Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal, who was not too long ago hospitalised after ingesting a suspicious liquid on-board a flight, has recovered and can return to guide his crew towards Tamil Nadu in its subsequent Ranji Trophy Group C match in Chennai from Friday. The 32-year-old batter had consumed the liquid on board his crew’s flight to Surat after the match towards Tripura final month. He needed to be admitted to a hospital to deal with the burning sensation in his mouth and throat. Agarwal went on to file an FIR alleging foul play. He consequently missed Karnataka’s final engagement towards Railways.

However, he was cleared of any main well being challenge by the medical doctors right here, paving the best way for his comeback to the crew.

Promising batter Nikin Jose had led Karnataka towards Railways within the absence of Agarwal and the previous champions eked out a nervy one-wicket win at Surat with veteran Manish Pandey making an unbeaten fifty.

Currently, Tamil Nadu lead Group C with 21 factors, identical as Karnataka. But TN are main the chart due to their higher web run fee 2.06.

Agarwal’s return will increase their batting because the Karnataka opener thus far has scored 310 runs from 4 matches at a mean of 44 with two a whole bunch and a fifty.

Karnataka have additionally acquired additional increase in batting because the in-form Devdutt Padikkal too will likely be accessible for this match.

From three matches, the left-hander has amassed 369 runs at a mean of 92.25 with two a whole bunch.

Padikkal missed the final match as a result of the 23-year-old was a part of the India A squad that confronted England Lions at Ahmedabad.

Opener Dega Nischal and Abhishek Shetty moved apart for Agarwal and Padikkal.

Karnataka squad towards TN: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Nikin Jose (vice-captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Samarth R, Manish Pandey, Sharath Srinivas (wk), Aneesh KV, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Vasuki Koushik, Shashikumar Okay, Sujay Sateri (wk), Vidwath Kaverappa, Venkatesh M, Kishan S Bedare, Rohit Kumar AC, Hardik Raj. Coach: PV Shashikanth.