Avesh Khan took 4 wickets as defending champions Madhya Pradesh bowled out Railways for 274 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group D match in Indore on Tuesday. Avesh returned with figures of 4 for 69, whereas Saransh Jain and Puneet Datey (2/52) shared 4 wickets between them as Madhya Pradesh took 87.4 overs to fold Railways’ innings. Besides, Kumar Kartikeya (1/57) and Shubham Sharma (1/8) picked up a wicket every.
Electing to bat, Railways didn’t have the perfect of begins as Avesh struck within the fifth supply of the match, eradicating Vivek Singh.
The India pacer got here again within the sixteenth over to account for the wicket of Shivam Chaudhary (21) earlier than Shubham Sharma dismissed Rahul Rawat (29) to cut back Railways to 68 for 3 within the twenty fifth over.
Mohammad Saif (39) and Shubham Chaubey (24) added 44 runs for the fourth wicket earlier than each the batters departed. Skipper Upendra Yadav top-scored for Railways with a gritty 61 off 123 balls and hit eight boundaries within the course of.
Towards the top, Akash Pandey (24 not out) and Adarsh Singh (24) performed helpful fingers to take Railways previous the 250-run mark.
Brief Scores: At Indore: Railways 274 all out in 87.4 overs (Upendra Yadav 61; Avesh Khan 4/69) vs Madhya Pradesh.
At Agartala: Punjab 62 for 1 in 17 overs (Prabhsimran Singh 41 batting; Ajay Sarkar 1/17) vs Tripura.
At Ahmedabad: Chandigarh 247 for 7 in 90 overs (Bhagmender Lather 68 batting, Arslan Khan 56, Gaurav Puri 51; Shen Patel 4/77) vs Gujarat.
At Nagpur: Jammu and Kashmir 191 all out in 68 overs (Musaif Ajaz 41, Suryansh Raina 30; Yash Thakur 4/40) vs Vidarbha 58 for two in 21.1 overs (Atharva Taide 24; Abid Mushtaq 1/2).
Dhapola’s eight-wicket punch demolishes Himachal
Uttarakhand seam bowler Deepak Dhapola breathed fireplace on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match, grabbing eight Himachal Pradesh wickets because the guests had been bundled out for 49 runs on Tuesday. Dhapola, 32, dismissed three gamers for duck and returned figures of 8/35 off 8.3 overs as Himachal couldn’t climate the storm and had been dismissed inside 17 overs.
At stumps on day one, Uttarakhand had been batting on 295 for six, having taken an enormous 246-run first-innings lead. Aditya Tare (91 not out) and Abhay Negi (48 not out) confirmed there have been no demons within the pitch as they batted with confidence.
But the spotlight of the day was Bageshwar-born Dhapola’s bowling. The seamer, who made his first-class debut in 2018 and is taking part in solely his fifteenth sport, had a earlier greatest bowling figures of seven/50 in an innings, however on Tuesday he bettered his private greatest as Himachal batters made a beeline to the dressing room.
Dhapola’s feat didn’t miss the eye of the BCCI secretary Jay Shah who termed it as one of many best bowling performances of the event.
“Ranji Trophy has time and again helped bring out raw homegrown talent onto the forefront. This time it’s Deepak Dhapola! His 8/35 against Himachal is one of the finest bowling performances of the tournament. Long way to go!” tweeted Shah.
Dhapola, who was the main wicket-taker for his state within the group stage of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy with 44 dismissals in seven matches and completed the event with 45 wickets in eight video games, will look to enhance his greatest bowling figures in a first-class match (12/96) when he comes out with the purple cherry within the second innings.
His dominance was such that just one Himachal batter — Ankit Kalsi (26) — might handle a double-dight rating with 4 batters returning to the dressing room with out opening their account.
Uttarakhand started their innings on a assured be aware with Priyanshu Khanduri (36) and skipper Jiwanjot Singh (45) giving a strong begin to the hosts. Later, Aditya Tare’s composed unbeaten 91 put them heading in the right direction for an enormous whole.
With Dhapola just about unplayable, Uttarakhand might go all out to complete the match inside two days.
Brief scores: At Dehradun: Himachal 49 in 16.3 overs (Deepak Dhapola 8/35, Abhay Negi 2/5) vs Uttarakhand 295 for six in 65 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 45, Aditya Tare 91 n.o., Abhay Negi 48 n.o.; Rishi Dhawan 3/52).
