Delhi’s woes with the willow continued because the staff struggled to 214 for six after the likes of Yash Dhull and Himmat Singh did not convert their begins into substantial knocks of their Ranji Trophy match towards Assam in New Delhi on Sunday. Resuming at their in a single day rating of 264 for six, Assam’s first innings innings ended at 330 with wicketkeeper Sumit Ghadigaonkar making 162 off 237 balls. Ghadigaonkar was in a single day 120, having seen his colleagues blown away by Harshit Rana’s wonderful bowling. Delhi had been 214 for six at stumps on day two, trailing Assam by 116 runs.
Having obtained his maiden Check call-up, Rana ended with high-quality figures of 5/80 in 19.3 overs, wrapping up Assam’s innings with the wicket of Mrinmoy Dutta.
When their flip to bat got here, Delhi misplaced Gagan Vats for a duck however Sanat Sangwan (47 off 88 balls) and Dhull (47 off 44 balls) added 66 runs for the second wicket to stead the innings.
Dhull’s wicket signalled the arrival of skipper Himmat, who added 81 runs for the third wicket with Sangwan earlier than the latter was out leg earlier than.
At the same time as Sangwan walked again to the pavilion, Himmat seemed decided to play a protracted innings however 9 runs later, Assam’s veteran off-spinner Swarupam Purkayastha dashed his hopes by bowling out the batter for an 88-ball 55.
Purkayastha was Assam’s greatest bowler on the day with figures of three/46 in 17 overs, whereas left-arm spinner Rahul Singh picked up 2/32 within the Group D match.
When Rahul had wicketkeeper Pranav Rajuvanshi trapped in entrance of the wicket, Delhi had been in all kinds of bother at 182 for six. However Sumit Mathur (19 batting) and Rana (15 batting) ensured there was no additional casualty for the house staff till the shut of play on the second day.
At Delhi: Assam 330 (Sibsankar Roy 59, Sumit Ghadigaonkar 162; Harshit Rana 5/80) lead Delhi 214-6 (Himmat Singh 55; Swarupam Purkayastha 3/46) by 116 runs.
At Jamshedpur: Jharkhand 202 (Anukul Roy 61; Jagjit Singh 3/32, Vishu Kashyap 3/64) lead Chandigarh 34-0 (Shivam Bhambri 23 batting) by 168 runs.
At Coimbatore: Chhattisgarh 500 (Aayush Pandey 124, Anuj Tiwary 84, Sanjeet Desai 82, Eknath Kerkar 52, Ajay Mandal 64; Ajith Ram 4/132) lead Tamil Nadu 23-1 (Ajith Ram 10 batting; Jivesh Butte 1/5) by 477 runs.
At Rajkot: Railways 234 & 122-7 (Shivam Chaudhary 35; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 3/40, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya 3/50) lead Saurashtra 196 (Prerak Mankad 52; Karn Sharma 4/38) by 160 runs.
Samarth hundred guides Uttarakhand to 242/7
Captain Ravikumar Samarth led by instance with a high-quality century to prop up Uttarakhand earlier than Vidarbha nosed forward with two wickets on the fag finish of second day’s play of their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Dehradun on Sunday.
Responding to Vidarbha’s first-innings whole of 326 all out, Uttarakhand managed to succeed in 242 for seven at stumps due to Samarth’s innings of 119, which got here off 241 balls.
Nonetheless, the house staff trailed Vidarbha by 84 runs regardless of Samarth’s hundred.
The 31-year-old Samarth, who left Karnataka to play for Uttarakhand this season, used his years of expertise in top notch cricket to maintain his aspect within the sport towards final season’s runners-up.
Having come right here with a status for being fluent on the high of the order, Samarth struck 12 boundaries throughout his keep within the center, serving to his staff stay within the sport.
The issue with Uttarakhand innings was that Samarth didn’t get sufficient help on the different finish.
Kunal Chandela (19), Yuvraj Chaudhary (28) and Swapnil Singh (27) obtained begins however couldn’t convert them into huge scores. Even opener Avneesh Sudha appeared to have gotten his eye in however fell after making 30 off 45 balls.
The 39-year-old veteran off-spinner Akshay Wakhare was the day’s most bowler for Vidarbha, returning figures of three/47 in 17 overs, the place there have been two wickets for Aditya Thakare.
At stumps, Mayank Mishra and Abhay Negi had been batting on 1 and a pair of respectively.
In Dehradun: Vidarbha 326 all out in 88 overs (Dhruv Shorey 35, Danish Malewar 56, Yash Rathod 135; Mayank Mishra 3/72, Avneesh Sudha 2/35, Swapnil Singh 2/70) vs Uttarakhand 242/7 in 87 overs (Ravikumar Samarth 119; Akshay Wakhare 3/47)
In Visakhapatnam: Andhra 344 all out in 92.4 overs (Shaik Rasheed 69, Hanuma Vihari 66, Srikar Bharat 65; Rishi Dhawan 3/80, Divesh Sharma 5/60) vs Himachal Pradesh 198/4 in 65 overs (Ankit Kalsi 53, Akash Vasisht 52; KV Sasikanth 3/50).
In Jaipur: Gujarat 335 all out in 97.4 overs (Priyank Panchal 110, Aarya Desai 86, Jaymeet Patel 61, Umang Kumar 41; Arafat Khan 4/50, Kukna Ajay Singh 3/102) vs Rajasthan 180/5 in 69 overs (Abhijeet Tomar 77; Jaymeet patel 3/77).
In Hyderabad: Hyderabad 536/8 declared in 163 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 173, Abhirath Reddy 68, Rohit Rayudu 84, Kodimela Himateja 60, Tanay Thyagarajan 53; Ankit Sharma 3/117, Satish Jangir 2/72) vs Puducherry 24/2 in 12 overs.
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