Nair’s unbeaten knock contained 12 boundaries in 296 balls and Amit Verma’s unbeaten knock of 114 is studded with 17 boundaries in 265 deliveries.
At stumps Karnataka were leading by 177 runs with five wickets in hand in their first innings. This was in reply to Punjab’s first innings total of 270.
SCOREBOARD
Punjab (Ist innings): 270 (Jiwanjot 74, Vinay 5-27, Shreyas 3-92).
Karnataka (Ist innings): RV Uthapa lbw 47
KL Rahul c Khera b Gony 4
MA Aggarwal c Khera b Jaskaran Singh 0
MP Pandey c Khera b Sandeep Sharma 65
KK Nair batting 151
CM Gautam c Jiwanjot b Harbhajan Singh 48
Amit Verma batting 114
Extras (lb 7, nb 8) 15
Total (for five wickets in 146.1 overs) 447.
Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-23, 3-94, 4-158, 5-241
Bowling: Sandeep Sharma (1) 23-5-58-1
MS Gony 31-4-103-1
Jaskaran Singh 25-5-89-1
Harbhajan Singh 33-3-98-2
Yuvraj Singh 4-0-14-0
Taruwar Kohli 12.1-1-42-0
Gurkeerat Singh 18-3-36-0.