Saurashtra were well placed to win their Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A match against hosts Railways as 18 more wickets tumbled on the second day on a cart track of a pitch at the Karnail Singh Stadium here Thursday.
Published: Dec 22, 2011, 11:32 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 22, 2011, 11:32 PM (IST)
Mumbai captain Wasim Jaffer went past Amol Muzmdar’s record of 8237 runs in the Ranji Trophy on Thursday © AFP
New Delhi: Dec 22, 2011
Saurashtra were well placed to win their Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A match against hosts Railways as 18 more wickets tumbled on the second day on a cart track of a pitch at the Karnail Singh Stadium here Thursday.
At stumps, Railways at 97 for six, still needed 150 runs to win the match with only four wickets intact. The game could have ended today itself but for a gritty unfinished 45-run seventh-wicket partnership between Marripuri Suresh (27) and Ashish Yadav (30). Kamlesh Makvana claimed five of the six wickets to fall.
Railways, resuming their first innings at 71 for eight in reply to Saurashtra’s 175, were bowled out for 81. Then Saurashtra were dismissed for 152 in their second innings with only Cheteshwar Pujara (32) and Ravindra Jadeja (42) coping with the tricks of the track.
Former India player Mohammad Kaif, on the comeback trail, scored a defiant unbeaten century against Karnataka as Uttar Pradesh ended the second day at 276 for six in reply to Karnataka’s 314 in the first innings. Bhuvanesh Kumar, who took five wickets, figured in a 104-run unfinished seventh-wicket stand with Kaif, himself scoring 52.
Stuart Binny missed his hundred by six runs, adding eight to his overnight score as Karnataka lost their last three wickets for ten runs to reach 314.
Another India discard Dinesh Karthik hit 156 as Tamil Nadu reached 486 against Madhya Pradesh who were 50 for three at stumps.
In the Plate Division semi-final, both Vidarbha and Mahrashtra crawled to safe scores thanks to their lower-order batsmen contributing usefully.
At Nagpur, Vidarbha batted the whole of second day to take their first-innings score to 467 for eight, while Maharashtra were dismissed for 415 and then grabbed three quick Himachal wickets for 68 by stumps. For Vidarbha, Amol Jungade (92) and Akshar Wakhare (50) were involved in an unbroken 125-run stand for the ninth wicket.(IANS)
Elite Division:
GROUP A:
At Shimoga: Karnataka 314 in 95 overs (K B Pawan 40, Bharat Chipli 51, Stuart Binny 94, Muralidharan Gautam 25, Sunil Raju 25, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 5/84, Imtiaz Ahmed 3/73) Uttar Pradesh 276 for 6 in 83 overs (Mukul Dagar 37, Mohammad Kaif batting 101, Parvinder Singh 46, Bhuvanesh Kumar batting 52).
At Mumbai: Punjab 226 in 77.2 overs (Mayank Sidhana 34, Bipul Sharma 68, Balwinder Sandhu 5/66, Kshemal Waingankar 3/80) Mumbai 308 for 5 in 97 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 46, Praful Waghela 28,Wasim Jaffer 82, Suryakumar Yadav 64, Ramesh Powar batting 30, Harmeet Singh 2/41).
At New Delhi: Saurashtra 175 in 66.2 overs and 152 in 62.3 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 32, Ravindra Jadeja 45, Ashish Yadav 2/22, Krishnakant Upadhyay 2/18, Arlen Konwar 2/39, Nileshkumar Chauhan 2/15) Railways 81 in 24.5 overs (Mahesh Rawat 33, Jaydev Unadkat 2/5, Ravindra Jadeja 6/23, Kamlesh Makwana 2/32) and 97 for 6 in 34 overs (Marripuri Suresh batting 27, Ashish Yada batting 30, Kamlesh Makvana 5/30).
At Jaipur: Rajasthan 423 in 155.4 overs (Vineet Saxena 74, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 64, Robin Bisht 127 not out Rashmi Parida 30, Puneet Yadav 63, Basant Mohanty 4/104, Biplab Samantray 2/76, Alok Mangaraj 2/74 Orissa 76 for 6 in 23 overs (Pankaj Singh 2/24, Sumit Mathur 3/8).
GROUP B:
At Baroda: Baroda 284 in 88 overs Bengal 264 for 4 in 87 overs (Shreevats Goswami 38, Sourav Ganguly retd hurt 60, Anustup Mazumdar batting 71, Lakshmi Ratan Shukla batting 37, Gagandeep Singh 3/73).
At Surat: Haryana 207 in 74.2 overs and 61 for no loss in 22 overs (Nitin Saini batting 32, Rahul Dewan batting 28) (Gujarat 228 in 78.3 overs (Priyank Patel 31, Bhargav Merai 29, Pratharesh Parmar 35, Manprit Juneja 42, Ashish Hooda 2/32, Mohit Sharma 2/52, Amit Mishra 3/52, Jayant Yadav 3/47).
At Chennai: Tamil Nadu 486 in 153.1 overs (Murali Vijay 83, Kaushik Gandhi 80, Subramanian Badrinath 32, Dinesh Karthik 156, Yo Mahesh 34, Malolan Rangarajan 28, Lakshmipathy Balaji 28, Ishwar Pandey 4/123, Amarjeet Singh 3/107, Ankit Sharma 2/73) Madhya Pradesh 50 for 3 in 26 overs.
Plate Division (semi-finals):
At Nagpur: Vidarbha 467 for 8 in 180 overs (Shiv Sundar Das 64, Shalabh Srivastava 83, Hemang Badani 40, Ranjit Paradkar 75, Amol Jungade batting 92, Akshar Wakhare batting 50, Anwar Ahmed 2/66, Pagadala Naidu 2/91, Syed Quadri 3/79).
At Pune: Maharashtra 415 in 161.3 overs (Harshad Khadwale 25, Sangram Dilip Atitkar 40, Nikhil Paradkar 80, Ankit Bawane 137, Rohit Motwani 59, Vikramjeet Malik 2/55, Vishal Bhatia 2/76, Abhinav Bali 2/59) Himachal Pradesh 68 for 3 in 16.1 overs (Paras Dogra batting 35) vs Himachal Pradesh.
