Ranji Trophy 2016/17, Round 7 – Day 3 Round Up

A couple of attention-grabbing bowling performances and few solid batting displays made up for the highlights of the action that unfolded on day three in the round 7 of the Ranji Trophy 2016/17. Middle order man Rohan Prem struck a fine 89 to help Kerala extend their lead to 222 and set themselves in a great position against Andhra. Punjab, backed by Manpreet Grewal’s 4/81 were able to fold up Tamil Nadu for 354 and batted pretty steadily in response to built a 51 run lead by the end of the day.

Karnataka produced a much better batting performance in the third innings after restricting Odisha for 342 in the second innings. CM Gautam was yet again the core of all the batting action and remained unbeaten on 68. Anupam Sanklecha, the 34-year-old domestic veteran from Maharastra, produced the most commendable individual performance of the day, snapping 8/73 against Assam. The team continued their good work looked on the verge of bowling out Assam for another cheap score. Assam could not withstand the combined bowling effort from the opposition and was reeling at 115/6, trailing by 171 runs and staring at an innings defeat.

Here are the brief scores after day 2 in Ranji Trophy 2016-17:

Himachal Pradesh v Services – HP trail by 219 runs

Services 401/10 (R Chauhan 149, NH Verma 117, R Dhawan 5/82, P Jaiswal 2/82)

Himachal Pradesh 296 (Dogra 70; A Gupta 3/20)

Tripura v Jammu and Kashmir – Tripura trail by 122 runs

J & K 315/10 (AP Singh 74, ID Chauhan 59, Murasingh 4/75, R Dutta 3/74) & 198/3 (Ian Chauhan 67; AA Dev 2/34)

Tripura 297 (B Ghosh 95*; Parvez Rasool 3/67)

Haryana v Goa – Haryana trail by 303 runs

Goa 413/10 (Kauthankar 225, Pinto 58, H Patel 4/75, A Mishra 4/147)

Haryana 392/3 (Saini 211*, Darshan Misal 1/37)

Hyderabad v Chhattisgarh – Chhattisgarh trail by 227 runs

Hyderabad 351 all out (Badrinath 134, B Sandeep 96, PK Rao 5/89, AR Chauhan 2/35) & 115/9 (Akash Bandari 29; Abhishek 4/19)

Chhattisgarh 188 (AR Chauhan 55; Akash Bandari 3/27)

Maharashtra v Assam  – Assam trail by 410 runs

Maharashtra 542/10 (K Jadhav 115, Khurana 112*, Nechim 3/83, J Mohammad 3/91) & 115/6 (Arun Karthick 33*; Sanklecha 3/37)

Assam 256 all out (R Das 84; Sanklecha 8/73)

Rajasthan v Delhi – Rajasthan trail by 50 runs

Rajasthan 238 all out (A Gautam 106, Saini 3/28) & 221 all out (RK Bishnoi 89; Pradeep Sangwan 3/31)

Delhi 307/10 (Pant 75, Milind 41, Tanveer 3/55, Lomror 3/62) & 51/3 (Shikhar Dhawan 35; AV Chowdhury 1/18)

Odisha v Karnataka – Odisha lead by 139 runs

Karnataka 179/10 (CM Gautam 54; Mohanty 3/46) & 244/6 (CM Gautam 68; Dhraj Singh 3/54)

Odisha 342 all out (Rawat 85; S Gopal 5/75)

Vidarbha v Saurashtra – Vidarbha trail by 59 runs

Saurashtra 301/10 (Jackson 116; Gurbani 4/85)

Vidarbha 301 all out (Fazal 94; M Jivrajani 4/93)

Madhya Pradesh v Railways – MP trail by 300 runs

Railways 371/10 (Bhille 102; A Sharma 6/108)

MP 371 all out (Devendra Bundela 131; A Yadav 3/90)

Tamil Nadu v Punjab – TN trail by 66 runs

Punjab 284/10 (M Vohra 73, U Kaul 56, Crist 3/73)

Tamil Nadu 354 (Gandhi 164, Manpreet Grewal 4/81)

Mumbai v Gujarat – Mumbai trail by 379 runs

Gujarat 437/10 (P Panchal 232, Dabholkar 6/118)

Mumbai 328/6 (Iyer 191*, Bumrah 4/49)

Kerala v Andhra – Andhra trail by 46 runs

Kerala 219/10 (Azharuddeen 82, Prem 42, Vijaykumar 6/47, Bhatt 2/56) & 229/5 (Rohan Prem 89; Vijay Kumar 3/48)

Andhra 226 (P Kumar 61, Bharat 54, Prem 2/7, Thampi 2/22)