalped one-down batsman Karnajit Yumnam in the eighth over, bowled opener Prafullomani Singh in the 12th, ran out captain Priyojit Singh in the 19th and then trapped Rex Singh lbw in the 21st over accounting for four of the top six batsmen and the first seven wickets to fall.

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