Ranji Trophy 2016-17, Round 1 - Review

In Round 1 of the Ranji Trophy 2016-17 Madhya Pradesh beat Uttar Pradesh – Harpreet Singh Bhatia unbeaten double ton and Chandrakant Sakure’s 6-wicket haul in the second inning helped MP beat UP by an innings and 64 runs in the season opener.

On a wicket that assisted the bowlers and was not at all easy for batting Abhishek Nayar stood out in the last inning to help Mumbai chase down the target with 2 wickets in hand, in a nailbiting finish against Tamil Nadu.

Young Delhi batsmen Rishab Pant and Nitish Rana hit identical scores of 146 as Delhi posted 589 runs in the only innings they batted; they had enough firepower in their bowling unit to bowl Assam out twice. As a result, Delhi beat Assam by an innings and 83 runs.

Century from Kaushal Singh (130) and a good bowling performance in both the innings helped Jharkhand beat Maharashtra in quite a convincing fashion.

GROUP A

Madhya Pradesh beat Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad by an innings and 64 runs

Brief scores:

Madhya Pradesh: 465 (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 216*, Ankit Sharma 61; Imtiaz Ahmed 3-58, Ankit Rajpoot 2-79)

Uttar Pradesh: 175 (Eklavya Dwivedi 37; Gaurav Yadav 4-44, Ishwar Pandey 3-65) &

225 (Tanmay Srivastava 93, Sarfaraz Khan 49; Chandrakant Sakure 6-40)

Baroda drew with Gujarat

Brief scores:

Baroda: 544/8 decl. (Aditya Waghmode 142, Deepak Hooda 118; Axar Patel 3-136, Rujul Bhatt 2-39) Gujarat: 554/4 (Manpreet Juneja 201*, Axar Patel 109*; Krunal Pandya 2-50).

Punjab drew with Railways

Brief scores:

Railways: 331 (Shivakant Shukla 128, Ashish Yadav 81; Siddharth Kaul 5-68, Vijay Choudhary 2-59) &

245/7 (Saurabh Wakaskar 56 retd. hurt, Shivakant Shukla 83*; Vinay Choudhary 1-54)

Punjab: 215 (Gurkeerat Mann 66, Uday Kaul 61; Manjeet Singh 4-56) &

170/3 (Uday Kaul 61*, Mandeep Singh 41*).

Mumbai beat Tamil Nadu by 2 wickets

Brief scores:

Tamil Nadu 87 (Baba Indrajith 28; Tushar Deshpande 4-25, Dhawal Kulkarni 4-31) &

185 (Abhinav Mukund 56, Washington Sundar 40; Dhawal Kulkarni 6-47, Vijay Gohil 3-46)

Mumbai 176 (Aditya Tare 48, Kautubh Pawar 35; K Vignesh 5-41, Aswin Christ 3-51) &

97/8 (Abhishek Nayar 45*, Balwinder Sandhu 12; K Vignesh 4-29, Aswin Christ 4-43)

GROUP B

Delhi beat Assam by an innings and 83 runs

Brief scores:

Assam: 193 (Tajinder Singh 61*, Rahul Hazarika 37; Pradeep Sangwan 3-47, Navdeep Saini 2-43) &

313 (Syed Mohammed 82, Swarupam Purkayastha 47; Manan Sharma 5-108)

Delhi: 589/8 decl. (Rishabh Pant 146, Nitish Rana 146, Pradeep Sangwan 100*; Abu Nechim 5-106)

Jharkhand beat Maharashtra by 6 wickets

Brief scores:

Maharashtra: 210 (Ankit Bawne 78, Kedar Jadhav 59; Varun Aaron 4-47, Ashish Kumar 3-32) &

188 (Kedar Jadhav 56; Shahbaz Nadeem 3-43, Ashish Kumar 3-44)

Jharkhand: 306 (Kaushal Singh 130, Virat Singh 46; Anupam Sanklecha 5-72, Shrikant Munde 4-102) &

93/4 (Virat Singh 33, Anand Singh 25)

Saurashtra drew with Rajasthan

Brief scores:

Saurashtra: 430 (Jaydev Shah 193, Sheldon Jackson 76; Aniket Choudhary 2-67, Kukna Ajay Singh 2-70)

Rajasthan: 150 (Manender Singh 44; Saurya Sanandiya 6-14) & 30/4 (Rajat Bhatia 14; Jaydev Unadkat 2-4)

Odisha drew with Vidarbha

Brief scores:

Odisha: 150 (Biplab Samatray 53; Shikhant Wagh 3-13, Akshay Wakhare 3-19) &

274/9 decl. (Govind Podder 58, Sandeep Pattnaik 40; Akshay Wakhare 3-61)

Vidarbha: 272/6 decl. (Faiz Fazal 99, Ganesh Satish 74; Deepak Behera 3-35)

GROUP C

Hyderabad beat Goa by 9 wickets

Brief scores:

Goa 164 (Saurabh Bandekar 59; Mohammed Siraj 4-14) &

258 (Sagun Kamat 55, Sandeep Bandekar 51; Ravi Kiran 3-40)

Hyderabad: 388 (Akshath Reddy 128, Bavanaka Sandeep 108; Amit Yadav 3-73) &

35/1 (Tanmay Agarwal 27*) by 9 wickets

Kerala drew with Jammu & Kashmir

Brief scores:

Kerala 306 (Sanju Samson 154, Jalaj Saxena 69; Samiullah Beigh 6-82)

Jammu & Kashmir 121 (Adil Reshi 40; Karaparambil Monish 4-9, Iqbal Abdulla 3-36) &

91/4 (Shubham Khajuria 39*; Iqbal Abdullah 2-21)

Himachal Pradesh drew with Andhra

Brief scores:

Himachal Pradesh: 350 (Sumeet Verma 142, Prashant Chopra 117; C Stephan 2-74)

Andhra: 167/1 (Prashanth Kumar 93*, Hanuma Vihari 68*)

Haryana drew with Services

Brief scores:

Services: 197 (Anshul Gupta 69; Rajat Paliwal 3-14) &

329/6 decl. (Nakul Verma 78, Shamsher Yadav 70; Ashok Sandhu 2-46)

Haryana: 248 (Shubham Rohilla 92; Vikas Yadav 4-80, Muzzaffaruddin Khalid 4-86) &

136/1 (Nitin Saini 101*)

Chhattisgarh beat Tripura by 9 wickets

Brief scores:

Tripura: 118 (Abhijit Dey 32; Ajay Mandal 3-41) & 146 (Smit Patel 26; Ajay Mandal 4-55)

Chhattisgarh: 255 (Ashutosh Singh 140; Abhijit Dey 4-26) & 13/0 by 9 wickets