Ranji Trophy LIVE score, Day 3, Round 3: Rinku Singh batting for UP against Punjab; Harshit Rana scores fifty for Delhi vs Assam

Railways strikes again. Vishvarajsinh Jadeja is the next to fall. Ayan B Chaudhari gets his second to reduce Saurashtra to 17/2. 

A half century for Harshit Rana. After the five wickets on day two, he is now contributing with the bat. Four fours and two sixes on the way.

Saurashtra loses opener Harvik Desai early in the chase. Ayan B Chaudhari claiming the wicket. The home team needs 164 runs to win. 

Ajith Ram giving strong support to N. Jagadeesan as the pair add 52 runs in the first hour on day three. Their partnership is 63 runs now.

Ishan Porel’s five-wicket haul has thrown Kerala’s first innings into disarray. Akshay Chandran’s 31 has been the highest score by any batter so far. 

Railways is bundled out for 141 runs as Dharmendrasinh Jadeja picks up six wickets. Saurashtra would back itself to chase this total down and get its first win of the season.

The seventh-wicket partnership has added 64 runs for Rajasthan. Gujarat, with two wins in two, still has 128 runs in its kitty to secure the remaining four wickets and establish an early advantage.

Baroda skipper Krunal Pandya brings up his hundred against Odisha with a four. The home team has already built a massive lead of 191 runs and will be gunning for an outright win. 

Mandar Bhandari and Mukesh Choudhary take Maharashtra to a first-innings advantage. The former also brings up his fiftyin 69 deliveries with a boundary.

The last season’s runner up has 69 runs to pick three wickets and secure a first innings lead. Akshay Wakhare has picked three wickets and has been the pick of the bowlers.

Maharashtra gains the first-innings lead against Meghalaya. Wicket-keeper batter MS Bhandari is still out in the middle and batting on 46. The home team will look to increase its advantage. 

Harshit Rana and Sumit Mathur’s seventh-wicket partnership is now worth 52 runs. Still more needed from this duo to further reduce the deficit, currently at 106 runs.

Centurion Madhav Kaushik (130*) marches on towards a big score in the company of Rinku Singh. The lead is already around 100 and UP would want bury its opponent under a massive first-innings lead today.

Night watchman Ajith Ram picks an early boundary on the third day. Let’s see how long he can hang around with N. Jagadeesan at the other end. Tamil Nadu conceded a mammoth 500 in the first innings.

Parvez Sultan is batting on 2 off 54 deliveries. He was sent in as night watchman on day two and continues to frustrate Mumbai. Jiwanjot Singh nearing in on a fifty.

Mumbai will be hunting for early wickets on Day 3 to seal a decisive result against Tripura. 

Baroda vs Odisha - ODI 193 all-out | BAR 354/6 

J&K vs Services - J&K won by an innings and 25 runs 

Maharashtra vs Meghalaya - MEG 276 all-out | MAH 263/5

Rajasthan vs Gujarat - GUJ 335 all-out | RAJ 180/5 

Hyderabad vs Pondicherry - HYD 536/8d | PND 24/2 

Uttarakhand vs Vidarbha - VID 326 all-out | UTT 242/7 

Madhya Pradesh vs Haryana - MP 308 all-out | HAR 185/3 

Punjab vs UP - PUN 210 all-out | UP 293/3 

Delhi vs Assam - ASM 330 all-out | DEL 214/6 

TN vs Chhattisgarh - CHG 500 all-out | TN 23/1 

Saurashtra vs Railways - RLY 234 all-out & 122/7 | SAU 196 all-out 

Arunachal Pradesh vs Sikkim - SKM 424 all-out | ARU 244/3 

Goa vs Nagaland - GOA 179 all-out & 177/5 | NAG 147 all-out 

Manipur vs Mizoram - MIZ 536 all-out | MNP 105/4 

Andhra vs Himachal Pradesh - AND 344 all-out | HP 198/4 

Bihar vs Karnataka - BIH 143 all-out | KAR 16/0 

Jharkhand vs Chandigarh - JHA 202 all-out | CHG 34/0 

Tripura vs Mumbai - MUM 450 all-out | TRI 60/1 

Bengal vs Kerala - KER 51/4

Welcome to Sportstar’s Live Blog of the third round of the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy season.