At Sovima: Nagaland 166 for 9 in 62 overs (Chetan Bist 64; Pradipta Pramanik 5/43) versus Bengal.
At Cuttack: Haryana 306 for five in 90 overs (Nishant Sindhu 142 n.o.; Rohit Sharma 55) versus Odisha.
At Vadodara: Uttar Pradesh 225 for 7 in in 91 overs (Priyam Garg 52, Akshdeep Nath 57 n.o; Bhargav Bhatt 3/81) versus Baroda.
Samarth’s ton drives Karnataka to 294/3 towards Goa
Opener R Samarth’s wonderful knock of 140 and his century partnerships with skipper Mayank Agarwal and Vishal Onat powered Karnataka to 294/3 towards Goa of their Ranji Trophy Group C match on Tuesday. Agarwal gained the toss, opted to bat and offered a robust begin for the crew by including 116 runs with Samarth. The two regarded untroubled towards the Goa assault and accomplished a century stand after a cautious begin.
Agarwal appeared set for an enormous rating earlier than he fell LBW to Lakshay Garg for 50, which included 5 boundaries and two sixes.
Samarth and Onat (73 batting, 172 balls, 9 fours) constructed on the platform offered by the opening partnership and piled on the Goa bowlers’ distress.
The house crew assault comprising Arjun Tendulkar, Garg, Darshan Misal and Mohit Radkar was taken to the duty by Samarth and Onat.
Samarth raced to a ton and was batting on 120 at tea. He added 20 extra runs to his rating earlier than being dismissed by Tendulkar (1 for 30). It was a 3rd straight first-class century for Samarth, after having completed so towards Services and Puducherry in earlier video games.
The promising S J Nikin Jose (9) fell to left-arm spinner Darshan Misal (1 for 73) within the 86th over. Onat and the skilled Manish Pandey (8 batting) ensured that no additional wickets fell earlier than stumps had been drawn on day one.
At Thumba, Kerala ended the day at 100 for two after having dismissed Chhattisgarh for 149 in underneath 50 overs with the skilled spinner Jalaj Saxena selecting up 5 wickets.
Brief scores: Karnataka 294 for 3 in 90 overs (R Samarth 140 (238 balls, 14 fours), Vishal Onat 73 batting, Mayank Agarwal 50) vs Goa.
At Thumba: Chhattisgarh 149 all out in 49.5 overs (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 40, Mayank Yadav 29 not out, Jalaj Saxena 5/48) vs Kerala 100 for two in 38 overs (Rohan S Kunnumal 32, Rohan Prem 29 batting).
At Puducherry: Rajasthan 333 for 9 in 82 overs (Manav Suthar 95 batting (87 balls, 8X4, 5X6), Deepak Hooda 94 (128 balls, 8X4, 4X6)) vs Pondicherry.
At Jamshedpur: Services 326 for six in 90 overs (Rajat Paliwal 76, M S Rathee 60 batting, Rahul Singh Gahlaut 60, Sufiyan Alam 58, Anukul Roy 3/60) vs Jharkhand.
Tamil Nadu pacers limit Delhi to 212/6 on Day 1
In-form Dhruv Shorey blew away a chance to attain his third successive hundred in as many innings as Tamil Nadu restricted hosts Delhi to 212 for six on opening day of a Group B Ranji Trophy sport on Tuesday. Shorey (66, 168 balls) and left-handed Jonty Sidhu (57, 107 balls) added 105 runs for the third wicket however the house crew might hardly dominate on a Feroz Shah Kotla monitor which turned good for batting after the primary hour and half.
But the way wherein Sidhu and Vaibhav Rawal (11) had been out defending gradual bouncers from pacer Sandeep Warrier (3/59 in 22 overs) was embarrassing to say the least. Warrier and fellow seamer L Vignesh (3/42 in 19 overs) had been disciplined as they bowled a probing line and hit good lengths repeatedly. It was a great toss that Tamil Nadu skipper Baba Indrajith gained as he rightly put Delhi into bat in chilly and overcast circumstances.
In reality, Vignesh, within the morning session, bowled sporting an off white woolen headgear. Opener Anuj Rawat bought one from Vignesh that was pitched up and the unfastened shot was snapped up by Vijay Shankar at gully.
In the morning, the ball was nonetheless doing a bit and captain Yash Dhull (0) tried an bold sq. reduce when Vignesh’s supply pitched again of size and reared up. However, Dhull was unfortunate as there was no edge however he was dominated out on account of a poor choice by the umpire.
