Ranji Trophy 2016-17: Round 5 Review

The decisive day of the of the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy 2016-17 saw top teams register comprehensive wins and earn crucial points. Mumbai was the first to finished their game today. Needing only 24 runs to win the match against Railways. It was a highly comprehensive win from the defending champions after levelling two of their previous matches.

Punjab also performed similarly and was not required to break any sweat today as they completed a comfortable 7 wicket win over the listless Uttar Pradesh who were bowled out for just 95 in the second innings. Arup Das continued his fabulous run with the ball and claimed successive five wicket hauls to help Assam beat Saurashtra by 9 wickets. After picking up 7 wickets in the first innings, Das came back and picked 5/21 and bundled Saurashtra for just 81 and set his team a target of just 66 runs.

Tamil Nadu reached the top of the ranking table in Group A after it registered an easy victory over Baroda beating them by an innings and 44 runs.  Baroda could muster only 200 runs in after being made to follow-on after getting rattled for just 93 runs batting in reply to TN’s first innings total of 337 runs.  

 Brief Scores:

(Group A)

Mumbai v Railways, Mysore

Mumbai: 345 (Suryakumar Yadav 110, Karn Sharma 5/81) & 24/0

Railways: 160 all out (ARB Singh 22; V Gohil 5/64) & 135/4 (Saurabh 39; T Deshpande 2/8) & 208 (Saurabh 39)

Mumbai won by 10 wickets

Tamil Nadu v Baroda, Raipur

Baroda: 93 (Krishnamoorthy Vignesh 5/23, Aswin Crist 4/39) & 44/0 (Kedar Devdhar 33) & 200 (Soeb Tai 69; RA Srinivas 4)

Tamil Nadu: 337 (Abhinav Mukund 100; Munaf Patel 4/91)

Tamil Nadu Won by an innings and 44 Runs

Punjab v Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad

UP: 335/6 (Kuldeep Yadav 71*; Sandeep Sharma 5/85) & 95 all out (Rinku Singh 43; Siddharth Kaul 6/26)

Punjab: 319 (Yuvraj Singh 85; Saurabh Kumar 4/71) & 112/3 (Jiwanjot Singh 69; Saurabh Kumar 2/31)

Punjab won by 7 wickets

(Group B)

Rajasthan v Odisha, Patiala

Rajasthan: 323 (SF Khan 110; Govind Poddar 3/59) & 244/2 (Subhransu Senapati 90; MK Lomror 1/23)

Odisha: 172 all out (Deepak Behera 67; AV Choudhary 4/46) & 506/6d (Subhransu Senapati 137; SF Khan 2/42)

Match Drawn Team Rajasthan took first innings lead

Delhi v Jharkhand, Thiruvananthapuram

Jharkhand: 493 (Ishan Kishan 273; Subodh Bhati 3/80) & 165/1 (Dhruv Shorey 63; Sunny Gupta 1/50)

Delhi: 334 (Rishabh Pant 117*; Sunny Gupta 3/62) & 480/6 (Rishabh Pant 135; Subodh Bhati 3/80)

Match Drawn Jharkhand took first innings lead

Vidarbha v Karnataka, Vadodara

Karnataka: 267 (Krishnappa Gowtham 60*, Lalit Yadav 5/67) & 209 (Vinay Kumar 56; SB Wagh 4/59)

Vidarbha: 176 all out (JM Sharma 61; Shreayas Gopal 3/22) & 111 all out (JM Sharma 61; Vinay Kumar 5/28)

Karnataka Won by 189 Runs

Assam v Saurashtra, Kolkata

Saurashtra 153 (Jaydev Unadkat 42*; Arup Das 7/39) & 81 all out (Amitoza Singh 30; Arup Das 5/21)

Assam 171 (A Karthick 57; Jaydev Unadkat 6/48) & 66/1 (Rishav Das 30; Jaydev Unadkat 1/28)

Assam Won by 9 Wickets

(Group C)

Himachal Pradesh v Jammu & Kashmir, Ranchi

Jammu & Kashmir: 162 (Shubham Khajuria 48, Mayank Dagar 4/33) & 39/0 (Umar Nissar 17) & 417 (Ian Chauhan 99; BB Sharma 4/97)

Himachal Pradesh: 370 (PK Dogra 89; Aamir Aziz 4/56) & 210/5 (Robin Bist 52; Samiullah Beigh 3/56)

Andhra v Services, Indore

Services: 446 all out (Shamsher Yadav 136; Ravi Teja 3/25) & 27/0

Andhra 341 (Prashanth Kumar 110; Azharuddin Baloch 5/92)

Match Drawn Services took first innings lead

Goa v Chhattisgarh, Cuttack

Chhattisgarh: 198 all out (Amandeep Khare 60; RR Singh 6/60) & 162 (S Gupta 82; Shadab Jakati 4/41)

Goa: 270 (Samar Dubhashi 97; Pankaj Rao 4/95) & 94/2 (Swapnil Asnodkar 41; AK Singh 1/23)

Goa Won by 8 Wickets