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Kuldeep Yadav's best first-class figures of 6 for 88 dismissed India Green for 277 and gave India Red a 219-run win in the country's maiden first-class game with the pink ball

Kuldeep Yadav's 5 for 55, the bowler's maiden first-class five-for, spliced through the heart of India Green's line-up on the third day of the Duleep Trophy match to render an already tough chase of 497 all but impossible

After playing awkwardly with the pink ball on day one, India Red, emboldened by centuries from Abhinav Mukund and Sudip Chatterjee, made purposeful strides in their second dig, and extended a 10-run first-innings lead to 354 runs by close of play

Seventeen wickets fell on the first day of first-class cricket in India with the pink ball, but it was largely because of poor shot-making rather than any demons that the pink ball bore