Ranji Trophy Day 3 Highlights: Saurashtra 10/1, needs 333 to win on final day; Mumbai 168/9 vs Delhi

Rahul Dalal’s century goes in vain as Arunachal Pradesh fails to attain parity with Mizoram’s first innings score. Mizoram finishes 5th in the Plate Group while Arunachal Pradesh ends last.

Runs have come at a trickle after tea. The visitors didn’t force the pace after Mayank’s dismissal. Only 70 runs came in the post tea session. Sharath is batting on 47 while Hegde is unbeaten on eight.

Chirag Jani hits two fours of the last over of the day. Chetan Sakariya was sent as a watchman after the early wicket and he played his part. Saurashtra will need exactly 333 runs on the final day.

A wicket in the very first over for Andhra. Lalith Mohan gets Harvik Desai caught and bowled. A mountain to climb for Saurashtra.

Andhra has declared the innings. Saurashtra needs 343 to win. A little more than 90 overs for Unadkat & Co. to navigate.

Rahul Hazarika and Subham Mandal remain resiliant. They’ve taken up 33 overs and blunted the Tamil Nadu attack. Need more of the same if Assam is to take a point from the match.

Bad light stops play. Mumbai leads by 92 runs as Tanush Kotain unbeaten on 42, trying to steer his team to a fightable total.

Shreyas Gopal misses out on a half-century as Vathsal Govind takes a bat and pad catch at short leg. The batter is disappointed at the missing landmark by two runs. Karnataka.

Mohit Avasthi’s defiance comes to an end. Divij Mehra has his fifer. He picks gets the batter’s edge and Himmat Singh completes a low catch. Mumbai’s lead is at 91 runs. Delhi closing in on a win.

T.R. Dhillon wastes no time. He scores all 30 runs of the run chase in just 15 balls. No bonus point for Maharashtra as it lost a wicket but still a dominating victory. This takes Maharashtra to 26 points, past Mumbai’s tally for now.

Chhattisgarh under a spot of bother. Suthar has picked all three wickets. Still 356 runs from the target.

Subhransu Senapati’s unbeaten 91 has taken Odisha into a 10-run lead. He has been suppported ably from the other end by Anurag Sarangi who is batting on 46. Shivam Mavi has picked the only wicket for UP.

Satyajeet Bacchav wipes out the Hyderabad tail. Bacchav and Hangargekar end up with three wickets each to set up the win. Maharashtra needs only 27 runs which surely offers an opportunity to collect a bonus point. Chandan Sahani’s 45-ball 59 offered some glimmer of hope and a chance for Hyderabad to comeback but he was offered no support from the other end.

Second wicket for Dharmendrasinh Jadeja. Nitish Kumar miscues a slog and sends it straight to Unadkat at mid-off. He falls on 4. The lead exactly at 300.

Tushar Deshpande falls. Mumbai has a nightmare start to the session. Anuj Rawat completes a sharp catch behind the stumps. The lead is at 74 runs. Delhi in pole position.

Assam’s second innings has moved at snail’s pace. The openers Subham Mandal and Rahul Hazarika have used up 15 overs to get to 20 runs. No boundaries so far. The deficit stands at 254 runs.

Shreyas Gopal and B.R. Sharath keep the scoreboard ticking as Karnataka’s lead inches past 20 runs. Kerala had a small window of opportunity to pull back after two quick wickets earlier in the day but Mayank’s 200 thwarted any hopes of a comeback.

Rahane goes after hitting a fifty. An excellent delivery by Pranshu Vijayran. The ball pitches and straightens. Rahane midreads the line and ends up edging to Vaibhav Rawal in the slip cordon. Mumbai leads by 65 and just has three wickets left.

Big wicket for Saurashtra! Hanuma Vihari is caught holes out to Prerak Mankad on 37. Yuvrajsinh Dodiya with his first wicket of the second innings. Andhra leads by 287.

Baroda has wrestled the control back from Uttarakhand. Fifties from Vishnu Solanki and Shashwat Rawat have seen the lead tick close to 150 runs.

Ajinkya Rahane reaches 50. There was almost a costly mix up between him and Tanush Kotian moments before his fifty. An important innings, but Mumbai still not out of the woods. Leads by 60 runs.

Hyderabad on the brink of defeat. It is still in a deficit of 18 runs. Two relatively new batters at the crease - Ankithreddy and Rakshann. Hangargekar has picked the best figures among Maharashtra bowlers, getting three wickets for 63 runs.

