Ranji Trophy 2016-17 Round 4, Day 1 Review

Baroda batsman Deepak Hooda made merry of the Punjab bowlers on day 1 of the 4th round of the Ranji Trophy 2016-17. Their top order was dismissed early as both Kedar Devdhar and Aditya Waghmode fell to Sandeep in the first and fifth over of the inning. But thereafter Dhiren Mistry and Hooda a 179-run partnership to bring back Baroda in the game. Hooda was magnificent with his stroke play and hit as many as 16 boundaries and 3 sixes in his unbeaten knock of 190 from just 215 balls.

In the Maharashtra vs Rajasthan match in Hyderabad, the former elected to bat first. Naushad Shaikh and Ankit Bawane shared a 177-run stand for 3rd wicket in 57.2 overs before Bawane edged to keeper and walked off despite the umpire turned down the appeal of Pankaj Singh. He scored 83 off 174 with 10 fours and 2 sixes. Naushad went on to bring up his maiden century with his 17th boundary in 239 balls. He shared an unbeaten 63-run stand before going to stumps with Tripathi for the 4th wicket. Naushad hit a six and 18 fours in his unbeaten innings of 118 off 256 balls. A total of 73 overs were bowled by Team Rajasthan pacers out of the 88 overs. In addition, they bowled 17 no balls as well.

There were only 4.2 overs possible in the Himachal Pradesh vs Hyderabad game while Railways and Jharkhand bowled out their respective opponents Bengal and Vidarbha on day 1 of the 4th round. Here is the how the day panned out.

Brief Scores:

Uttar Pradesh vs Gujarat, Group A

Gujarat: 276/8 (Samit Gohel 60, Priyank Panchal 60, Parthiv Patel 60; Imtiaz Ahmed 4/48)

Railways vs Bengal, Group A

Bengal: 205/10 (Sudip Chatterjee 85; Anureet Singh 4/66) in 69.5 overs

Railways: 34/4 (Mrunal Devdhar 17; Ashok Dinda 2/17)

Tamil Nadu vs Madhya Pradesh, Group A

Tamil Nadu: 262/4 (Dinesh Karthik 95, Kaushik Gandhi 71; Chandrakant Sakure 2/47) in 85 overs

Punjab vs Baroda, Group A

Baroda: 358/6 (Deepak Hooda 190*; Sandeep Sharma 4/64)

Jharkhand vs Vidarbha, Group B

Vidarbha: 105/10 (Jitesh Sharma 21; Vikash Singh 4/24)

Jharkhand: 146/1 (Pratyush Singh 80*; Rajneesh Gurbani 1/28) in 43 overs

Assam vs Karnataka, Group B

Assam: 268/6 (Amit Verma 125*; Sreenath Arvind 5/49) in 90 overs

Rajasthan vs Maharashtra, Group B

Maharashtra: 280/3 (Naushad Shaikh 118; Pankaj Singh 2/38)

Delhi vs Odisha, Group B

Odisha: 237/10 (Subhranshu Senapati 76, Biplab Samantray 62; Varun Sood 3/23) in 77.4 overs

Delhi: 43/0 (Gautam Gambhir 26*)

Hyderabad vs Himachal Pradesh, Group C

Himachal Pradesh: 8/2 (Nikhil Gangta 4*; Ravi Kiran 1/4) in 4.1 Overs

Chhattisgarh vs Kerala, Group C

Kerala: 194/8 (Rohan Prem 62, Sanju Samson 41; Pankaj Kumar Rao 3/35) in 65.0 Overs

Jammu and Kashmir vs Services, Group C

Services: 287/3 (Gahlaut Rahul Singh 127*, Shamsher Yadav 72*; Parvez Rasool 2/68) in 90.0 Overs

Tripura vs Goa, Group C

Tripura: 283/10 out (Rajat Dey 87, Abhijit Dey 58; Shadab Jakati 4/67) in 80 overs

Haryana vs Andhra, Group C

Andhra: 217/6 (Prasanth Kumar 74, Hanuman Vihari 62; Yuzvendra Chahal 3/57) in 89 overs