Published: Nov 17, 2015, 08:39 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 04:35 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day three of the Group B game of the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy between Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, live from Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. Day before yesterday, on day one, Tamil Nadu won the toss and decided to bowl first. Uttar Pradesh batted very well and by the end of day’s play were 277 for the loss of four wickets. Suresh Raina and Saurabh Kumar were at the crease batting on 52 and nine respectively. In his 52 -run knock Raina 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. Uttar Pradesh fans would not have asked for a better performance. However, on Day 2, Uttar Pradesh could manage only 348, as a spirited Tamil Nadu attack made a strong comeback in the match. Complete coverage of Ranji Trophy 2015-16.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: UP 75/1, 348 | Tamil Nadu 231 | Overs 20 | BATTING: Almas Shaukat 41(71), Suresh Raina 20(15): After 20 overs into the second innings, UP lead their opponents by 192 runs with nine wickets in hand and more than a day’s paly left in the match. Earlier in the day, UP bowled out the visitors for 231 runs in 88 overs where Vijay Shankar top scored for Tamil Nadu with his 92 runs in 188 balls. OUT! Himanshu Asnora c Malolan Rangarajan b Kaushik J 14(31)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Tamil Nadu 203/8 | UP 348 | Overs 79 | BATTING: Malolan Rangarajan 21(21), M Mohammed 0(11): Tamil Nadu resumed play at Day three with six wickets down. UP made early breakthroughs with the dismissals of Aswin Crist and Ramaswamy Prasanna. The wicket-takers for UP were Bhuveneshwar Kumar and Praveen Kumar. The last batsman to get dimsissied was Prasanna who scored 32 from 93 balls before giving a catch to Suresh Raina off Praveen’s bowling. OUT! Aswin Crist c Eklavya Dwivedi b Bhuvneshwar Kumar 1(15) OUT! Ramaswamy Prasanna c Suresh Raina b Praveen Kumar 32(93)
In reply, Tamil Nadu are 174 for 6 at stumps on Day two. They are struggling against a quality Uttar Pradesh attack. On Day three, they will have to come out fresh and with all guns blazing or else they are in danger of Uttar Pradesh taking this game away from them. The match will get interesting if Tamil Nadu too bat well in their first innings and end up somewhere near Tamil Nadu’s score.
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.
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
