Ranji Trophy Highlights, Round 2: Tamil Nadu vs Delhi drawn; Gujarat pips Andhra by one wicket; Mumbai beats Maharashtra

Baroda beat Services by 65 runs

Gujarat beat Andhra by 1 wicket

Rajasthan beat Himachal Pradesh by 8 wickets

Mumbai beat Maharashtra by 9 wickets

Mizoram beat Arunachal Pradesh by 267 runs

Karnataka vs Kerala - Draw (first-innings unfinished)

UP vs Haryana - Draw (Haryana took first-innings lead)

Railways vs Jharkhand - Draw (Jharkhand took first-innings lead)

Vidarbha beat Pondicherry by 120 runs

Uttarakhand beat Hyderabad 78 runs

Delhi vs TN - Draw (TN took first-innings lead)

Saurashtra vs Chhattisgarh - Draw (first-innings unfinished)

Punjab vs Madhya Pradesh - Draw (Punjab took first-innings lead)

Bengal vs Bihar - Abandoned

Odisha vs J&K - Draw (Odisha took first-innings lead)

Chandigarh beat Assam by nine wickets

Tripura beat Meghalaya by an innings and 17 runs

Nagaland beat Manipur by 147 runs

Goa beat Sikkim by an innings and 53 runs. 

Delhi vs Tamil Nadu ends in a draw with the latter having taken the first innings lead.

Rain has stopped play at Saurashtra vs Chhattisgarh.

Delhi vs Tamil Nadu dragging on as last two overs left in the day, and two more wickets for TN to take to clinch the win. Navdeep Saini and Himanshu Chauhan at the crease.

Pranshu Vijayran goes back for a duck.

Delhi 180/8 (trails by 228 runs) vs Tamil Nadu

Gujarat beats Andhra by one wicket!

Uttarakhand beats Hyderabad by 78 runs.

Baroda beats Services 65 runs. 

Arzan Nagwaswalla flicks through mid wicket and comes back for a risky second. Has to put in a dive to get home safe but he does and levels the scores. 

An important scalp for Tamil Nadu as on-song Sanat Sangwan departs for 83.

Delhi 180/7 (trails by 228 runs) vs Tamil Nadu

Lalith sways just a bit in line and Nagwaswalla dispatches him through fine leg with a sweep. Gujarat five runs away now.

Vidarbha beat Pondicherry by 120 runs.

Siddharth Desai hands an inside edge to Abhishek Reddy at short leg. Gujarat eight down. Lalith has his seventh.

Jaymeet Patel chops a cut onto his stumps and Lalith Mohan reignites Andhra’s hopes of a win. GUJ 127/7, needs 17 to win.

Punjab needs four more wickets as MP bowler push. Opener Himanshu Mantri is playing a vital knock for his side. He has consumed 123 balls for his 25 runs. 

Sanat Sangwan has dug in for Delhi. 162 balls for his 72 as he looks to save a point for his side. Five more wickets for TN to claim an outright win. 

Both teams shake hand for a draw. Haryana takes three points courtesy of the first-innings lead. 

Railways is all out for 414 as Jharkhand begins its second innings in Day 4’s second session.

Jharkhand 14/0 (leads by 17 runs) vs Railways

Gujarat 61/5. Ravi Bishnoi is promoted to number six but he is run out off the first delivery, trying to sneak in a single through short fine leg. Andhra has a whiff here. Urvil Patel comes in next.

Pondicherry now needs 203 runs to win.

No stopping Pujara as he gets to his 150. But Saurashtra loses Arpit Vasavada for 73. The home team still trails by 236 runs. 

Nagaland beats Manipur by 148 runs.

Lalith castles Priyank Panchal and Gujarat slips to 18/2. Still 126 away from its second win of this Ranji Trophy.

First wicket for Andhra. Lalith Mohan’s delivery skids on and raps Rishi Dhawan leg before who errs by going on his backfoot. GUJ 11/1.

Bengal vs Bihar match abandoned. 

Baroda 477/6 declared & 134/1 declared vs Services 271 all out & 86/4

Mumbai beat Maharashtra by nine wickets

Gujarat 367 all-out vs Andhra 213 all-out & 297 all-out

Rajasthan beats Himachal Pradesh by eight wickets

Uttarakhand 325 all-out & 235 all-out vs Hyderabad 292 all-out & 78/2

Vidarbha 283 all-out & 98/8 vs Pondicherry 209 all-out

Punjab 277 all-out & 329/6 declared vs Madhya Pradesh 207 all-out & 37/3

Haryana 453 all-out & 9/0 vs UP 364 all-out

Chhattishgarh 578/7 declared vs Saurashtra 300/3

Tamil Nadu 674/6 declared vs Delhi 266 all-out & 101/2 (F/O)

Jharkhand 417 all-out vs Railways 367/5

Mizoram beat Arunachal Pradesh by 267 runs

J&K 270 all-out & 270/7 declared vs Odisha 272 all-out & 17/3

Chandigarh beat Assam by nine wickets

Goa beat Sikkim by an innings and 53 runs

Tripura beat Meghalaya by an innings and 17 runs

Nagaland 237 all-out & 306/5 declared vs Manipur 139 all-out & 226/5

Bengal vs Bihar - Match yet to start

Kerala vs Karnataka declared as a draw after first innings unfinished

Karnataka vs Kerala Day 4 is called off and it is a draw. Disappointing result for both teams. 

Odisha loses three early wickets in its chase against J&K. Odisha needs 254 runs in just two sessions to win this game. But it already has a first-innings lead and hence might look to play out the day to save three points. 

Skipper Manan Vohra brings up his half-century as Chandigarh beats Assam by nine wickets to register its first win of the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy season.

A streaky reprieve for Vijay. He defends a delivery from Bishnoi, but as the ball bounces on the ground it spin back towards the stumps, hits the wickets but does not manage to dislodge the bails. Bishnoi has a long inspection of the stumps after the over. AND 252/6, leading by 98.

After Punjab declared at 329/6, Madhya Pradesh now needs 400 runs to win and it has the rest of the day to do it. Can it?

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