Ajinkya Rahane unbeaten on 42 at Tea, having added 35 runs with Tanush Kotian (22 not out). Mumbai leads by 52 runs.

A humbling defeat for defending champion Madhya Pradesh, which is bowled out for 77 in the second innings. Arshdeep Singh ends with four for 30 while Mayank Markande gets three for 19. Punjab’s 443 in the first innings too much for MP in the end.

Jammu and Kashmir posted a mammoth total, riding on Abhinav Puri’s 121. It was a team effort as all eight batters who batted got into double digits. One centurion four half-centurions in the innings. The bowlers continue the good work as Umar Nazir gets Ghosh lbw early.

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Mayank Agarwal (208) falls, turning Vaisakh to Vathsal Govind at short-leg. The fifth wicket stand between Mayank and Shreyas Gopal yielded 93 runs. In comes Sharath.

Tamil Nadu has got the first job done by bowling out Assam for 266 and has enforced the follow-on after taking a 274-run lead.

In the second session, TN took the new ball in the 81st over but Sarupam Purkayastha was ready for the challenge and liked the ball coming on nicely. He started by hitting Sai Kishore for consecutive boundaries through covers and a sweep to square-leg and flicking pacer Trilok Nag twice through fine-leg and brought up his 50.

At the other end, Akash Sengupta played a valiant role in giving company to Saurpam as they added 65 for the eighth wicket. Akash was finally bowled by Sai Kishore. Mukhtar Hussain followed soon trying to hit Ajith Ram and was caught at mid-on. Skipper Sai Kishore then had Sarupam bowled with an arm ball to close the innings.

Early Tea has been taken and the TN bowlers have 20 minutes to rest and rejuvenate before they go for the kill in the second innings.

Rohit Rayudu and Chandan Sahini in the space of two overs and Hyderabad now on the backfoot. It still needs 26 runs to avoid an innings defeat.

TN skipper Sai Kishore cleans up the well-set Sarupam Purkayastha for 74 off 161 as Assam’s resistance flags. Tamil Nadu takes a massive 274-run lead.

Mayank Markande gets his first wicket as Avesh Khan is bowled for 1. Madhya Pradesh 149 runs adrift as Punjab eyes an innings-victory.

Ricky Bhui falls for a seven-ball duck!

Will Tamil Nadu enforce the follow-on?

Mayank Agarwal reaches 200 in style, square cutting Nidheesh for a boundary. He moved from 185 to 203 in six balls. He started by lofting Nidheesh over long on for a six which was followed by a glide to third-man for a couple. He hit consecutive boundaries to reach the magical figure. In between Shreyas Gopal gets a life on 22 wicketkeeper Rahul misses a stumping off Vaisakh.

Puneet Datey is the seventh man to fall as he is castled by Siddharth Kaul. Punjab just three wickets away from a resounding innings-victory and MP still needs 156 runs to make Punjab bat again.

Captain R. Sai Kishore with a much-needed breakthrough for the host team as he clean bowls Akash Sengupta. Assam trails by 282 runs as Sai Kishore gets his second wicket.

Ishan Porel removes Bishnoi and Ankit Kumar in the same over after Haryana got a 129-run opening partnership. Haryana still 127 runs behind.

Abhishek Reddy falls soon after his opening partner Gnaneshwar to hand Jaydev Unadkat his first wicket. Reddy goes for 33 off 39 as Ricky Bhui joins skipper Hanuma Vihari in the middle. Andhra leads by 232 runs.

Assam staging quite a fight here. Sarupam Purkayastha and Akash Sengupta have struck 57 runs for the eighth wicket. Assam though still trails by 290 runs.

“TN’s second new-ball ploy hasn’t worked and runs have come easily and quickly. Sarupam Purkayastha has gotten to his half-century. He has hit some nice shots, getting nine fours so far,” reports S. Dipak Ragav from Chepauk.

Hrithik Shokeen traps Mulani in front 30. The off-spinner got Mulani to play on the backfoot to a ball that skidded off the surface. Mumbai leads by 17 runs.

Ajinkya Rahane and Shams Mulani bring up their 50-run partnership off 104 runs as Mumbai slowly heals from the early damage. Mumbai leads by 11 runs.

Dharmandrasinh Jadeja strikes to remove opener Gnaneshwar.

Madhya Pradesh’s slide continues. Akshat Raghuwanshi and Saransh Jain depart to leave MP staring at an innings defeat. Arshdeep Singh gets four wickets. Himanshu Mantri, who had retired hurt, comes back to the bat in a bid to rescue his team.

