Ranji Trophy Final Score, Jammu And Kashmir vs Karnataka Day 5: Qamran Iqbal Slams 100,

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Karnataka vs Jammu and Kashmir,Ranji Trophy 2025-26 Final: Jammu and Kashmir are on the verge of winning their first-ever Ranji Trophy title, thanks to a huge first-innings lead.

Jammu and Kashmir vs Karnataka, Ranji Trophy Final:

Jammu and Kashmir batter Qamran Iqbal has completed his century on Day 5 of the Ranji Trophy final against Karnataka, taking his lead past 500 runs. Jammu and Kashmir chose to bat first and clinched a decisive first innings lead that has made them favorites to lift their first-ever Ranji Trophy final. Earlier, J&K posted a mammoth 584 in their first innings, led by Shubham Pundir’s century (121). With the ball, J&K bowled out Karnataka for 293, thanks largely to pace spearhead Auqib Nabi’s outstanding five-wicket haul. Veteran Mayank Agarwal slammed a superb century (160), in what was Karnataka’s only innings of

100 for Qamran Iqbal!

A Ranji Trophy final century for J&K’s Qamran Iqbal! He smashes a boundary against the experienced Shreyas Gopal to complete his ton in 189 balls. His 12th boundary of the match. Hugely decisive knock that has brought J&K to the brink of their first Ranji Trophy crown.

The boundary also takes J&K’s lead past 500!

J&K 214/4 (72)

200 up!

200 is up for Jammu and Kashmir in the second innings. They got off to a shaky start, and were 11/2 at one stage, but Qamran Iqbal and co have steering the ship to safety. The lead? Nearly 500 now.

Qamran Iqbal on 97

J&K batsman Qamran Iqbal is approaching a historic hundred — one in the Ranji Trophy final. He is batting on 97, having hit 11 borders and 1 six so far. The 24-year-old opened the innings and has shown nerves of steel.

J&K 198/4 (63)

Jammu & Kashmir 584 and 186 for 4 (Qamran 94*, Samad 32, Prasidh 2-42) led Karnataka 293 (Mayank 160, Kruthik 36, Nabi 5-54, Sunil 2-51) by 477 runs

There was spice, there were war of words, there was another Auqib Nabi five-wicket haul, and at the end of it all, Jammu & Kashmir had one hand on a virgin Ranji Trophy title at the end of day four of the final in Hubbali.

Trailing by a mammoth 364 runs, Karnataka needed someone to hang around with centurion Mayank Agarwal. Kruthik Krishna managed to do that for a while, adding 79 runs for the sixth wicket off 175 balls. But one contentious lbw decision, and it all unraveled for the hosts. Kruthik fell for 36, and with the second new ball, the awesome Auqib ran amok, picking up 5 for 54 to bowl out Karnataka for 293 and secure a mammoth 291-run lead.

The Karnataka bowlers, searching for a miracle, reduced J&K to 11 for 2 after they opted to bat again instead of enforcing the follow-on. But Qamran Iqbal, who has an unconventional technique, scored an unbeaten 94 to all but seal Karnataka’s fate. At stumps on day four, J&K had stretched their lead to 477 runs with six wickets intact.

J&K started day four with the two fast bowlers Nabi and Yudhvir Singh in tandem, but with the new ball due soon, the two gave way to the spinners. And that’s when Sahil Lotra struck a decisive blow, one that quickly became a subject of discussion.

Bowling from around the wicket, the offspinner got the ball to land on off and came in with the angle, rapping Kruthik on the front pad. The on-field umpire had his finger up, with Kruthik reviewing immediately. His bat and pad were close together, and it was not clear whether the ball hit his pad first or the bat. After multiple replays, the third umpire had no evidence to overturn the on-field decision, and off went a perplexed Kruthik.

Vidhyadhar Patil walked in next, and by this time, the new ball was available.

Then left-arm quick Sunil Kumar did not take much time to strike. From around the wicket, Sunil went wide of the crease and angled the ball into Patil, who was forced to play the line and finished up managing a thin edge to the wicketkeeper.

With regular wicketkeeper Kanhaiya Wadhawan off the field, Agarwal got a reprieve when he edged Nabi to the right of the stand-in wicketeeper Dikshant Kundal, who failed to hang on. The resulting four brought up Mayank’s 150, but soon enough, Nabi was back among the wickets. He got the ball to nip away from Agarwal around off stump, and with the batsman on the move, he missed and got hit on the pad.

While the on-field umpire did not give that out, the decision was overturned via DRS as Agarwal walked back for a sensational 160. Vyshak then played a few agricultural shots, but Nabi struck for the fifth time when he had Shikhar Shetty caught in front, a decision requiring the interference of the third umpire again. It was Nabi’s seventh five-wicket haul this season, and in the process, he also became the highest wicket-taker of the 2025–26 Ranji Trophy with 60 strikes to his name.

Prasidh slammed Yudhvir down the track but was discarded for 4, caught at mid-on, as Karnataka were bowled out for 293.

Any chance of a Karnataka comeback depended on early wickets. And Prasidh gave them hope by striking with his first ball, clearing up opener Yawer Hassan via an inside edge onto the stumps. Then, on the last ball before lunch, Vyshak had first-innings centurion Shubham Pundir strangled down leg. With J&K at 11 for 2, and forward by a big but not out of reaching 302 runs, Karnataka would have harbored hopes of a miracle.