Ranji Trophy 2023-24 Highlights, Round 1 Matches Day 2: Pujara hammers unbeaten century, helps Saurashtra take 264-run lead against Jharkhand

Tripura 484 in 123.4 Overs vs Goa 53/4 in 22 Overs 

Andhra 119/3 in 48.1 Overs vs Bengal 409 all out in 126.2 Overs

Bihar 89/6 in 37 Overs vs Mumbai 251 all out in 76.2 Overs

Chhattisgarh 327 all out in 116.2 Overs vs Assam 87/4 in 51 Overs

Saurashtra 406/4 in 119 Overs vs Jharkhand 142 all out in 49 Overs

Maharashtra 320 all out in 81.2 Overs vs Manipur 137 & 85/4 in 39 Overs 

Vidarbha 191/8 in 78 Overs vs Services 241 all out in 87.5 Overs

Karnataka 461/6 in 123 Overs vs Punjab 152 all out in 46.5 Overs

Chandigarh 96 all out in 38.3 Overs vs Railways 313/4 in 83 Overs

Gujarat 236 & 38/3 in 13 Overs vs Tamil Nadu 250 all out in 67.5 Overs

Uttarakhand 170/6 in 68 Overs vs Madhya Pradesh 323 all out in 109.3 Overs

Jammu and Kashmir 100 all out in 35.3 Overs vs Himachal Pradesh 109/1 in 26.3 Overs

Baroda 351 & 43/1 in 13 Overs vs Odisha 178 all out in 58.2 Overs

Delhi 148 all out in 62.5 Overs vs Pondicherry 113/2 in 29 Overs

Arunachal Pradesh 94 & 57/2 in 16 Overs vs Meghalaya 509/9 decl

Mizoram 106/5 in 35 Overs vs Sikkim 442/9 dec

Uttar Pradesh 302 all out vs Kerala 220/6 in 65 Overs 

Sanju Samson and Shreyas Gopal are out in the middle, but it is advantage Uttar Pradesh. Kerala still trails by 108 runs and has already lost half its side.

Sahil: Rasheed is caught on the last ball before stumps. He’s not happy with the decision though. 

After his heroics with the bat Warrier comes in and removes opener Aarya Desai first ball. 

Chintan Gaja induces Sandeep Warrier into a false shot and has him caught at mid off, but after a lengthy check, third umpire signals a no-ball and Warrier survives. 

Warrier holes out four balls later to third man to bring the TN innings to a close.

Mohammed falls for 85, with TN one run short of Gujarat’s first innings total. Bishnoi with some wild celebrations after the wicket. Was full outside off, Mohammed looked to drive but only managed to find cover. 

Prashanth Kumar falls for 41 to Mohammed Kaif to break the 48-run stand. Hanuma Vihari in at 4.

Kuldeep Singh Yadav removes Vishnu Vinod for 74 from 94 balls. Captain Sanju Samson joins Shreyas Gopal in the middle and tonks a six of the first ball he faces.

100-run stand between the two opening bowlers of Tamil Nadu. M Mohammed hugely impressive in his 76 while Sandeep Warrier has given him solid support with 24.

Kuldeep Singh Yadav removes Sachin Baby for 38 off 90 balls. Shreyas Gopal joins Vishnu Vinod at the crease. Kerala trails by 168 runs vs UP.

Sachin Kumar Singh is bowled by Shivam Dube as Bihar falls to 81/6. Mohit Avasthi completes a four-fer. Trails Mumbai by 170 runs.

Chama Milind picks up four to restrict Nagaland to 127. Nagaland lose by 194 runs. Tanay Thyagarajan picks up the last two wickets to fall, finishing with eight wickets in the game.

Sachin Baby and Vishnu Vinod, the crisis men of Kerala stitch up another crucial partnership after the fall of early wickets. 93-run stand so far. Kerala trails UP by 177 runs.

Fifty for M Mohammed!! A five wicket haul yesterday followed by a crucial 50 after a flurry of wickets to reduce the arrears for Tamil Nadu against Gujarat.

C R Gnaneshwar falls for 35 to hand Bengal the first wicket off the innings. Pradipta Pramanik with the scalp. Shaik Rasheed joins Prashanth Kumar at the crease.

