Published: Oct 17, 2015, 08:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 02:51 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live cricket blog of the Group A match in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2015-16 between Delhi and Haryana. Day three starts with a shocker for Delhi as Ashish Hooda got skipper Gautam Gambhir leg-before-wicket and the next batsman Mohit Ahlawat also departs for a duck. Unmukt Chand continued from there on and scored his 50 but got out on 68. The innings was studded with 11 fours. Wickets kept falling regularly as Milind Kumar who had just taken the crease got dismissed by Harshal Patel. Nitish Rana played a mentionable 48 runs knock. Pradeep Sangwan contributed a quick 34 off 48. Delhi’ innings ended for 237 having played 73.4 overs as they took a lead of 42 runs. READ: Ranji Trophy 2015-16, full coverage here
Haryana’s innings started and opener Chaitanya Bishnoi made an early exit making just 3 runs. Before the end of the day’s play, Haryana lost another wicket in the like of Rahul Dewan who scored 15 runs. Haryana skipper Virender Sehwag is still in the crease with Himanshu Rana. While the first contributed 29 runs off his 55 balls, Rana has scored 12 runs as of yet. Sehwag has not been seen in his usual aggressive form of batting. Stopping the fall of wickets to build up a good partnership being the reason behind, the captain seems to have taken up his responsibilities truly to make his team come out victorious. Whereas Delhi captain Gambhir would look forward to rotate his bowling options to get few more breakthrough, Haryana would likely be trying to play against the challenges the changing pitch of Feroze Shah Kotla on day 3 produce.
Live cricket scores Delhi 69/0| Target 224 | Overs 17 | Batting: Unmukt Chand 48(53), Gautam Gambhir 18(51): Gautam Gambhir is batting patiently while on the other hand Unmukt Chand has upped the tempo. Chand is just two runs short of his fifty. He has struck eight boundaries and a six till now. Delhi is scoring at a quick pace too thanks to Chand. Delhi’s run rate is 4.06. Match is tilted in Delhi’s favour right now. Things will get arduous for Haryana if they don’t break this opening partnership. Right now, Delhi needs just 155 runs to win with all their wickets intact.
Live cricket scores Delhi 31/0| Target 224 | Overs 9 | Batting: Unmukt Chand 16(26), Gautam Gambhir 12(30): Delhi have started batting with Unmukt Chand and Gautam Gambhir opening their innings. Chand is batting on 16 and Gautam Gambhir 12. Both have struck three boundaries each. Haryana needs wickets with the new ball, already nine overs have passed and they have not been able to take a single wicket. Talking of Delhi, if this first wicket partnership continues to grow the job of the middle order batters will get easier. Parvinder Awana, Milind and Nitish Rana are Delhi’s middle order batsmen.
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 264/9 | Delhi 237 | Overs 93.4 | Batting: JJ Yadav 28(88): Haryana close their second innings on 264. Manan Sharma takes the last wicket AH Hooda. Delhi now need 224 runs to win. Match has become very interesting and any one can win this match from here on. Manan Sharma took six wickets in the third innings and since he also picked five wickets in the first innings he takes his tally to 11 wickets, brilliant bowling by him. Let’s see how Delhi openers respond. OUT! AH Hooda c&b Manan Sharma 3(5)
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 264/9 | Delhi 237 | Overs 93.2 | Batting: JJ Yadav 28(88), AH Hooda 3(4): Manan Sharma takes the wicket of HV Patel. Patel was not able to judge Sharma’s delivery and was not able to make contact with it and hence got out leg-before-wicket. Haryana have batted well in their second innings. Let’s see if their last two batters are able to take them to 300. OUT! HV Patel lbw Manan Sharma 10(14)
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 240/8 | Delhi 237 | Overs 86 | Batting: JJ Yadav 16(62): Haryana lose their eighth wicket SM Pahal. Pahal tried hard and showed good resistance but couldn’t carry on for long. He got out on 18. Haryana are leading by 198 runs now. JJ Yadav is batting on 16 at a strike rate of 25.81. Haryana will be hoping that their last two wickets fetch them 50 more runs at least. OUT! SM Pahal c Yogesh Nagar b Pradeep Sangwan 18(43)
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 222/7 | Delhi 237 | Overs 77 | Batting: JJ Yadav 10(36), SM Pahal 11(17): Both RM Dagar and SR Rana fail to reach their respective half centuries. NR Saini made 19 runs before getting out. All the three scalps were taken by Manan Sharma. Sharma has taken four wickets in this innings till now. He also took five wickets in the first innings. Hence, he now has nine wickets in this match. His economy of 2.10 and 2.40 in the first and second innings is also impressive. OUT! RM Dagar c Nitish Rana b Manan Sharma 37(84), SR Rana lbw Manan Sharma 46(115), NR Saini c Ahlawat b Manan Sharma 19(37)
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 180/4 | Delhi 237 | Overs 58 | Batting: RM Dagar 36(73), SR Rana 46(99): SR Rana is nearing his fifty. Haryana are leading by 138 runs now. NR Saini and HV Patel are yet to bat. RM Dagar, who is batting on 46 has struck five boundaries in his knock so far. Match can tilt either way as of now. RM Dagar and SR Rana is the last genuine batting pair at the crease currently.
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 136/4 | Delhi 237 | Overs 44 | Batting: RM Dagar 13(21), SR Rana 27(69): Virender Sehwag gets out just after scoring his fifty. He is caught by Delhi’s skipper Gautam Gambhir off Manan Sharma’s ball. Sehwag is again not able to convert his start into a big score. RM Dagar comes to the crease after Sehwag’s departure. He is batting on 13. SR Rana on the other hand is batting on 27. He has struck two gigantic sixes in his knock so far. OUT! Virender Sehwag c Gautam Gambhir b Manan Sharma 51(88)
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 120/3 | Delhi 237 | Overs 38 | Batting: Virender Sehwag 51(87), SR Rana 24(53): Virender Sehwag finally reaches his half century. He struck eight shots to the fence en route his fifty. Sehwag is batting with more discipline and patience in this innings. SR Rana is batting on the other end and is taking his time to get his eye in. He is mostly trying to give Sehwag strike and not taking undue risks.
Live cricket scores Haryana 195 & 90/3 | Delhi 237 | Overs 31 | Batting: Virender Sehwag 45(78), SR Rana 4(19): Haryana have lost their third wicket HJ Rana. Virender Sehwag is just five runs short of his half century. He has struck seven sweetly timed boundaries in his innings so far. Haryana are leading by 56 runs, they need a big one from Sehwag today. Sehwag needs to convert this start into a big hundred since he has added responsibility after the loss of one wicket today and Haryana having lost three wickets in total and have not even crossed hundred runs in their second innings till now. OUT! HJ Rana lbw Parvinder Awana 14(40)
Squads:
Delhi: Gautam Gambhir (c), Parvinder Awana, Milind Kumar, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Shorey, Unmukt Chand, Manan Sharma, Yogesh Nagar, Sumit Narwal, Vaibhav Rawal, Pradeep Sangwan, Pawan Suyal, Pulkit Narang, Sarang Rawat, Ishant Sharma.
Haryana: Virender Sehwag (c), Chaitanya Bishnoi, Sanjay Budhwar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Dagar, Rahul Dalal, Rahul Dewan, Ashish Hooda, Sanjay Pahal, Harshal Patel, Himanshu Rana, Sachin Rana, Nitin Saini (wk), Guntashveer Singh, Priyank Tehlan, Jayant Yadav.