Andhra has taken a lead of 225 runs and has just lost opener R Gnaneshwar. Abhishek Reddy is joined by skipper Hanuma Vihari who has opened his account with a boundary. Andhra is in a very good position and Vihari will look to make a statement with the bat against a strong Saurashtra side.

Madhya Pradesh is in a lot of trouble having lost half the side for just 27 runs on the board and trailing Punjab by 172 runs. Arshdeep Singh has picked his fourth wicket and is likely to register a five-wicket haul with Baltej Singh picking one.

Divij Mehra picks four wickets and Pranshu Vijayan takes one as Mumbai trails Delhi by 13 runs but has lost five wickets. Skipper Ajinkya Rahane and Shams Mulani are out in the middle.

Ajith Ram picks three wickets as Assam loses its seventh wicket and trails Tamil Nadu by 316 runs at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

Eknath, batting on 139, continues to extend’s Goa’s lead, which now swells to 264 runs. Lakshay Garg, at the other end, is lending good support.

Hyderabad in trouble after following-on. Hangargekar picks two in quick succession. Hyderabad still behind by 117 runs.

Madhya Pradesh in tatters. Arshdeep Singh picks his third wicket as he gets Yash Dubey. Baltej Singh then removes cleans up MP skipper Aditya Shrivastava for 1. MP still trails by 185 runs.

Mayank Agarwal (158*) and Shreyas Gopal, not out 2, have stemmed the flow of wickets after Jose and Pandey fell in quick succession. Still too early to decide who will take the first-innings lead. Karnataka 89 runs away but a couple of quick wickets and Kerala will be right back in the contest.

Despite taking a 178-run lead against Saurashtra, Andhra skipper Hanuma Vihari has opted to bat again instead of enforcing the follow-on. Gnaneshwar and Abhishek Reddy out in the middle.

Haryana off to a strong start in the second essay after a dismal show in the first. Yuvraj Singh batting on a 101-ball 54 while Bishnoi is unbeaten on 45 off 109. Haryana still trails by 150 runs

Tamil Nadu continued to edge ahead in the first session of day three with Assam 200/7 in reply to the former’s 540.

The pitch is now starting to decisively favour the bowlers with turn and uneven bounce, making it challenging for the batters. Only 80 runs were scored in 34 overs while Tamil Nadu got three wickets.

Sandeep Warrier was the beneficiary of a ball keeping low as he castled Assam skipper Gokul Sharma. Sai Kishore then had Abhishek Thakuri caught at slip. The TN skipper was impressive, beating the bat often and even had a few close lbw shouts go in the batter’s favour.

He has been able to extract bounce and turn while the other left-arm spinner S. Ajith Ram continues to impress. Siddharth Sarmah was the third wicket to fall in the day, a poor shot trying to hit Ajith out of the park and giving a catch to deep midwicket. A good delivery from Ajith bowling it a bit wide and pulling the length back as the batter had to reach for it.

With the new ball due in another one over, it will be interesting to see if TN opts to give another burst to its pacers considering they will be fresh after lunch or persist with the spinners.

Assam needs a miracle from this point on with Sarupan Purkayastha batting on 27. The visitors need to get to 390 or basically almost double their current tally to even avoid the follow-on.

Ajinkya Rahane and Shams Mulani ensure Mumbai doesn’t suffer further damage. Mumbai still trails by 30 runs. A captain’s knock from Rahane the need of the hour for Mumbai.

Andhra takes a sizeable 178-run lead as Saurashtra is bowled out for 237. Lalith Mohan takes five 71.

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Arshdeep Singh picks two wickets in one over and Madhya Pradesh is now staring at an innings defeat. Shubham Sharma and Harsh Gawali fall for ducks while Himanshu Mantri retires hurt for 4.

Twin strikes push Karnataka behind. Akshay Chandran breaks the third wicket stand. He forces Nikin Jose to edge to Shoun Roger in the slips for 54. Jalaj Saxena gets his first wicket as Manish Pandey is out for a duck, caught by Rohan Kunnummal at leg-slip. Mayank Agarwal moves to 150. Shreyas Gopal is the new batter.

Defending champion Madhya Pradesh bundled out for 244. Siddharth Kaul picks four for 55, while Baltej Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Markande pick two each. Punjab takes a 199-run lead. Punjab enforces the follow-on.

