Mysuru, Oct 26 (PTI) Left-arm spinner Shikhar Shetty took five wickets as Karnataka dominated an inexperienced Tripura on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match here on Monday.
Shetty (5/54) completed his third five-wicket haul in First-Class cricket as Karnataka bowled out Tripura for an under-par 194 in their first innings.
Karnataka were 10 for one at stumps as former skipper Mayank Agarwal succumbed to pacer Abhijit Sarkar.
The home side trails by 184 runs.
The 21-year-old Shetty received ample support from pacer Manvanth Kumar, who took three wickets while conceding 23 runs.
Manvanth had rescued Karnataka from a tricky situation last week against Saurashtra, scoring a gritty hundred in only his second First-Class game.
Tripura batters could not handle the constant pressure created by the two Karnataka bowlers, losing wickets regularly.
The highest alliance in their first innings was of 47 runs between Bikramkumar Das (51) and Hrituraj Ghosh Roy (13), before Das fell to pacer Vyshak Vijayakumar.
Bikram Debnath made a defiant unbeaten 33 down the order but it was too little, too late for the visitors.
However, Tripura will take heart from the wicket of Agarwal and they need some quick early wickets on Day 2 to keep the pressure on Karnataka.
Brief scores
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At Mysuru: Tripura: 194 all out in 82 overs (Bikramkumar Das 51, Bikram Debnath 33 not out; Abhilash Shetty 5/54, L Manvanth Kumar 3/23) vs Karnataka: 10/1 in 6 overs.
At Vijayawada: Andhra: 231 all out in 73.2 overs (Rahul Seeram 89, KV Sasikanth 31; Jayant Yadav 4/75, Ajay Mandal 3/56) vs Chhattisgarh: 35/1 in 14 overs.
At Secunderabad: Punjab: 289/6 in 90 overs (Prabhsimran Singh 81, Ramandeep Singh 52, Salil Arora 57 batting; Rakshan Readdi 2/53) vs Hyderabad.
At Rajkot: Assam: 235/6 in 93 overs (Denish Das 90, Sibsankar Roy 59 batting; Jaydev Unadkat 3/27) vs Saurashtra. PTI UNG DDV
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