Ranji Trophy 2016-17, Round 8, Day 3 Review

Ranji Trophy 2016-17 is inching towards the knockouts stage. All teams are keen on notching up big wins to make it to the next stage. While Maharashtra suffered a heavy defeat against Odisha on day 2, they reduced their chances of going to the knockouts. The third day of the round 8 of Ranji Trophy 2016-17 saw Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh dominate the headlines.

Bengal showed up great resistance against Mumbai. At one stage, Bengal looked stuttering after having been bowled out for 99 in their first innings. Skipper Manoj Tiwary led the fightback with Sudip Chatterjee. Both batsmen scored tons to put up a 271 run stand and took Bengal to safety with 433/8 in their second innings.

In the other encounter at Rajkot, Railways were struggling at 35/5 against Uttar Pradesh. Saurashtra look in firm control against Karnataka. They ended up scoring 359 kudos to 126 by Preral Mankad. The match between Vidarbha and Delhi was washed out on the third day and the rain gods did not let a single ball being bowled. Goa managed to beat Andhra in a low scoring affair at Dhanbad. Shadab Jakati emerged as the player of the match with figures of 8/53 and 3/70 in the two innings.

Brief Scores Ranji Trophy 2016-17:

Bengal v Mumbai – Bengal lead by 303 runs

Bengal 99 (Sudip Chatterjee 35, Abhishek Raman 21; Shardul Thakur 6-31, Dhawal Kulkarni 3-22)

Mumbai 229 (Kaustubh Pawar 78, Shreyas Iyer 28; Ashok Dinda 5-88, Mukesh Kumar 3-56)

Bengal 433/8 (Manoj Tiwary 169, Sudip Chatterjee 130; Dhawal Kulkarni 4-108, Abhishek Nayar 2-70)

Baroda v Madhya Pradesh – Baroda need 233 runs

Madhya Pradesh 217 (Devendra Bundela 86, Puneet Datey 34; Babashafi Pathan 5-48, Irfan Pathan 2-51)

Baroda 167 (Deepak Hooda 61, Irfan Pathan 31; Ishwar Pandey 5-29, Puneet Datey 3-40)

Madhya Pradesh 293 (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 73, Naman Ojha 57; Atit Sheth 4-51, Sagar Mangalgaonkar 3-70)

Baroda 114/9 (Devdhar 18, Pinal 17, Chandrakant Sakure 4-17, I Pandey 2/19)

Gujarat v Punjab – Punjab by 341 runs

Gujarat 624/6 (Priyank Panchal 314*, Bhargav Merai 65, Axar Patel 65; Sandeep Sharma 3-120)

Punjab 247 (Manan Vohra 68, Mayank Siddana 39; Rush Kalaria 4-41)

Punjab 36/1 (Vohra 14, Kalaria 1/2)

Railways v Uttar Pradesh – Railways need 341 runs

Uttar Pradesh 259 (Suresh Raina 91, Saurabh Kumar 53; Karn Sharma 4-48, Anureet Singh 4-67)

Railways 213 (Saurabh 74, Arindam Ghosh 58; Imtiaz Ahmed 5-34, Praveen Kumar 2-20)

Uttar Pradesh 330 (Shivam Chaudhary 134, Suresh Raina 91; Karn Sharma 5-71, Karan Thakur 3-82)

Railways 35/5 (Praveen Kumar 2-8)

Saurashtra v Karnataka – Karnataka lead by 9 runs

Karnataka 200/10 (Pandey 75, Gopal 38, Jivrajani 3/41, Chauhan 3/52)

Saurashtra 359 (Prerak Mankad 126, Snell Patel 87; Vinay Kumar 4-54, Abrar Kazi 4-83)

Karnataka 168/5 (Kaunain Abbas 62*, Manish Pandey 58; Kamlesh Makwana 3-46, Jay Chauhan 2-54)

Assam v Jharkhand – Assam lead by 79 runs

Jharkhand 316/10 (Jaggi 93, Tiwary 88, K Das 4/65, Nechim 2/38)

Assam 126 (P Das 30, Karhik 27, Shukla 4/48, A Kumar 2/21)

Assam 269/5 (Rishav Das 113, Sibsankar Roy 80*; Ajay 2-37, Shahbaz Nadeem 1-39)

Andhra v Goa – Goa WON by 34 runs

Goa 115 (Sumiran Amonkar 29; Bhargav Bhatt 6-36)

Andhra 159 (Srikar Bharat 68; Shadab Jakati 8-53)

Goa 276 (Saurabh Bandekar 75, Snehal Kauthankar 61; Hanuma Vihari 3-17)

Andhra 198 (Ricky Bhui 71, DB Ravi Teja 49; Rituraj Singh 4-24, Shadab Jakati 3-70)

Kerala v Tripura – Kerala need 66 runs

Tripura 213 (Y Singh 50, Murasingh 42, Warrier 3/34, Saxena 3/37)

Kerala 193 (Azharuddeen 40, Chandran 36*, Majumder 4/43, Murasingh 4/52)

Tripura 162 (Smit Patel 54; Akshay Chandran 4-16, Iqbal Abdulla 3-32)

Kerala 117/0 (Mohammed Azharuddeen 80*, Bhavin Thakkar 37*)

Chhattisgarh v Services – Chhattisgarh need 275 runs

Services 225/10 (NH Verma 54, Hathwala 50, Ruikar 5/73, ARPS Chauhan 2/24)

Chhattisgarh 281/10 (Manoj 67, Khare 51, Pathania 6/78, Yadav 2/71)

336/7 decl. (Nakul Verma 156*, Rahul Singh 99; Pankaj Rao 3-64, Kant Singh 3-79)

Chhattisgarh 6/0

Jammu and Kashmir v Hyderabad – J & K need 362 runs 

Hyderabad 328/10 (Agarwal 119, Badrinath 47, Zargar 4/63, Beigh 3/77)

J & K 169/10 (Zargar 70, Beigh 29, Kiran 4/32, Siraj 3/51)

Hyderabad 244/2 decl. (Tanmay Agarwal 103*, S Badrinath 66, Akshath Reddy 53)

J & K 42/4 (Ahmed Bandy 16; Ravi Kiran 2-14)

Haryana v Himachal Pradesh – HP trail by 27 runs

Haryana 402/10 (G Singh 120, Rohilla 64, KA Singh 6/84, R Dhawan 3/138)

HP 233/10 (S Verma 66, A Kumar 37, S Pahal 5/71, M Sharma 3/25)

HP 142/1 (P Chopra 89, Pahal 1/28)