Ranji Trophy 2016/17, Round 6 Round Up

The last day of Round 6 of Ranji Trophy 2016/17 proved to be a day of results and exciting cricket. Jharkhand and Maharashtra had already completed innings victory on the penultimate day and Andhra today followed the trend with a victory by an innings and 38 runs against Tripura.

Karnataka was the first team to register a victory today. They were just 4 wickets short of a win against Rajasthan and got them conceding just 13 more runs in the first hour of play. Skipper Vinay Kumar’s 5-wicket haul pave the way for Karnataka’s massive victory by a margin of 393 runs. This is Karnataka’s 4th victory in a row and are way ahead of any other side in the points table.

Bowlers continued to enjoy a good day in Mysore. Mumbai completed their second consecutive win dismissing UP for only 173 in the final innings today while defending 295. Hyderabad had the most inspiring day with the ball today which led them to a remarkable victory. They took 11 wickets today, enforced the follow-on on Services and then easily chased down the target of 20 in the final hour of the day to achieve a 10 wicket victory. Similarly, in Nagpur, Railways completed their win without any fuss scoring the remaining 23 runs early in the morning.

Even the drawn games in the competition were well fought. While Jammu and Kashmir batted throughout the day losing only 3 wickets against Haryana, Goa turned the tables on Kerala while chasing 325. They came agonisingly close, within 46 runs of the target and for the first time, had their foot on Kerala’s neck with the help of a quick fire 151 from Sagun Kamat. The game between Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh also proved to be a see-saw ride. In the end, both the teams would be happy to end the game with a clinical draw.

Parthiv Patel lit up Vadodara in a drawn game. He scored an unbeaten 139 in only 170 balls to let Gujarat have a final crack at MP batsmen but Harpreet Singh’s 103* secured the draw for MP. The game in Rajkot was already heading towards a draw but it was remained to be seen that which team will acquire the first innings lead points. Tamil Nadu’s tailenders added 23 runs today to take Tamil Nadu over Bengal’s first innings total.

Brief Scores:

(Group A)

Uttar Pradesh v Mumbai, Mysore

Mumbai: 233 all out (Suryakumar Yadav 99, Kuldeep Yadav 4/46)

UP: 225 all out (Rinku Singh 70, Tushar Deshpande 3/66)

Mumbai: 286 all out (Suryakumar Yadav 90,Saurabh Kumar 3/48)

UP: 173 all out (Aditya Dhumal 5/53, Vishal Dhabolkar 4/43)

Mumbai won by 121 runs

Railways v Baroda, Nagpur

Baroda: 183 all out (Dhiren Mistry 50, Avinash Yadav 5/55)

Railways: 310 all out (Saurabh Wakaskar 104, Atit Sheth 4/54)

Baroda: 239 all out (Deepak Hooda 98, Avinash Yadav 3/50)

Railways: 113/3 (Shivakant Shukla 56*, Swapnil Singh 3/39)

Railways won by 7 wickets

Gujarat v Madhya Pradesh, Vadodara

Gujarat: 302 all out (Manpreet Juneja 79, Chandrakant Sakure 4/65)

MP: 252 all out (Rajat Patidar 71, Rush Kalaria 4/72)

Gujarat: 324/6d (Parthiv Patel 139*, Samit Gohel 104, Ishwar Pandey 4/69)

MP: 176/5 (Harpreet Singh 103*, Rush Kalaria 3/38)

Match Drawn

Bengal v Tamil Nadu, Rajkot

Bengal: 337 all out (Sudip Chatterjee 100, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh 4/70)

TN: 354 all out (Dinesh Karthik 80, Sayan Ghosh 5/123)

Bengal: 196/9 (Shreevats Goswami 61, Washington Sundar 3/29)

Match Drawn

(Group B)

Saurashtra v Jharkhand, Agartala

Saurashtra: 277 all out (Prerak Mankad 96, Ashish Kumar 4/52)

Jharkhand: 467 all out (Ishank Jaggi 173, Ishan Kishan 136, Khushang Patel 5/95)

Saurashtra: 144 all out (Samar Quadri 4/46)

Jharkhand won by an innings and 46 runs

Odisha v Assam, Hyderabad

Assam: 301 all out (Kunal Saika 135, Basant Mohanty 3/18)

Odisha: 459/7d (Govinda Poddar 225, Biplab Samantray 103)

Assam: 164/4 (Rishav Das 68)

Match Drawn

Maharashtra v Vidarbha, Kolkata

Vidarbha: 59 all out (Anupam Sanklecha 7/25)

Maharashtra: 332 all out (Naushad Shaikh 127, Ankit Bawne 111, Lalit Yadav 5/81)

Vidarbha: 270 all out (Shrikanth Wagh 69*, Anupam Sanklecha 7/69)

Maharashtra won by an innings and 3 runs

Karnataka v Rajasthan, Vizianagaram

Karnataka: 374 all out (Mayank Agarwal 81, Tanveer-Ul-Haq 5/82)

Rajasthan : 148 all out (Vinay Kumar 4/28, Sreenath Aravind 4/36)

Karnataka: 298/6d (KL Rahul 106, Rajesh Bishnoi 4/87)

Rajasthan 131 all out (Vinay Kumar 5/54)

Karnataka won by 393 runs

(Group C)

Hyderabad v Services, Mumbai

Hyderabad: 580/9d (Bavanaka Sandeep 203*, Chama Milind 136, Raushan Raj 5/73)

Services: 360 all out (Shamsher Yadav 104, Nakul Verma 90, Ravi Kiran 3/68)

Services: 239 all out (Ravi Kiran 4/32)

Hyderabad: 20/0

Hyderabad won by 10 wickets

Kerala v Goa, Mumbai

Kerala: 342 all out (Rohan Prem 130, Bhavin Thakkar 117, Rituraj Rajeev Singh 7/42)

Goa: 286 all out (Shadab Jakati 85, Vinod Kumar 4/68)

Kerala: 268/8 (Rohan Prem 71, Saurabh Bandekar 5/74)

Goa: 279/5 (Sagun Kamat 151, Iqbal Abdulla 4/66)

Match Drawn

Jammu and Kashmir v Haryana, Cuttack

Haryana: 502 all out (Rajat Paliwal 194, Nitin Saini 90)

Jammu and Kashmir: 262 all out (Pranav Gupta 94, Sanjay Pahal 4/66)

Jammu and Kashmir: 249/3 (Shubham Khajuria 110*, Pranav Gupta 80, Mohit Sharma 3/21)

Match Drawn

Andhra v Tripura, Valsad

Tripura: 171 all out (Paidikalva Vijaykumar 4/56)

Andhra: 524/6d (Hanuma Vihari 233*, Prasanth Kumar 129)

Tripura: 315 all out (Paidikalva Vijaykumar 4/84, Ashwin Hebbar 4/85)

Andhra won by an innings and 38 runs

Chhattisgarh v Himachal Pradesh, Kanpur

Chhattisgarh: 238 all out (Amandeep Khare 85, Bipul Sharma 3/61)

Himachal Pradesh: 314 all out (Bipul Sharma 86, Sumit Sureshrao Ruikar 7/112)

Chhattisgarh: 309/9d (Abhimanyu Chauhan 109)

HP: 139/7 (Rishi Dhawan 41*, Ajay Mandal 3/51)

Match Drawn