Ranji Trophy 2016-17, Round 2, Day 4 – Review

The final day of the round 2 of Ranji Trophy 2016-17 saw a few teams register handsome wins. Some had to settle for a draw. The biggest highlight of the day was Rishabh Pant’s remarkable triple ton. Maharashtra had earlier piled on a mammoth total of 635 kudos to a record 594-run stand between Swapnil Gugale and Ankeet Bawane. In response, Pant’s triple ton came in just 320 balls as he struck his highest score in FC career.

He was eventually dismissed on 308 in 326 balls with 42 fours and 9 sixes. His strike rate of over 94 was the key highlight of his innings. The match ended in a draw. Bengal batsmen Sreevats Goswami and opener Easwaran scored centuries each in the drawn game against Uttar Pradesh. Railways batsman Saurabh Wakaskar’s century went in vain against Tamil Nadu as they fell short by 174 runs on the final day.

Baroda’s batsmen Kedar Devdhar and Deepak Hooda also scored centuries on the last day but only to eventually draw the game against Mumbai. Yuvraj Singh’s Punjab restricted Madhya Pradesh to 180 and won by 126 runs. Manpreet bagged 4 wickets as Siddharth Kaul supported him with a 3-for. The match saw Ishwar Pandey (Madhya Pradesh) and Manpreet Grewal (Punjab) take 10-wicket match hauls.

Tripura defeated Services by 219 runs. This was their first ever win since the 2012-13 season. Odisha’s Suryakant Pradhan bagged 5/69 against Saurashtra to set up the base for his team’s win at Hyderabad. After the game, Odisha Cricket Association announced a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each to Man of the match Suryakant Pradhan, who picked up 8 wickets and Sandeep Patnaik, who scored century in first innings for their contribution in this win.

Here is the round up of all the matches in round 2 of Ranji Trophy 2016-17:

Group A

Railways v Tamil Nadu

Brief Scores: Tamil Nadu WON by 174 runs

Tamil Nadu 121/10 in 42.2 overs (Rangarajan 36*, A Mukund 22, D Bansal 4/48, M Singh 3/31)

Railways 173/10 in 64 overs (Devdhar 47, Ghosh 46, Natarajan 4/51, Vignesh 2/31)

Tamil Nadu 452/8 decl.  in 132 overs (D Karthik 163, A Mukund 100, K Sharma 4/109,M Chaudhary 2/80)

Railways 226/10 in 82.2 overs (Wakaskar 120, Shukla 52, Rangarajan 4/37, Kousik 2/17)

Uttar Pradesh v Bengal

Brief Scores: Match DRAWN

Bengal 466/10 in 139.2 overs (Easwaran 142, Tiwary 110, Kuldeep Yadav 5/115, Rajpoot 4/119)

Uttar Pradesh 410/10 in 112.4 overs (U Sharma 136, S khan 85, Gani 3/72Dinda 2/97)

Bengal 274/6 decl in 76 overs (Easwaran 110*, Goswami 100, K Yadav 4/107, Rajpoot 1/50)

Uttar Pradesh 70/0 in 20 overs (Shrivastava 31*, Shaukat 30*)

Madhya Pradesh v Punjab

Brief Scores: Punjab WON by 126 runs

Punjab 378/10 in 108.2 overs (Yuvraj 177, Gurkeerat 103, I Pandey 8/102, G Yadav 1/90)

Madhya Pradesh 247/10 in 87 overs (S Sharma 53, A Shrivastava 36, M Grewal 6/36, S Gill 2/77)

Punjab 175/9 decl. in 51.3 overs (Yuvraj 76, T Kohli 35, I Pandey 3/25, Sakure 2/39)

Madhya Pradesh 180/10 in 63.4 overs (Sharma 37, Bundela 32, Grewal 4/41, S Kaul 3/42)

Mumbai v Baroda

Brief Scores: Match DRAWN

Baroda 305/10 in 86.1 overs (P Shah 66, D Hooda 46, Gohil 3/70, Thakur 2/82)

Mumbai 323/10 in 92.5 overs (Herwadkar 106, B Sandhu 64, I Pathan 3/30, Mangalorkar 3/75)

Baroda 383/5 in 94 overs (Devdhar 145, Hooda 100*, Deshpande 2/61, Herwadkar 1/33)

Mumbai 224/5 in 77 overs (Tare 63*, Bista 49, Vahora 2/32, Pathan 2/59)

Group B

Maharashtra v Delhi

Brief Scores: Match DRAWN

Maharashtra 635/2 in 173 overs (Gugale 351*, Bawne 258*, Navdeep Saini 2/44)

Delhi 590/10 in 155 overs (Pant 308, Shorey 71, Sayyed 3/121, Khurana 3/143)

Jharkhand v Karnataka

Brief Scores: Match DRAWN

Karnataka 577/6 decl in 172 overs (R Samarth 235, Binny 97, A Kumar 3/78, Nadeem 2/199)

Jharkhand 374/10 in 115.1 overs (Kishan 159*, S Tiwary 91, Gowtham 3/97, Gopal 3/114)

Karnataka 162/3 in 53.4 overs (Nair 54*, Abbas 51*, Quadri 3/62)

Odisha v Saurashtra

Brief Scores: Odisha WON by 32 runs

Odisha 228/10 in 80.5 overs (S Pattnaik 123, Poddar 21, D Jadeja 4/67, D Punia 2/36)

Saurashtra 186/10 in 67.3 overs (J Shah 64, C Jani 45, B Mohanty 4/58, S Pradhan 3/37)

Odisha 169/10 in 64.4 overs (Senapati 57, A Sarangi 32, Punia 5/39, Unadkat 3/40)

Saurashtra 179/10 in 101 overs (Jogiyani 68, Jackson 43, Pradhan 5/69, D Singh 2/17)

Group C

Tripura v Services

Brief Scores: Tripura WON by 219 runs

Tripura 275/10 in 91.4 overs (B Ghosh 49, Y Singh 41, M Khalid 4/61, Pathania 3/71)

Services 233/10 in 82.5 overs (SU Yadav 101*, Pathania 34, R Datta 3/48, Mura Singh 3/58)

Tripura 340/3 in 89.2 overs (U Bose 1565, S Patel 127*, Gupta 1/4, Pathania 1/37)

Services 163/10 in 54.1 overs (R Singh 51, A Gupta 26, G Singh 4/25, Murasingh 3/54)

Andhra v Chhattisgarh

Brief Scores: Match DRAWN

Chhattisgarh 394/10 in 126.4 overs (Khare 143, A Chauhan 123, Siva Kumar 4/61, Stephen 2/69)

Andhra 199/10 in 73.2 overs (P Kumar 62, Ravi Teja 30, P Rao 4/70, A Chauhan 2/39)

Andhra 282/8 in 145 overs (Bharat 57, Vihari 51, A Mandal 3/30, K Singh 2/60)

Hyderabad v Haryana

Brief Scores: Haryana WON by 8 wickets

Hyderabad 191/10 in 82.5 overs (B Sandeep 44, Sumanth 35, Chahal 6/44, Pahal 2/31)

Haryana 331/10 in 130.4 overs (Bishnoi 73, N Saini 61, Hasan 6/93, M Siraj 3/50)e

Hyderabad 224/10 in 83.5 overs (Milind 66*, Sumanth 55, M Sharma 5/26, Pahal 3/49)

Haryana 85/2 in 16.4 overs (Saini 45, Bishnoi 20*, Siraj 1/18, Hasan 1/29)