Published: Dec 01, 2015, 08:00 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 04:57 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s coverage of Day One of the Round 8 Group B match of Ranji Trophy 2015-16 between Tamil Nadu and Punjab at Dindigul. Punjab desperately need an outright win and get 6 points in order to progress to the next round. Even if they get 3 points with a first innings lead they can still qualify provided Uttar Pradesh does not beat Baroda with 6 points or Madhya Pradesh does not beat Andhra with a superior run rate. On the other hand, even an outright win will not guaruntee Tamil Nadu of a spot in the final eight. COMPLETE COVERAGE: Ranji Trophy 2015-16
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Punjab 36/1, 206 | Tamil Nadu 68 | Overs 10 | BATTING: Jiwanjot Singh 10(24), Rajwinder Golu 0(5): At stumps, the visitors lead Tamil Nadu by 174 runs with nine wickets to spare. Batting first, Punjab managed to put just 206 runs befoe Golu’s six wickets and support provided by the other bowlers helped Punjab bowl out Tamil Nadu for just 68 runs. Tamil Nadu’s Malolan Rangarajan was the lone wicket-taker for his side in the seocnd innings so far, who dismissed Punjab opener Pargat Singh for 19 runs in 31 balls. OUT! Pargat Singh c Abhinav Mukund b Malolan Rangarajan 19 (31)
READ: Tamil Nadu post 2nd lowest total in Ranji Trophy; Bowled out for 68 vs Punjab
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Punjab 24/0, 206 | Tamil Nadu 68 | Overs 4 | BATTING: Jiwanjot Singh 5(7), Pargat Singh 14(17): Punjab’s Rajwinder Golu bagged six wickets, while Harbhajan Singh had three to his name, as Punjab bowled out the hosts for 68, Tamil Nadu’s second lowest total in Ranji Trophy and their lowest total against these opponents. From here, Punjab lead by 162 runs with the stumps of Day 1 a couples of minutes away.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Tamil Nadu 29/6 | Punjab 206 | Overs 12 | BATTING: Vijay Shankar 7(20), Kousik J 5(9): Batting first, Punjab were bundled out for 206 in 57 overs, with Yuvraj Singh top scoring with 49 from 63 balls. In reply to that, Tamil nadu also have not had the greatest of starts. They have been losing wickets like pins, with just 29 runs on board, the hosts are already six-down. OUT! B Aparajith c Sarbjeet Ladda b Rajwinder Golu 8(15) OUT! Abhinav Mukund c Harbhajan Singh b Rajwinder Golu 1(9) OUT! Dinesh Karthik lbw Harbhajan Singh 3(4) OUT! Baba Indrajith c Mandeep Singh b Rajwinder Golu 1(8) OUT! R Prasanna c Mandeep Singh b Harbhajan Singh 2(6) OUT! R Sathish b Rajwinder Golu 0(1)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Punjab 73/4 | Overs 22 | BATTING: Yuvraj Singh 16(18), Mayank Siddana 1(6): Winning the toss, Punjab chose to bat. They did not have the best of starts, losing four early wickets. The first dismissal happened in the fourth over when Pargat Singh gave a catch to Rajagopal Sathish off Rahil Shah’s bowling. D T Chandrasekar bagged two wickets so far in the game, while the other wickets are shared between Malolan Rangarajan and Shah. OUT! Jiwanjot Singh LBW D T Chandrasekar 29(45) OUT! Pargat Singh c Rajagopal Sathish b Rahil Shah 0(7) OUT! Uday Kaul c Rajagopal Sathish b Malolan Rangarajan 13(32) OUT! Mandeep Singh b D T Chandrasekar 8(20)
Even if Tamil Nadu get 6 points with an outright win they will need to look at the other results before qualifying. For instance, even with 6 points they need Uttar Pradesh to not win outight as well as Gujarat not getting a single point. Thereby, if Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu are all tied on 24 points then it will go down to quotient and run rate. On the other hand, if Tamil Nadu manage 3 points then they have to hope Uttar Pradesh do not get any more than 1 point, while also having to maintain a lead over Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in terms of quotient.
Teams:
Tamil Nadu: Abhinav Mukund, Aparajith Baba, Dinesh Karthik, Prasanna Ramaswamy, Malolan Rangarajan, Aswin Crist, Indrajith Baba, Chandrasekar Thiyagarajan, Kaushik Nathan, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Vignesh Lakshminarayanan, Kaushik Mohan, Mohammed Saleem, Aushik Srinivas, Rajagopal Sathish, Rahil Shah, Sunil Samkutty, Sushil Shankar, Vijay Shankar, Antony Wenscslaus, Kousik Jagatheesan, Bharath Shankar, Vignesh Moorthy, Suresh Selvam, Natarajan Narayan, Sai Srinivaasan, Washinton Sundar, Abhishek Tanwar, Ashwin Murugan, Francis Rokins, Chaturved Rajan, Rohit Ravikumar, Mohan Sellappan, Sakthi Pichaiyan, Shahrukh Khan.
Punjab: Harbhajan Singh, Jiwanjot Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Mandeep Singh, Gurkeerat Singh, Manan Vohra, Deepak Bansal, Gitansh Khera, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Himanshu Chawla, Karan Goel, Maninder Singh, Pargat Chatha, Rajwinder Singh, Sarbjeet Singh, Taruwar Kohli, Siddharth Kaul, Aarush Sabharwal, Karan Kaila, Shubek Gill, Uday Kaul, Barinder Singh Sran, Gaurav Narinder Puri, Mayank Siddana, Varun Khanna, Ravi Inder Singh.
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