Prasad Pawar shoulder arms only to see his off-stump rattled by a Pranshu Vijayran delivery that angles in. Mumbai loses half its side.

Divij Mehra has ripped through Mumbai here. He gets Armaan Jaffer and Sarfaraz Khan off consecutive deliveries to leave Mumbai four down. Sarfaraz goes for a golden duck as he is done in by one that comes in sharply and disturbs the stumps. Mumbai still trails by 40 runs.

A stunning result. Vidarbha has bowled out Gujarat for just 54 and successfully defended 73 runs - the lowest total to be defended in the history of the Ranji Trophy.​

Another wicket for Divij Mehra! He gets rid of the dangerous Prithvi Shaw. Captain Ajinkya Rahane joins Armaan Jaffer. Trails by 43 runs.

Divij Mehra gets the wicket of Musheer Khan with an inswinging delivery which passes through the gap between bat and pad. Armaan Jaffer joins Prithvi Shaw. Trails by 56 runs.

Sai Kishore gets his first wicket of the innings. He gets the set batter Abhishek Thakuri who is caught by Baba Indrajith. Assam still trails by a massive 359 runs.

Two hundred up for Karnataka. Nikin Jose is playing with lot more freedom and moves to 39. Mayanak batting steadily with 125..

Gujarat’s run chase in shambles. Asked to chaase just 73 runs, the side has lost five wickets in the morning session. Sarvate has rocked Gujarat batting lineup with four wickets.

Tanmay Agarwal and Rahul Radesh start the second innings for Hyderabad. The deficit is 189 runs as Hyderabad would look to fare better in the follow-on innings.

Haryana has started strong after being asked to follow on. Bishnoi and Yuvraj have hit six fours between them and seen out the opening 15 overs rather comfortably. Trails by 210 runs.

Harsh Gawli’s time at the crease is ended Baltej Singh. He is dismissed for 53. Madhya Pradesh is 252 runs behind. The innings fell through despite three of the top four batters getting fifties. Can Punjab convert this into an outright win from here?

Mulani’s first ball of the day gets Pranshu. He goes for a big shot but gets caught at the long off boundary. An invaluable 37-run inning comes to an end. Delhi finishes with a 76 run advantage. As things stand, Delhi will take three points from the game. Prithvi Shaw will have to shoulder some responsibility for Mumbai here.

WICKET!!! Sandeep Warrier strikes. He removes Assam skipper Gokul Sharma. Fast and straight and the ball scooted low to remove the off-stump. Warrier pats the batter’s back, almost feeling sorry for the dismissal.

-S. Dipak Ragav

Looks a long day for Kerala as Mayank completes his hundred. Nikhin Jose is slowly getting into his groove.

-M.R. Praveen Chandran

Delhi loses another wicket. Harshit Rana goes for a flick but plays it early and too far from his body. Holes out to the fielder at mid-on. Tushar Deshpande has four wickets now.

Aarya Desai falls on just three runs. Gujarat needs another 56 to win. S. Desai and H. Merai are the batters in the middle.

Virat Singh is nearing a century. Saurabh Tiwary batting on 68 runs at the other end. The team’s lead is 43 runs at the moment and looks set to reach well into the three-figure mark.

Hyderabad loses two early wickets. Santhosh Goud is caught and bowled by T.R. Dhillon followed by Anikethreddy holing out to Kazi. Trails by 204 runs.

Tushar Desphande strikes for Mumbai. Divij Mehra edges one to Armaan Jaffer at gully and Delhi loses its first wicket after adding just nine runs on the morning. Lead at 32 runs.

Sheldon Jackson gone! Prithvi Raj Yarra gets him caught to keeper Ricky Bhui. Not the start Saurashtra would have wanted. Still 282 runs behind. Samarth Vyas is the new batter.

M.J. Suthar wraps the Chhattisgarh innings with his fourth wicket. Rajasthan takes a massive 199-run lead. Anikat Chaudhary too ends with four wickets. No Chhattisgarh batter managed to get past 50 runs. The highest individual score was 48 runs by Ajay Mandal.

Tanush Kotian bowls the first over of Day 3. Divij and Pranshu start with working the field and collecting three singles of the over. The lead is 26 runs.

Start of play delayed due to bad light.

Akash Kumar gets the first scalp for Meghalaya. Basukinath is caught by Rohit Shah. He falls for 22 runs with the team’s lead at 357. Sachin Kumar Singh is the new man in.

Three fours apiece for Babul Kumar and Basukinath as Bihar extends the lead to 351 runs.

