Ranji Trophy 2024-25: Himachal Pradesh creates history as top-four batters score centuries

Shubham Arora (118), Prashant Chopra (171), Ankit Kalsi (205 not out) and Ekant Singh (101) scored centuries for Himachal.

FILE PHOTO: Himachal Pradesh batter Prashant Chopra. | Photo Credit: PTI

Himachal Pradesh registered only the second instance of the top-four batters scoring centuries in an innings in the Ranji Trophy during the match against Uttarakhand at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Saturday.

Shubham Arora (118), Prashant Chopra (171), Ankit Kalsi (205 not out) and Ekant Singh (101) scored centuries for Himachal.

This feat was earlier achieved by Goa, against Arunachal Pradesh in 2019, when Sumiran Amonkar (160), Vaibhav Govekar (160), Smit Patel (137 not out), and Amit Verma (122 not out) scored centuries. Goa declared at 589 for two.

Overall, this is only the 14th instance when the top-four batters have scored centuries in a First-Class match.

Top-four batters scoring centuries in First-Class match

Middlesex v Sussex at Lord’s - 1920

Middlesex v Hampshire at Southampton - 1923

Victoria v New South Wales at MCG - 1926/27

South Australia v Queensland at Adelaide - 1934/35

Indians vs Sussex at Hove - 1946

Australians vs Cambridge University at Cambridge - 1961

Kent vs Oxford University at Oxford - 1982

India vs Bangladesh at Mirpur - 2007

Somerset v Leicestershire at Taunton - 2007

Sussex v Derbyshire at Horsham - 2010

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at Karachi - 2019/20

Goa v Arunachal Pradesh at Porvor - 2019/20

Sri Lanka v Ireland at Galle - 2022/23

Himachal Pradesh v Uttarakhand at Dharamsala - 2024/25

(Stats by Mohandas Menon)