RAI 154/3 | Live cricket score, Uttar Pradesh vs Railways, Ranji Trophy 2015-16, Group B match, Day 3 at Ghaziabad: At stumps, visitors lead by 265 runs

Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the third day of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group B fixture between Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Railways at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Ghaziabad on Saturday. UP ended the second day after reaching a score of 169 for 2, with Tanmay Srivastava and Mohammad Saif batting on 75 and 5 respectively. It was another day of the bat dominating the proceedings, with Ranjit Mali taking both the wickets for a price of 61 runs. The innings was given a strong impetus between Srivastava and Almas Shaukat, who was dismissed after scoring 76 off 188 deliveries. Himanshu Asnora was the next to depart, falling for a three-ball duck. Read all Ranji Trophy 2015-16 team previews here

Live cricket scores Railways 154/3, 375 | 44 | Batting: Faiz Ahmad 62(85), Arindam Ghosh 4(28): At stumps, Railways lead Uttar Pradesh by 265 runs with seven wickets in hand and one day to go in the match. Praveen Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav and Ankit Rajpoot were the wicket-takers for UP in the second innings.

Live cricket scores Railways 101/1, 375 | 28 | Batting: Faiz Ahmad 28(47), A R B Singh 52(83): From here, Railways lead by 209 runs with nine wickets in hand. Kuldeep Yadav who bagged three scalps in the first innings once again made an early breakthrough by removing the opener Saurabh in the 13th over for 15 runs from 34 balls. Faiz who was the second highest scorer for the visitors now has joined Singh on the crease. With a couple of hours to go, the duo will try to remain unbeaten, while the hosts will look for another wicket or two before heading into the final day tomorrow. OUT! Saurabh st Eklavya Dwivedi b Kuldeep Yadav 15(34)

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Live cricket scores Railways 4/0, 375 | 2 | Batting: Saurabh 0(6), A R B Singh 4(6): Ranjeet Mali’s five-wicket haul helped the vistors restrict the hosts to 264 and take a first innings lead of 111 runs. It will be very important for Singh who scored a century in their first innings to once again play that knock to ensure Railways are in commanding position with more than a day left in the game.

Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 256/8  | Overs 98.3 | Batting: Piyush Chawla 43(69): At Lunch, the hosts lead Railways by 119 runs with Chawla on strike. Kuldeep Yadav was the last man to get out and with his wicket, the lunch was called out.  K K Upadhyay was the wicket-taker, who has two victims in the match so far. Also, it was him who denied Tanmay a second consecutive century in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2015-16. OUT! Tanmay Srivastava c Prashant Awasthi b K K Upadhyay 93(267) OUT! Praveen Kumar LBW Anureet Singh 8(14) OUT! Kuldeep Yadav c Mahesh Rawat b K K Upadhyay 0(8)

Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 233/5  | Overs 91 | Batting: Tanmay Srivastava 93(265), Piyush Chawla 29(46): From here, the hosts trail Railways by 142 runs with opener Tanmay still on crease and on way to his 11th First-Class ton. He has strated the 2015-16 season well as this will be his second consecutive century. The other opener Almas Shaukat contributed decently with 188-ball 76 before falling to Ranjeet Mali’s bowling, who has three wickets so far in the game. OUT! Eklavya Dwivedi LBW Anureet Singh 2(5) OUT! S N Khan c Arindam Ghosh b Anureet Singh 0(4)

Earlier in the game, Railways finished on an impressive score of 375 on what appears to be a good surface for batsmen. Ashish Singh led the way among the Railways batsmen with a fine century (101 off 188 deliveries), which included 11 fours and two sixes. He faced ample support from the rest of the Railways top-order, with Faiz Ahmed (74), Arindam Ghosh (50), Saurabh Wakaskar (43) and Prashant Awasthi (42) making vital contributions towards the score. Kuldeep Yadav topped the bowling charts for UP with figures of 3 for 64.

Brief Scores:

Railways 375 (Ashish Singh 101, Faiz Ahmed 74; Kuldeep Yadav 3-64) lead Uttar Pradesh 169 for 2 (Tanmay Srivastava 75*, Almas Shaukat 76; Ranjit Mali 2 for 61) by 206 runs.

Squads:

Uttar Pradesh: Praveen Kumar (c), Piyush Chawla, Sarfaraz Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshdeep Nath, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Saif, Ankit Rajpoot, Umang Sharma, Eklavya Dwivedi, Himanshu Asnora, Israr Azim, Saurabh Kumar, Tanmay Srivastava, Deependra Pandey, Almas Shaukat.

Railways: Mahesh Rawat (c&wk), Saurabh Wakaskar,  Arindam Ghosh, Ranjeet Mali, Karn Sharma, Prashant Awasthi, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Arnab Arun Nandi, Rohan Bhosale, Anureet Singh, Hitesh Kadam