Delhi’s willow woes continued as the team struggled at 214 for six after the likes of Yash Dhall and Himmat Singh failed to convert their starts into meaningful knocks in the Ranji Trophy match against Assam in New Delhi on Sunday. Resuming their overnight score of 264 for six, Assam’s first innings ended at 330 with wicketkeeper Sumit Gadigaonkar making 162 off 237 balls. Gadigaonkar turned 120 on the night as he saw his colleagues overwhelmed by Harshit Rana’s superb bowling. On the second day, Delhi scored 214 for six, trailing Assam by 116 runs.
Receiving his first Test call-up, Rana finished with fine figures of 5/80 in 19.3 overs, ending Assam’s innings with the wicket of Mrinmoy Dutta.
When it was their turn to bat, Delhi lost Gagan Vats for a duck, but Sanath Sangwan (47 off 88 balls) and Dhall (47 off 44 balls) added 66 runs for the second wicket to replace the innings.
Dulla’s wicket marked the arrival of captain Himmat, who added 81 runs for the third wicket with Sangwan before the latter was out early.
Even as Sangwan made his way back to the pavilion, Himmat looked determined to play a long innings but nine runs later, Assam veteran Swarupam Purkayastha dashed his hopes by bowling the batter for an 88-ball 55.
Purkayastha was Assam’s best bowler on the day with figures of 3/46 in 17 overs, while left-arm spinner Rahul Singh took 2/32 in the Group D match.
When Rahul trapped wicketkeeper Pranav Rajuvanshi in front of the wicket, Delhi were in all sorts of trouble at 182 for six. But Sumit Mathur (19 strikes) and Rana (15 strikes) ensured that there were no further losses for the home team until the end of the second day’s play.
At Delhi: Assam 330 (Sibsankar Roy 59, Sumit Gadigaonkar 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 batting 23) for 168 runs.
At Coimbatore: Chhattisgarh 500 (Aayush Pandey 124, Anuj Tiwari 84, Sanjeet Desai 82, Eknath Kerkar 52, Ajay Mandal 64; Ajit Ram 4/132) lead Tamil Nadu 23-1 (Ajit Ram 10 batting; Jeevesh Butte 1/5) on 477 runs.
In Rajkot: Railways 234 and 122-7 (Shivam Chaudhary 35; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 3/40, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya 3/50) are ahead of Saurashtra 196 (Prerak Mankad 52; Karn Sharma 4/38) by 160 services.
Samarth Hundred leads Uttarakhand to 242/7
Captain Ravikumar Samarth led by example with a fine century to power Uttarakhand before Vidarbha took a two-wicket lead at the end of the second day of play in the Ranji Trophy Group B match in Dehradun on Sunday.
Replying to Vidarbha’s innings total of 326, Uttarakhand managed 242 for seven at stumps thanks to Samarth’s innings of 119 that produced 241 balls.
However, the home team trailed Vidarbha by 84 runs despite Samarth’s hundred.
Samarth, 31, who left Karnataka to play for Uttarakhand this season, used his years of experience in first-class cricket to keep his team in contention against last season’s runners-up.
Arriving here with a reputation for being fluent in the top order, Samarth hit 12 boundaries during his time in the middle, helping his team stay in the game.
The problem with Uttarakhand’s innings was that Samarth did not get enough support at the other end.
Kunal Chandela (19), Yuvraj Chaudhary (28) and Swapnil Singh (27) started but could not convert them into big scores. Even opener Avnesh Sudha seemed to be on target but fell after scoring 30 off 45 balls.
39-year-old veteran spinner Akshay Wakhare was the player of the day for Vidarbha, taking 3/47 in 17 overs where Aditya Thakare had two wickets.
At stumps, Mayank Mishra and Abhay Negi batted at 1 and 2 respectively.
At Dehradun: Vidarbha 326 in just 88 overs (Dhruv Shorey 35, Danish Malewar 56, Yash Rathod 135; Mayank Mishra 3/72, Avnesh Sudha 2/35, Swapnil Singh 2/70) vs Uttarakhand 242/7 in 87 overs (Ravikumar Samarth 119; Akshay Vakhare 3/47)
At Visakhapatnam: Andhra 344 in just 92.4 overs (Shaik Rashid 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).
At Jaipur: Gujarat 335 in just 97.4 overs (Priyank Panchal 110, Arya Desai 86, Jamit Patel 61, Umang Kumar 41; Arafat Khan 4/50, Kukna Ajay Singh 3/102) vs Rajasthan 180/5 in 69 overs ( Abhijit Tomar 77; Jamit Patel 3/77).
At 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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