Published: Dec 04, 2015, 09:00 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 05:04 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the fourth and final day’s play of the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group B match between Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Baroda at the Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground in Greater Noida on Friday. UP reached a commanding score of 466 for the loss of seven wickets at the end of the third day’s play, with Umang Sharma (195 off 398 balls, 18 fours) and Praveen Kumar (83 off 81 balls, seven fours and six sixes) having forged an unbroken 129-run stand for the eighth wicket at stumps. Umang, who is just a hit away from his double-ton, helped turn the tide in favour of UP after the hosts lost wickets on a regular basis, getting reduced to 133 for five at one stage. FULL COVERAGE: Ranji Trophy 2015-16 here
Match ends in a draw. Uttar Pradesh gain three points due to their first innings lead, while Baroda have to settle for just one point.
Live Cricket Score: Baroda 207/2 | Overs 61 | BATSMEN: Aditya Waghmode 86(198), Deepak Hooda 57(52) | Deepak Hooda is batting well, he has gone out hammer and tongs. Aditya Waghmode on course for a fifty as well. Baroda have avoided the innings defeat and are set to avert the outright defeat as well.
Live Cricket Score: Baroda 163/2 | Overs 53 | BATSMEN: Aditya Waghmode 74(176), Deepak Hooda 25(29) | Hardik Pandya has been dismissed for a quick 13-ball 20, but it does not look like Baroda are going to pull off a win in this match. Still, stranger things have happened. OUT! Hardik Pandya 20(13) st Eklavya Dwivedi b Piyush Chawla
Live Cricket Score: Baroda 98/1 | Overs 40 | BATSMEN: Aditya Waghmode 54(134), Hardik Pandya 0(3) | Uttar Pradesh finally make a breakthrough, Saurabh Kumar dismisses Baroda opening batsman Kedar Devdhar who scored 41 in 104 balls. His wicket left Baroda at 97 for 1, trailing the hosts by 105 runs. OUT! Kedar Devdhar b Saurabh Kumar 41(104)
Live Cricket Score: Baroda 37/0 | Overs 18 | BATSMEN: Kedar Devdhar 15(53), Aditya Waghmode 20(55): From here, Baroda trail Uttar Pradeh by 166 runs with today being the final day. Seeing the batting line-up of Baroda, this game will most likely end in draw. And the first innings lead for Uttar Pradesh will give them 3 points, while Baroda will ahve to settle for just 1 point.
Live Cricket Score: Uttar Pradesh 524 | Overs 152.1 | BATSMEN: Kuldeep Yadav 16(21): Uttar Pradeah were bowled out for 524 in the early hours of the final day of Round 9. Majority of their runs have come from Umang Sharma’s bat who scored 215 from 423 deliveries. Excellent stuff from the young man. The other batsmen who performed well were Praveen Kumar and wicketkeeper-batsman Eklavya Dwivedi. On the other hand for Baroda, the wickets were shared between Irafan Pathan, Muanf Patel, Hardik Pandya, Yusuf Pathan, Bhargav Bhatt and Deepak Hooda. OUT! Saurabh Kumar c Aditya Waghmode b Deepak Jagbir Hooda 21(42)
Resuming at 134 for five, Uttar Pradesh rode on a sixth wicket partnership of 166 runs between overnight batsmen Sharma and Dwivedi and an unconquered 129-run stand between Sharma and Kumar to add 332 runs on Day Three. Irfan Pathan picked up the two wickets that fall today when he dismissed Dwivedi, who hit six boundaries and as many sixes, in the 106th over and Piyush Chawla (27) in the 112th over respectively.
Playing XI:
Uttar Pradesh: Almas Shaukat, Himanshu Asnora, Umang Sharma, Suresh Raina (c), AD Nath, Eklavya Dwivedi (wk), Piyus Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Saurabh Kumar, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ankit Rajpoot
Baroda: Kedar Devdhar, Aditya Waghmode, Ambati Rayudu (c), Hardik Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Pinal Shah (wk), Gagandeep Singh, Munaf Patel
