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Ranji Trophy 2016-17, Day 2, Round 3, match results and highlights: Uttar Pradesh eye lead after posting huge total against Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu trails by 490 runs against Uttar Pradesh.

UP opener Samarth Singh scored 187 © Getty Images
UP opener Samarth Singh scored 187 © Getty Images

Day two of the third round of Ranji Trophy 2016-17 Group A match between Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Tamil Nadu (TN) was quite evenly poised with as runs were heavily scored along with plenty of wickets. Batting first, UP scored 207 with the loss of only one-wicket with opener Samarth Singh scoring century at the end of day one. UP resumed their batting on day two with Samarth and Umang Sharma at crease. Samarth missed his maiden First-Class double-ton by 13 runs as he got out at 187, while Umang misses his another half-century by four runs. Further, Sarfaraz Khan scored a quick 40, followed by skipper Eklavya Dwivedi’s 60-run knock. READ: Ranji Trophy 2016-17 Points Table & team standings

Mohammad Saif got out on the first ball he faced. After that, Kuldeep Yadav and Saurabh Kumar added 72 bonus runs for sixth wicket. Saurabh scored 51. In the end, Imtiaz remained unbeaten at 31 after UP were all out for 524. From TN’s bowling department, T Natarajan scalped four-wickets, while Aswin Crist, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh and Washington Sundar got one-wicket each. TN began their batting with on second day with their openers Washintong Sundar and Abhinav Mukund. Like in the first innings, Sundar got the first wicket for TN, he was also the first-wicket to be lost for his team at 10. Kaushik Gandhi hasn’t opened his account yet after facing 11 balls. So far, TN has made 34 with the loss of one wicket with Mukund at 18 not out and are trailing by 490 runs.

Brief Scores:

UP 524 (Samarth Singh 187, Eklavya Dwivedi 60, Tanmay Srivastava 53, Saurabh Kumar 51; T Natarajan 4 for 83) lead by 490 against TN 34 for 1 (Abhinav Mukund 18*; Saurabh Kumar 1 for 0)

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