61st FC century for Cheteshwar Pujara against Jharkhand, coming off 162 balls. Saurashtra with a comfortable 187 run lead with six wickets in hand. 

SAU 329/4 in 95 overs

Vasavada is trapped in front by Ashish for 68 off 171 balls. Full ball jagging back into the left hander, looked plumb. Pujara unbeaten on 97 at the other end.

A sedate start for the Pondicherry openers after bundling out Delhi for 148 in the first innings. Pondicherry trail by 129 runs. 

Manish Pandey falls for 118 of 165 balls holing out to Abhishek Sharma off the bowling of Arshdeep SIngh. 

Bihar three down in the chase of 251 against Mumbai. Mohit Avasthi picks up two while the prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi falls to Shivam Dube for 19.

Swapnil K Singh is run out by Aditya Shrivastava to reduce Uttarakhand to 79 for five against MP. A long way to go to reach the MP total of 323.

Saurashtra has taken a good lead against Jharkhand, and most importantly, Cheteshwar Pujara is approaching his century. The India international has forged an unbeaten 125-run partnership with Vasavada, who has smashed an unbeaten half-century. 

Has mostly been Andhra’s day out so far. The conditions have been good for batting, and the home team is making the most of it.

Devdutt Padikkal missed out on a double century as the Karnataka batsman falls for a 216-ball 193. Manish Pandey has scored an unbeaten 104 off 146 balls, and as S Sharath joins the veteran batsman. 

Bishnoi strikes again as he removes TN captain Sai Kishore for 2. Was a google outside off, Sai Kishore looked to drive it off the front foot but only managed a catch to second slip.

Kerala loses its third wicket as Rohan Prem falls. Sachin Baby and Vishnu Vinod are in the middle with their side trailing by 267 runs.

Five wicket haul for Gourav Yadav!! Harsh Tyagi the latest to be dismissed for 34(49) balls. 

The Meghalaya skipper brings up a double hundred again Arunachal Pradesh off just 224 balls. A huge lead of 325 already in the bag for Meghalaya.

Meghalaya 419/4 in 101.2 overs

Karun Nair falls for 24 as Vidarbha plummet to 60/4 in chase of 241 againt Services. Varun Choudhary the pick of the bowlers with three wickets.

Vijay Shankar’s resolute stay comes to an end as Ravi Bishnoi traps him in front for 33. Captain Sai Kishore walks in at 8. 

Sraman Nigrodh falls in the first over to Mohit Avasthi for 2. Bihar suffers an early jolt in the chase of 251.

Captain Wriddhiman Saha falls three short of his century, trapped in front by Mohit Redkar. B B Debnath joins Manisankar Mura Singh at the crease.

Sahil: That is some start of Andhra innings. Akash Deep got Gnaneshwar edge on the first ball but umpire checked and found him in overstepping. A huge roar from Andhra camp!

Veer Pratap Singh picks up a fifer as Bihar restrict Mumbai to 251 in a match that has been affected badly by bad light. Mohit Avasthi the last to fall for 15.

Nagaland has been forced to follow on and it gets off to the worst start, losing two wickets in the first two overs. Kartikeya Kak and Chama Milind get one wicket each.

Rinku Singh missed out on a cemtury as Kerala bundled out Uttar Pradesh for 302 in 83.4 Overs. Meanwhile, in reply, Kerala has lost Krishna Prasad and Rohan Kunnummal at the stroke of Lunch to be reduced to 19/2 in 6.2 Overs.

A five-wicket for Tanay Thyagarajan as Hyderabad bowls out Nagaland for 153. A comprehensive lead of 321 runs may tempt them to go all out for an innings victory.

Pradosh edges a fuller ball from Nagwaswalla back to the keeper. Very similar to the Sachin dismissal. The important stand between him and Vijay Shankar is now broken.

Sahil: Abishek pulls Nishant for a six. On the next delivery, he does the same but this he’s caught in the deep. Bengal is all out for 409.

Sahil: Abishek is playing brilliantly. In complete control of the proceedings and Ishan is hanging in there with the help of his solid defence.