A healthy start to the day for Bihar. The side has added 17 runs in 5 overs this morning to extend the lead to 339 runs.

Bihar continues its 2nd innings on Day 3. It has a 322-run lead over Meghalaya and is in the driver’s seat in this contest. Basukinath and Babul Kumar at the crease.

Assam 120/4 vs Tamil Nadu 540; Assam trails by 420 runs.

Karnataka 137/2 vs Kerala 342; Karnataka trails by 205 runs.

Delhi 316/7 vs Mumbai 293; Delhi leads by 23 runs.

Saurashtra 122/3 vs Andhra 415; Saurashtra trails by 293 runs.

Nagaland 186/5 vs Himachal Pradesh 346; Nagaland trails by 160 runs.

Uttar Pradesh 257/4 vs Odisha 226; Uttar Pradesh leads by 31 runs.

Baroda 101/3 & 86 vs Uttarakhand 199; Baroda trails by 12 runs.

Goa 281/5 vs Services 175; Goa leads by 106 runs.

Jharkhand 250/3 vs Pondicherry 231; Jharkhand leads by 19 runs.

Madhya Pradesh 150/6 vs Punjab 443; Madhya Pradesh trails by 293 runs.

Chandigarh 212/2 vs Railways 386; Chandigarh trails by 174 runs.

Jammu & Kashmir 241/3 vs Tripura

Gujarat 6/1 & 256 vs Vidarbha 74 & 254; Gujarat needs 67 runs to win

Hyderabad 176/5 vs Maharashtra 385; Hyderabad trails by 209 runs.

Chhattisgarh 198/9 vs Rajasthan 360; Chhattisgarh trails by 172 runs.

Haryana 163 vs Bengal 419; Bengal leads 256 runs.

Plate Semifinal: Sikkim 85/4 & 229 vs Manipur 166; Sikkim leads by 148 runs.

Plate Semifinal: Bihar 28/0 & 428 vs Meghalaya 134; Bihar leads by 322 runs.

Plate 5th Position Play-Off: Mizoram 332/6 vs Arunachal Pradesh 199; Mizoram leads by 133 runs.

When off-spinner Vaishak Chandran clean bowled Karnataka opener R.Samarth’s defence in the first over, the signs were ominous for the visitor. But skipper Mayank Agarwal’s classy unbeaten 87 put his side in control at the end of the second day’s play in the Ranji Trophy match against Kerala at the KCA-St.Xavier’s College ground on Wednesday.

Karnataka, in reply to Kerala’s first innings total of 342, recovered from the early loss of its opener to score 137 for two at stumps. Mayank looked comfortable against spinners and medium pacers. He resurrected the innings with Devdutt Padikkal (29), adding 89 runs for the second wicket, which wrested the initiative from Kerala.

-M.R. Praveen Chandran

Andhra batter Ashwin Hebbar’s maiden First Class century stalled Saurashtra’s progress on day two of their Ranji Trophy sixth-round clash at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot on Wednesday.

While Saurashtra skipper Jaydev Unadkat had hoped to restrict the opposition to 300 after the opening day, Andhra, fuelled by Ashwin’s 109 (198b, 12x4, 1x6), posted 415 in its first innings.

After adding 159, for the loss of five wickets, to its overnight total, Andhra crippled Saurashtra with early scalps before Sheldon Jackson (63*) and Arpit Vasavada (21*) led the home team to 122 for three at stumps.

-Lalith Kalidas

Pradosh Ranjan Paul (153, 212b, 16x4) and Vijay Shankar (112, 187b, 7x4, 1x6) are going through one of the best phases of their careers as they slammed their respective third centuries of the season on Wednesday.

Their tons powered Tamil Nadu to a mammoth 540 in the first innings against Assam on day two of the Ranji Trophy clash at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The home team then pressed home the advantage by reducing Assam to 120 for four at stumps.

-S. Dipak Ragav

With its backs to the wall, Delhi is providing its stiffest resistance so far this season. Much of day two of its Ranji Trophy contest against Mumbai at the Arun Jaitley Stadium was spent establishing a foundation for a first-innings lead.

A determined if dour partnership of 195 (343b) between Vaibhav Rawal (114, 195b, 16x4) and Himmat Singh (85, 167b, 7x4, 2x6) led Delhi to 316/7 and pushed Mumbai to the backfoot and needing a lot to do to redeem itself in the second half of the tussle.

-Abhishek Mukherjee

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