Shorey, buoyed by his 252 and 150 not out towards Assam, was very watchful and had the stodgy Sidhu for firm. They punished the unfastened deliveries however to be truthful to Tamil Nadu pacers, they maintained self-discipline for sustained intervals.
Warrier was notably good with the outdated ball as he dismissed Sidhu with a properly directed bouncer which the southpaw fended along with his bat over his head and N Jagadeesan took a easy catch. But Rawal would not like to look at his dismissal. It was a gradual bouncer bowled at 116 kmph by Warrier and he bought right into a tangle attempting to save lots of his face with out gauging the tempo of the supply and easiest of return catches was gleefully accepted by Warrier.
“Last season, we didn’t try the short ball tactic that much but this year, we had decided that we need to use it,” Warrier advised mediapersons after the match.
If there was one particular person, who would curse himself, it could be Shorey, who had completed all of the hardwork for the earlier 167 deliveries earlier than Vignesh blended it up cleverly.
He bowled just a few inswingers and adopted it up with a pleasant outgoing supply on drivable size. Playing away from his physique on account of lapse of focus, the thickish edge resulted in a diving Baba Aparajith plucking one inches off the bottom.
Lalit Yadav (33 batting), who hit the one six of the day without work seamer Vijay Shankar and Himmat Singh (25) added 43 runs for the sixth wicket.
Tamil Nadu primarily used pacers as India worldwide Washington Sundar (9 overs) and lead spinner R Sai Kishore (2 overs) solely bowled 11 out of the 76 overs.
The credit score for the dismissal of Himmat ought to go to Warrier as he fantastically set-up the batter with a few outswingers earlier than a pointy in-cutter breached via his defences.
“I wanted to bowl an incoming delivery but I didn’t expect such huge movement,” he mentioned.
Brief Scores: In Delhi: Delhi 1st Innings 212/6 in 76 overs (Dhruv Shorey 66, Jonty Sidhu 57, Sandeep Warrier 3/59; L Vignesh 3/42) vs Tamil Nadu.
In Mumbai: Saurashtra 1st Innings 289 in 79.1 overs (Arpit Vasavada 75, Sheldon Jackson 47; Shams Mulani 4/109) vs Mumbai 1st Innings 36/2 in 8 overs (Suryakumar Yadav 18 batting, Ajinkya Rahane 12 batting).
In Hyderabad: Assam 1st Innings 205 in 56.4 overs (Swarupam Purkayastha 83; Ravi Teja 4/53, Kartikeya Kak 3/43) vs Hyderabad 1st Innings 78/3 in 27 overs (Rohit Rayudu 22 batting, Mukhtar Hussain 2/25).
In Vizianagaram: Maharashtra 1st Innings 200 in 57.3 overs (Saurabh Nawale 70, Nitsih Kumar Reddy 5/53) vs Andhra 58/2 in 23 overs (Hanuma Vihari 15 batting).
Bihar attain 247/7 after younger keeper’s maiden first-class ton
Young wicketkeeper-batter Bipin Saurabh struck his maiden first-class century as Bihar reached 247 for seven towards Meghalaya on day considered one of their Ranji Trophy plate group match on Tuesday. At stumps, Sakibul Gani was batting on 52, whereas Shivam Kumar was but to open his account on the Meghalaya Cricket Association Cricket Ground.
Rajesh Bishnoi was essentially the most profitable bowler for Meghalaya, taking 4 wickets for 56 runs in 22 overs.
Opting to bat, Bihar had been off to a poor begin, dropping opener Babul Kumar within the very supply of the match. Soon they had been 14 for 2 as Kumar Mridul (12), having struck three boundaries in a short keep, was dismissed by Akash Choudhary.
Sachin Kumar (52), Bipin Saurabh (107) and Gani then helped Bihar get well and shut in on 250 by the top of day’s play. Only 68 overs of play was potential owing to unhealthy mild.
In the day’s different plate group sport, in Rangpo, Mizoram scored 225 for seven towards hosts Sikkim, with former Punjab batter Taruwar Kohli making 94 off 190 balls and native participant Zothanzuala battling his option to 48 off 193 balls.
Brief scores: Bihar: 247/7 in 68 overs (Bipin Saurabh 107, Sakibul Gani 52 batting, Sachin Kumar 52; Rajesh Bishnoi 4/56) vs Meghalaya.
Mizoram: 225/7 in 90 overs (Taruwar Kohli 94, Zothanzuala 48) vs Sikkim.
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