It is helping that Vihari has kept the field open so there’s not much trouble for Abishek to take a single whenever he wants.

150 for Devdutt Padikkal! Partnership with Manish Pandey has now crosses 170. Karnataka leads by 129 against Punjab.

Five wicket haul for K C Cariappa, playing for Mizoram. Saurav Kumar Prasad is out right after his fifty. 

Kshitiz Sharma is castled by Gourav Yadav for 28 off 77 balls. Delhi in deep trouble against Pondicherry.

A 72-ball fifty for Cheteshwar Pujara laced with six boundaries. Fifty partnership with Arpit Vasavada up as well.

First ball duck for Krishna Prasad as he is caught behind by Akshdeep Nath off the bowling of Ankit Rajpoot. Kerala trails by 297 runs.

Manish Pandey has hit a half-century and the partnership between him and Devdutt Padikkal is worth an unbeaten 130 off 188 balls. Karnataka leads by 88 runs against Punjab.

Himmat Singh falls for 24 off 95 balls, trapped in front by Saurabh Yadav. Delhi loses its fifth. 

Hrithik Shokeen is sent back for nought first ball by Gourav Yadav immediately after.

Kuldeep Singh Yadav is dismissed by veteran offie Jalaj Saxena to help Kerala close out the innings at 302.

Ravi Kishan is the last wicket to fall. Kunal Sharma scalps him for five. Chhattisgarh 327/10 in 116.2 overs

Kishan Singha removes A Palkar and Vicky Ostwal. Maharashtra leads by 79 runs and will probably need to bat again to win this match outright.

Sahil: Spinners are doing the trick here now. Bengal has now lost 9 wickets. Shoaib in his first over of the day has got the wicket.

MP’s first innings ends at 323. Saransh Jain’s 100 off 239 balls was the top score of the innings. Venkatesh Iyer scoring a valuable 89 as well. Quite a big task at hand for Uttarakhand.

Devdutt Padikkal continues to attack as the 200 is up for Karnataka with the lead building up nicely. Veteran Manish Pandey is batting on 36 and the partnership is worth 90 off 145 balls for the fourth wicket partnership.

Rinku Singh falls agonisingly short of his century, falling for 92 to Nidheesh M D. Yash Dayal is dismissed first ball and Kerala are one wicket away from closing out the innings.

Harvik Desai cuts Anukul Roy straight to backward point and falls 15 short of his century. 

Sahil: Three wickets this morning for Andhra with still 40 minutes to lunch. They have choked the scoring rate as well. Sasikanth’s second wicket.

B Indrajith and Washington Sundar fall in quick succession to Chintan Gaja and Arzan Nagwaswalla for 4 and 1 respectively. TN in deep trouble at 19/4.

Rinku Singh in on the verge of hitting a brilliant century as the middle-order batsman is batting on 91. His stay will be crucial as Kerala has made inroads and will look to polish off the tail with Jalaj Saxena picking a three-wicket haul. 

Tanay Thyagarajan has picked a three-wicket haul and has put Hyderabad ahead as Nagaland loses its fifth wicket and trails by 367 runs. T Ravi Teja and C V Milind have picked a wicket each.

Wicketkeeper batter Nikhil Naik is dismissed by Ajay Singh for 11 off 18 balls. Maharashtra 175/6

A century for Devdutt Padikkal!! 16 fours in the innings for the left-hander as he picks up where he left off in the limited overs domestic tournaments.

The debutant B Sachin is gone for 9 off 29 balls. Was a full ball from Nagwaswalla forced Sachin into a drive but his feet went nowhere. Indrajith in at 4.

A hundred for Kishan Lyndoh!! 103 runs off 112 balls. Meghalaya 253/2 

Dhruv Jurel is dismissed by Basil Thampi for 63 off 123 balls. Krishna Prasad with the catch. 

Sai Sudharshan departs early for Tamil Nadu. 1 run off 22 balls for the southpaw. Pradosh Ranjan in at 3. Priyajitsinh Jadeja with the wickets. 

Rajesh Mohanty removes Mahesh Pithiya for 3 off 9 balls. Odisha needs two more wickets to bowl Baroda out.

