Published: Nov 15, 2015, 08:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 04:21 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day 1 of the Group B game of the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy between Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, live from Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. Uttar Pradesh are currently at fifth position (one place down to Tamil Nadu) in Group B. Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have 16 and 14 points respectively. Both teams have played five matches and won two of those. Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu also drew one, lost one and one game fetched no result due to bad weather. This match is going to be interesting because both the teams have played similar cricket in the tournament. Complete coverage of Ranji Trophy 2015-16
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 277/4 Overs 87| BATTING: Suresh Raina 52(56), Saurabh Kumar 9(11): Umang Sharma is sent to the dugout after a well played 73. He struck 10 fours in his knock. Suresh Raina has cracked a quickfire half century. In his 52 -run knock he slammed eight beautifully time fours. The left-hander took just 56 balls and blasted those many runs at an amazing strike rate of 92.86. He was batting along with Saurabh Kumar when the umpire declared end of day’s play. Tamil Nadu will have to come out fresh and with all guns blazing tomorrow or else they are in danger that Uttar Pradesh will take this match away from them. The four wickets that fell were taken by four bowlers— Aswin Crist, Kaushik J, M Mohammed and Vijay Shankar. We’ll see you on Monday for day two live coverage of Ranji Trophy 2015-16 round six match between Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The match will get interesting if Tamil Nadu bat well too. Ciao! OUT! Umang Sharma c Dinesh Karthik b Kaushik J 73(148)
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 225/2 Overs 77| BATTING: Suresh Raina 30(33), Umang Sharma 71(143): Almas Shaukat is out for a well-fought 88, missed his century by just 12 runs. Suresh Raina has arrived at the crease. He is batting on 30 having faced just 33 balls having slammed five boundaries. Uttar Pradesh requires a big contribution from his end. Being also their skipper he has added responsibility. Umang Sharma is batting at the other end on 71, he should play the sheet anchor’s role. Piyush Chawla and Eklavya Dwivedi are yet to bat. OUT! Almas Shaukat c Dinesh Karthik b Vijay Shankar 88(203)
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 176/1 Overs 65| BATTING: Almas Shaukat 88(202), Umang Sharma 52(104): Alamas Shaukat is batting very well. He is just 12 short of his hundred while Umang Sharma has reached his fifty. Shaukat has carted 11 fours and a shot for maximum while Umang has struck 11 boundaries. Piyush Chawla and Eklavya Dwivedi are next in the batting order. Aswin Crist is the lone wicket-taker for Tamil Nadu till now.
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 111/1 Overs 42| BATTING: Almas Shaukat 50(122), Umang Sharma 25(45): Almas Shaukat reaches his half century off 122 balls. Nice job by him, Umang Sharma is batting on 25 at the other end. Almas Shaukat has struck six boundaries and a six so far. Uttar Pradesh are looking solid to go beyond 300 if they continue to bat the way they are at the moment.
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 77/1 Overs 30| BATTING: Almas Shaukat 41(89), Umang Sharma 6(5): Finally, Tamil Nadu are able to draw first blood. Himanshu Asnora is sent back to the dugout on 30. Himanshu slammed four boundaries in his knock. Almas Shaukat, who is at the crease is nearing his fifty. He has hit six shots to the fence so far. He is batting along with Umang Sharma who is new to the crease. OUT! Himanshu Asnora c Dinesh Karthik b Aswin Crist 30(87)
Live cricket scores Uttar Pradesh 33/0 Overs 16| BATTING: Almas Shaukat 17 (45), Himanshu Asnora 14 (53): Uttar Pradesh have made a steady start so in this Group B match against Tamil Nadu. After being asked to bat first, Almas Shaukat and Himanshu Asnora have added 33 runs for the first wicket without taking any unwanted risk. Tamil Nadu have so far used four bowlers but without any success.
Toss: Tamil Nadu have elected to field against Uttar Pradesh in their Ranji Trophy 2015-16 match at Kanpur on Sunday.
Playing XI:
Uttar Pradesh: Piyush Chawla, Eklavya Dwivedi (wk), Akshdeep Nath, Ankit Rajpoot, Praveen Kumar, Umang Sharma, Suresh Raina (C), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Almas Shaukat, Himanshu Asnora, Saurabh Kumar
Tamil Nadu: Abhinav Mukund (C), B Aparajith, Dinesh Karthik (wk), R Prasanna, Malolan Rangarajan, Aswin Crist, B Indrajith, DT Chandrasekar, Kaushik J, M Mohammed, Vijay Shankar
However, Tamil Nadu have a slight edge owing to a better result coming for them in their last match. In their previous match against Andhra, they bowled out the opposition for a paltry 203. The second and third days were washed out due to rains and two mandatory innings to fetch a result were not completed by the end of the fourth and final day; hence the match ended in no result. On the other hand if we look at Uttar Pradesh, they conceded the first innings lead to Mumbai in their previous match and hence Mumbai received three points while UP had to settle for one. The players to watch out for in this encounter will be Abhinav Mukund and Dinesh Karthik for Tamil Nadu. Talking of Uttar Pradesh, their key players will be Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Squads:
Uttar Pradesh: Praveen Kumar (c), Piyush Chawla, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sarfaraz Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Tanmay Srivastava, Mohammad Saif, Deependra Pandey, Ankit Rajpoot, Saurabh Kumar, Umang Sharma, Eklavya Dwivedi, Akshdeep Nath, Almas Shaukat, Amit Mishra, Himanshu Asnora, Israr Azim.
Tamil Nadu: Abhinav Mukund (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Baba Aparajith, Umashankar Sushil, Bharath Shankar, Kaushik Gandhi, M Mohammed, Malolan Rangarajan, Vijay Shankar, Baba Indrajith, Jagannathan Kaushik, DT Chandrasekar, Ramaswamy Prasanna, Rahil Shah, Lakshminarayanan Vignesh.
