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Bengaluru, Feb 6 (PTI) Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal, who was recently hospitalised after drinking a suspicious liquid on-board a flight, has recovered and will return to lead his team against Tamil Nadu in its next Ranji Trophy Group C match in Chennai from Friday.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old batter had consumed the liquid on board his team’s flight to Surat after the match against Tripura last month. He had to be admitted to a hospital to treat the burning sensation in his mouth and throat.<\/p>\n
Agarwal went on to file an FIR alleging foul play. He consequently missed Karnataka’s last engagement against Railways.<\/p>\n
However, he was cleared of any major health issue by the doctors here, paving the way for his comeback to the team.<\/p>\n
Promising batter Nikin Jose had led Karnataka against Railways in the absence of Agarwal and the former champions eked out a nervy one-wicket win at Surat with veteran Manish Pandey making an unbeaten fifty.<\/p>\n
Currently, Tamil Nadu lead Group C with 21 points, same as Karnataka. But TN are leading the chart because of their better net run rate 2.06.<\/p>\n
Agarwal’s return will boost their batting as the Karnataka opener so far has scored 310 runs from four matches at an average of 44 with two hundreds and a fifty.<\/p>\n
Karnataka have also received further boost in batting as the in-form Devdutt Padikkal too will be available for this match.<\/p>\n
From three matches, the left-hander has amassed 369 runs at an average of 92.25 with two hundreds.<\/p>\n
Padikkal missed the last match because the 23-year-old was part of the India A squad that faced England Lions at Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
Opener Dega Nischal and Abishek Shetty moved aside for Agarwal and Padikkal.<\/p>\n
Karnataka squad against TN: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Nikin Jose (vice-captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Samarth R, Manish Pandey, Sharath Srinivas (wk), Aneesh KV, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Vasuki Koushik, Shashikumar K, Sujay Sateri (wk), Vidwath Kaverappa, Venkatesh M, Kishan S Bedare, Rohit Kumar AC, Hardik Raj. Coach:<\/p>\n
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