Rahul Shukla removes Sheldon Jackson after his fifty. Extra bounce on that ball and it catches the glove on the way to the keeper. Cheteswar Pujara in at 4.

Kedar Jadhav and Azim Kazi fall in quick succession to Bishworjit. Maharashtra 152/5 in 38 overs.

Second wicket of the morning for Tanay Thyagarajan as he gets the opposition captain R Jonathan for 15 off 39 balls.

Chhatisgarh reach 275/6 with Shashank completing his fifty off 66 balls with six fours and one six.

Domestic stalwart Jackson reaches his fifty in 60 balls. Eight fours and one six in the knock. Saurashtra 121/1.

Maharashtra captain Kedar Jadhav brings up his fifty in 68 balls laced with five fours and two sixes. Maharashtra 128/3.

Sedezhalie is dismissed by left-arm spinner Tanay Thyagarajan for 12 off 53 balls. 

Sahil: A celebappeal by Andhra as they thought Tiwary had edged it but umpire didn’t think so. The players were in shock. Pruthvi screamed in disbelief. Such were the scenes that umpire had to talk to Vihari. Pruthvi gave a side hug to umpire after that.

Ajay Mandal is trapped in front for 4 by Mukhtar Hussain. Assam needs four more wickets to restrict Chhatisgarh. 

Sahil, our reporter from the ground: A wicket in the third over of the day. Sasikanth strikes in his first over today. Kaif went for the drive but ends up edging it to the keeper. 

Nagaland breach the 50-run mark early on Day 2. Captain Rongsten Jonathan is accompanied by Sedezhalie at the crease. Nagaland trails Hyderabad by 424 Runs.

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Ranji Trophy 2023-24: Rinku Singh, Dhruv Jurel rescue Uttar Pradesh against Kerala on opening day

IPL’s most expensive uncapped player Sameer Rizi (26) entertained the crowd by clubbing two fours and two sixes but he fell trying to hit Shreyas Gopal for his third.

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Ranji Trophy 2023-24: Koushik, Padikkal shine as Karnataka starts on a high against Punjab

V. Koushik picked up a career-best seven-wicket haul before Devdutt Padikkal scored a delightful unbeaten half-century to put Karnataka firmly in control.

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Ranji Trophy 2023-24: Anustup Majumdar, Sourav Paul give Bengal the edge over Andhra on opening day

Anustup Majumdar’s century and Sourav Paul’s 96 gave Bengal a hold over Andhra after the opening day of the Ranji Trophy group B fixture played at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Friday.

At Sovima, Nagaland 35/1 in 11 overs vs Hyderabad 474/5d

At Agartala, Tripura 261/4 in 74 overs vs Goa

At Vizag, Andhra vs Bengal 289/4 in 86 overs

At Patna, Bihar vs Mumbai 235/9 in 67 overs

At Raipur, Chhatisgarh 249/5 in 89.5 overs vs Assam

At Rajkot, Saurashtra 108/1 in 29 overs vs Jharkhand 142 in 49 overs

At Solapur, Maharashtra 123/3 in 32.3 overs vs Manipur 137 in 54.1 over

At Nagpur, Vidarbha vs Services 223/8 in 80 overs

At Alappuzha, Kerala vs Uttar Pradesh 244/5 in 64 overs

At Hubli, Karnataka 142/3 in 33 overs vs Punjab 152 in 46.5 overs

At Chandigarh, Chandigarh 96 in 38.3 overs vs Railways 73/0 in 16 overs

At Valsad, Gujarat 236 in 72.3 overs vs Tamil Nadu

At Dehradun, Uttarakhand vs Madhya Pradesh 291/7 in 90 overs

At Jammu, J&K 100 in 35.3 overs vs Himachal Pradesh 47/0 in 9 overs

At Vadodara, Baroda 322/6 in 88 overs vs Odisha

At Delhi, Delhi 40/4 in 19 overs vs Pondicherry

At Anand, Arunachal Pradesh 94 in 29.4 overs vs Meghalaya 203/2 in 58 overs

At Nadiad, Mizoram vs Sikkim 251/5 in 90 overs

At Lahli, Haryana vs Rajasthan - Day 1 washed out

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