Ranji Trophy 2016-17: Round 9, Day 3 Review

Ranji Trophy 2016-17 is moving towards the business end, with the quarter-finals round the corner, all teams are keen on beefing up their strengths. Karnataka and Haryana notched up clinical wins on the day 3. Karnataka ended Maharashtra’s quest to qualify for the finals with a thumping 10-wickets win. Haryana beat Tripura by a handsome margin of 119 runs.

In the match between Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, Kushank Gandhi’s unbeaten 150 saw Tamil Nadu take a lead of 90 runs in the first innings. Playing against Goa, Himachal Pradesh batsmen Prashant Chopra (194) and Sumeet Verma (160) helped their side post a mammoth 528 on the board in response to Goa’s 380.

Chhattisgarh’s Sumit Ruikar bagged 5/59 against Jammu and Kashmir to restrict them to 242 as against Chhattisgarh’s total of 370. Kerala’s Sachin Baby scored an unbeaten 112 against Services. Kerala’s Sachin Baby scored an unbeaten 112 against Services. Lalit Yadav’s 6/60 helped Vidarbha keep the Rajasthan lead down to 187. They will need 188 to win on the last day.

Here are the scores at the end of day three of the current round of Ranji Trophy 2016-17:

Brief Scores:

Tripura v Haryana – Haryana WON by 119 runs

Haryana 231/10 (Bishnoi 52, Tewatia 35, Murasingh 3/52, Majumder 3/53)

Tripura 178/10 (Smit Patel 102, B Ghosh 36, Harshal Patel 5/27, Tewatia 2/10)

Haryana 261/9 (Saini 104, Rohilla 47, B Roy 4/42, Majumder 2/46)

Tripura 195/10 (G Singh 62, Murasingh 60, Pahal 3/47, J Sharma 2/24)

Punjab v Mumbai – Mumbai Trail by 189 runs

Punjab 468/10 (Sidhana 115, U Kaul 86, S Yadav 4/47, Shardul 2/44)

Mumbai 185/10 (Shardul 70, Sufiyan 67, Gony 4/39, R Singh 2/43)

Mumbai 94/2 (Iyer 59*, Kaul 1/9)

Baroda v Uttar Pradesh – UP lead by 140 runs

Uttar Pradesh 481/10 (Kuldeep 117, S Kumar 105, Mangalorkar 3/89, B Pathan 3/116)

Baroda 458/10 (Devdhar 157, Swapnil 95, Imtiaz 4/126, P Kumar 2/79)

UP 117/0 (Shaukat 61*)

Madhya Pradesh v Bengal – MP trail by 112 runs

Bengal 475/9 (Goswami 225*, Easwaran 80, Datey 4/105, Sakure 3/105)

Madhya Pradesh 363/8 (Ankit 90*, Patidar 86, Ghish 4/87)

Tamil Nadu v Gujarat – TN lead by 90 runs

Gujarat 307/10 (Panchal 113, Axar 44, Natarajan 3/86)

Tamil Nadu 397/4 (K Gandhi 150*, Mukund 99, Kalaria 2/47)

Saurashtra v Delhi – Delhi need 139 runs

Saurashtra 92/10 (Mankad 33, Snell 26, Sangwan 4/25, Narwal 4/27)

Delhi 237/10 (Sangwan 75, Pant 40, Kushang Patel 5/72)

Saurashtra 392/7 (Parmar 149, Vasavada 83*, Saini 3/127, Rana 2/33)

Delhi 109/4 (Gambhir 34, Pant 19*, Sanandiya 3/39)

Maharashtra v Karnataka – Karnataka WON by 10 Wickets

Maharashtra 163/10 (Motwani 32, Gugale 25, Vinay Kumar 5/46, Aravind 2/32)

Karnataka 345/10 (Deshpande 70, Samarth 64, Sanklecha 3/78, Khurana 2/41)

Maharashtra 218/10 (Jadhav 85, Khurana 28, Mathias 3/37, Mithun 2/44)

Karnataka 39/0 (Samarth 25*)

Vidarbha v Rajasthan – Rajasthan lead by 187 runs

Rajasthan 140/10 (MN Singh 27, R Bhatia 26, Sarwate 3/22, Wagh 2/23)

Vidarbha 116/10 (Wath 50, Tanveer Ul-Haq 6/21, P Singh 3/52)

Rajasthan 163/10 (Gautam 51, Dobal 34, Lalit Yadav 6/60, Wagh 2/32)

Hyderabad v Andhra – Hyderabad need 206 runs

Andhra 190/10 (Manyala 63, Hebbar 52, Milind 5/28, R Kiran 4/33)

Hyderabad 143/10 (Anirudh 27, Milind 29*, Vijaykumar 4/40, Bhatt 2/24)

Andhra 171/6 (Vihari 57, P Kumar 36, Siraj 4/52)

Hyderabad 13/1

Himachal Pradesh v Goa – Goa trail by 49 runs

Goa 380/10 (Misal 106, Kamat 104, A Chauhan 3/80)

HP 528/10 (P Chopra 194, Sumeet 160, RR Singh 3/89, Pandrekar 2/67)

Goa 99/2 (Amonkar 54*, KA Singh 1/9)

Chhattisgarh v Jammu and Kashmir – Chhattisgarh lead by 229 runs

Chhattisgarh 370/10 (Khare 106, Mandal 74, Beigh 5/94, Sofi 3/44)

JK 242/10 (Rasool 92, IDS Chauhan 48, Ruikar 5/59, PK Rao 3/64)

Chhattisgarh 101/1 (Manoj 45*)

Kerala v Services – Kerala trail by 51 runs

Services 322/10 (A Gupta 104, GR Singh 71, Ashraf 4/60)

Kerala 271/5 (Baby 112*, Saxena 84, Irfan 3/73, Pathania 2/74)