Ranji Trophy LIVE score, Day 4 Round 2: Mumbai beats Maharashtra by nine wickets; Pujara scores hundred vs Chhattisgarh

Pujara gets to his hundred with a four. 66th First-Class hundred for the Saurashtra batter. His knock has kept Saurashtra afloat. 

Nitish Kumar Reddy, on 6, gets a bat-pad towards silly point off Siddharth Desai but the fielder cannot hold on to the sharp chance. AND 226/5, leading by 72.

Two quick wickets in the morning and Delhi is asked to follow-on by Tamil Nadu as it hunts an outright win. 

And Tamil Nadu strikes immediately. First-innings centurion Yash Dhull is nabbed by Gurjapneet. 

Mumbai restarts chase vs Maharashtra. Mumbai openers Prithvi Shaw and Ayush Mhatre make a quick start on Day 4. 

Pujara and Sheldon Jackson begin the fourth day for Saurashtra. Huge task ahead for the home side if it is to overhaul Chhattisgarh’s first innings total of 578. 

SAU 180/2

Match to start at 10. 

As a youngster aiming to climb the ladder in the cut-throat world of Indian cricket, Yash Dhull, a former India U-19 World Cup-winning captain, would have long braced himself for ups and downs on the field.

But the 21-year-old batter from Delhi wouldn’t have seen the curveball that was thrown at him away from the field earlier this year when what seemed like a customary check-up by the medical team of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) at an emerging players’ camp detected a hole in his heart. 

Life has changed for Dhull, having had to undergo a minor heart surgery for the congenital condition. But evidence that he is doing absolutely fine came via his unbeaten century for Delhi in the second-round Ranji Trophy clash against Tamil Nadu on Sunday.

This century — his first in First-Class cricket since his recovery — marks a “new innings” in Dhull’s own words.

However, the 30-year-old has been unlucky in not getting the right breaks to take the next step. After years of toil, including his season-best 767 runs in 13 innings in last year’s Ranji Trophy, Indrajith has finally broken through into the India A squad for the tour to Australia starting on October 3. 

“I feel very happy and emotional as well. I have wanted this for a long time,” said Indrajith. “At the same time, I am also very focused. My ultimate goal is to play for India in Test cricket, which is what I have been working for since my junior days.”

Baroda 477/6 declared & 134/1 declared vs Services 271 all out & 3/0

Maharashtra 126 all-out & 388 all-out vs Mumbai 441 all-out & 13/0

Gujarat 367 all-out vs Andhra 213 all-out & 203/4 (F/O)

Rajasthan beats Himachal Pradesh by eight wickets

Uttarakhand 325 all-out & 189/5 vs Hyderabad 292 all-out

Vidarbha 283 all-out & 25/3 vs Pondicherry 209 all-out

Punjab 277 all-out & 265/3 vs Madhya Pradesh 207 all-out

Haryana 453 all-out vs UP 267/6

Chhattishgarh 578/7 declared vs Saurashtra 177/2

Tamil Nadu 674/6 declared vs Delhi 264/8

Jharkhand 417 all-out vs Railways 320/4

Mizoram 247 all-out & 404/2 declared vs Arunachal Pradesh 252 all-out & 77/3

J&K 270 all-out & 195/4 vs Odisha 272 all-out

Assam 266 all-out & 144/7 vs Chandigarh 374 all-out

Goa beat Sikkim by an innings and 53 runs

Tripura 377/8 declared vs Meghalaya 222 all out & 3/0

Nagaland 237 all-out & 306/5 declared vs Manipur 139 all-out & 96/2

Bengal vs Bihar - Match yet to start

Kerala 161/3 vs Karnataka