New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Puneet Bisht’s unbeaten century and a six-wicket haul by pacer Ashish Nehra brought Delhi back into the match against Baroda while Suryakumar Yadav struck a double-hundred to put Mumbai in a commanding position against Orissa on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division matches Wednesday.
It was a topsy-turvy day at Ferozeshah Kotla here with both Baroda and Delhi having their moments. Baroda resumed the day at a promising 273 for three but collapsed to 318 all out in the first innings courtesy Nehra (6/102), who ran through their middle-order. The left-arm pacer silenced his critics after having an ordinary opening day when he conceded 84 runs in 18 overs.
The hosts were struggling at 74/5 bur a 136-run stand between wicket-keeper Bisht and skipper Mithun Manhas resurrected the innings to 250 for six at stumps. Bisht smashed 114 off 134 balls while Manhas contributed with 49. Baroda’s Irfan Pathan continued his good form with the bowl in the current season, picking up five for 82. He is currently the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 19 scalps in four matches.
At the DRIEMS Ground in Cuttack, Yadav’s scored his runs at blistering pace as his 200 came off 232 balls and it propelled Mumbai to 529 for eight declared in the first innings. The visitors had Orissa on the mat at 57/7 at stumps. Medium pacer Dhawal Kulkarni took four wickets while Zaheer Khan making a comeback bowled six overs and picked up a wicket for 20 runs.
K.B. Pawan was another centurion of the day as he made 118 in Karnataka’s 369 for four against Saurashtra at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Brief scores:
Elite Division
Group A:
At Cuttack: Mumbai 529/8 decl in 150 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 127, Suryakumar Yadav 200; Basant Mohanty 2/122, Santosh Jena 2/109, Deepak Behera 2/88) vs Orissa 57/7 in 29 overs (Niranjan Behera 26; Dhawal Kulkarni 4/17, Aavishkar Salvi 2/5)
At Mohali: Punjab 366 all out in 146.1 overs (Uday Kaul 131, Mandeep Singh 73; Krishnakant Upadhyay 7/76, Jai Prakash Yadav 2/69) vs Railways 89/5 in 30 overs (V Cheluvaraj 35, Sanjay Bangar batting 23; Manpreet Gony 4/24)
At Jaipur: Uttar Pradesh 492 all out in 134.2 overs (Parvinder Singh 91, Piyush Chawla 88; Deepak Chahar 4/144, Vivek Yadav 5/121) vs Rajasthan 119/2 in 43 overs (Robin Bist batting 44, Rashmi Parida batting 43; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/30)
At Bangalore: Karnataka 369/4 in 105 overs (Robin Uthappa 70, KB Pawan 118; Siddharth Trivedi 2/65) vs Saurashtra
Group B:
At Delhi: Baroda 318 all out in 102.1 overs (Rakesh Solanki 113, Pinal Shah 93; Ashish Nehra 6/102, Parvinder Awana 2/86) vs Delhi 250/6 in 60 overs (Puneet Bisht batting 114, Mithun Manhas 49; Irfan Pathan 5/82)
At Rohtak: Haryana 358 all out in 126.2 overs (Rahul Dewan 115, Sunny Singh 111; Ashok Dinda 5/98 Iresh Saxena 3/78) vs Bengal 113/2 in 51 overs (Arindam Das batting 70; Amit Mishra 2/16)
At Indore: Gujarat 130 all out and 45/1 in 11 overs (Niraj Patel batting 22, Priyank Krit Panchal batting 20; Anand Ranjan 1/22) vs Madhya Pradesh 205 all out in 64.3 overs, TP Sudhindra 51, Devendra Bundela 50; Mehul Patel 5/54, Ishwar Chaudhary 4/84)
Plate Division
Group A:
At Dharmasala: Himachal Pradesh 364 all out in 115.4 overs (Amit Kumar not out 119, Rishi Dhawan 54; Suraj Yadav 4/89, Nishan Singh 3/92, Irfan Khan 2/87) vs Services 134/6 in 54 overs (Jasvir Singh 29, Soumyaranjan Swain 26; Rishi Dhawan 3/53, Vikramjeet Singh 2/22)
At Kochi: Kerala 130 all out in 76.4 overs (Sachin Baby 36, Raiphi Gomez not out 34; Tekkami Atchuta Rao 6/43, Shankara Rao 2/10) and 81/7 (Rohan Prem 14; Syed Sahabuddin 3/18, Shankara Rao 3/14) vs Andhra 74 all out in 36.1 overs (Duvvarapu Shivkumar 22; Sony Cheruvathur 6/25, Prasanth Parameswaran 2/13)
At Agartala: Tripura 281 all out in 98.5 overs (Rajib Saha 77, Udit Patel 56; Sandeep Singh 6/79) vs Vidarbha 204/7 in 72 overs (Shiv Sunder Das 45, Shalabh Shrivastava 37; Rana Dutta 2/34, Manisankar Murasingh 2/76)
Group B:
At Porvorim: Goa 147 all out vs Hyderabad 298/6 in 116 overs (Akshath Reddy 118, Bavanaka Sandeep 68; Saurabh Bandekar 2/77)
At Dhanbad: Assam 502 all out in 165.4 overs (Gokul Sharma 115, Amit Sinha 109; Samar Quadri 3/158, Shahbaz Nadeem 4/170, Shankar Rao 2/46) vs Jharkhand 25/2 in 16 overs (Abu Nechim 2/6)
At Ratnagiri: Jammu and Kashmir 388 all out in 118.4 overs (Adil Rishi 88, Samiullah Beigh 69; Akshya Darekar 5/79, Domnic Joseph 2/68, Samad Fallah 3/100) vs Maharashtra 204/2 in 59 overs (Chirag Khurana 81, Sangram Dilp Atitkar batting 56; Abid Nabi 1/21)
