Ranji Trophy 2016-17: Round 9, Day 1 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. Yet another round of Ranji Trophy began today. It was a close game between ball and bat on the day 1. Despite the close contest between ball and the bat, the scores at the end of day 1 suggest the dominance of bowlers.

The match in Delhi, between Madhya Pradesh-Bengal and Kerala-Services, continued to struggle with nature. Bad light stopped play after just 2 sessions of the game. After losing 3 early wickets, Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sreevats Goswami helped Bengal reach 185/4 by the end of the day. The local derby between Andhra and Hyderabad saw the latter coming on top on day one. Chama Milind’s five-wicket haul was well supported by Ravi Kiran’s 4/33 that broke the back of Andhra batting.

Heavyweights Baroda and Uttar Pradesh locked horns at Nasik. Kuldeep Yadav frustrated the Baroda bowlers with an unbeaten 77 to take UP to 360/7. Playing against Karnataka, Maharashtra’s batting woes didn’t seem to end. They were bundled out cheaply yet again on 163. Vinay Kumar was the chief wrecker with 5/46. Goa skipper Sagun Kamat led from the front as he notched up a century against Himachal Pradesh. AN Khare was the other centurion of the day. Playing for Chhattisgarh, he scored a ton against Jammu and Kashmir.

PK Panchal’s century saved the day for Gujarat against Tamil Nadu. Pradeep Sangwan and Sumit Narwal bagged 4 wickets for Delhi against Saurashtra. Saurashtra bundled out for a paltry 92. Delhi, in response, struggled at 194/8. Shikhar Dhawan & Gautam Gambhir scored 16 runs each.

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

Brief Scores:

Tripura v Haryana – Tripura trail by 161 runs

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

Tripura 70/4 (B Ghosh 36, Smit Patel 26*, H Patel 2/8)

Punjab v Mumbai

Punjab 216/4 (U Kaul 86, Mandeep 78, S Yadav 2/3, Shardul 2/44)

Baroda v Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh 360/7 (Kuldeep 77*, A Nath 45, B Pathan 3/84, Mangalorkar 2/64)

Madhya Pradesh v Bengal

Bengal 185/4 (Easwaran 68*, Goswami 52*, Sakure 2/33, I Pandey 1/38)

Tamil Nadu v Gujarat

Gujarat 267/7 (Panchal 113, Raval 35, Aparajith 2/29, Natarajan 2/62)

Saurashtra v Delhi – Delhi lead by 102 runs

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

Delhi 194/8 (Pant 40, Sangwan 39*, KD Patel 4/59)

(Shikhar Dhawan & Gautam Gambhir scored 16 runs each)

Maharashtra v Karnataka – Karnataka trail by 96 runs

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

Karnataka 67/1

Vidarbha v Rajasthan – Vidarbha trail by 126 runs

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

Vidarbha 14/0

Hyderabad v Andhra – Hyderabad trail by 180 runs

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

Hyderabad 10/0

Himachal Pradesh v Goa

Goa 260/6 (Kamat 104, Misal 68*, Bipul 2/37)

Chhattisgarh v Jammu and Kashmir

Chhattisgarh 217/6 (AN Khare 106, A Singh 41*, S Beigh 4/56)

Kerala v Services

Services 103/4 (A Gupta 52*, Shamsher 23*, Ashraf 3/35)