An eventful Day 3 of the 2017-18 Ranji Trophy Round 1 witnessed Railways defending 93 runs to beat Uttar Pradesh by 21 runs in a Group A encounter. Saurashtra and Kerala also registered comfortable wins in their respective group matches even as only two overs were bowled at Cuttack on Sunday. (DAY 3 - REPORT)


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But the honours for registering first win this season go to Saurashtra. They beat Haryana by innings & 31 runs. Huge win.


Brief scores: Saurashtra 278 (Prerak Mankad 68, Sheldon Jackson 51; Ashish Hooda 6-61) beat Haryana 107 (Rahul Tewatia 23; Shaurya Sanandia 4-44, Kushang Patel 3-21, Jaydev Unadkat 3-35) & 140 f/o (Chaitanya Bishnoi 56; Jaydev Unadkat 3-55, Chirag Jani 2-12) by an innings & 31 runs.


Kerala also registered a convincing win today, beating Jharkhand by nine wickets.


Brief scores: Jharkhand 202 (Ishan Kishan 45; Jalaj Saxena 6-50) & 89 (Saurabh Tiwary 26*; Jalaj Saxena 5-27, Karaparambil Monish 4-42) lost to Kerala 259 (Jalaj Saxena 54*, Mohammed Azharuddeen 51; Sunny Gupta 6-94) and 34/1(Arun Karthik 27*) by 9 wickets.


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Railways beat Uttar Pradesh 21 runs. Stunning win. They defended 93, bowling UP 72 in 26 overs.


Here is the brief score: BRailways 182 (Ashish Yadav 53*; Ankit Rajpoot 3-30) & 161 (Arindham Ghosh 57; Ankit Rajpoot 4-34) beat Uttar Pradesh 250 (Akshdeep Nath 75; Anureet Singh 3-42) & 72 (Suresh Raina 29; Avinash Yadav 4-26) by 21 runs.


5:55 pm IST


Stumps Day 3:


Goa - 223/4 in 96.6 overs (S S Bandekar 5 off 19, Reagan Pinto 25 off 88)


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Stumps Day 3:


Assam - 60/3 in 30.6 overs (Sibsankar Roy 28 off 82, Tarjinder Singh 8 off 43)
Bengal - 77/0 in 10.6 overs (A R Eswaran 31 off 32, Abhishek Kumar Raman 40 off 34)
Baroda - 41/1 in 16.6 overs (Aditya Waghmode 31 off 49, Kedar Devdhar 7 off 53)
Tamil Nadu - 112/2 in 53.6 overs (B Aparajith 15 off 58, Abhinav Mukund 54 off 137)
J&K - 432/6 in 151.6 overs (Punit Bisht 2 off 26, Samiullah Beigh 1 off 20)
Punjab - 484/6 in 121.6 overs (Abhishek Sharma 81 off 143, Abhishek Gupta 129 off 115)
Tripura - 6/0 in 1.6 overs (U U Bose 2 off 6, B B Ghosh 4 off 6)


5:20 pm IST


End Of Over 90 - Goa 203/3, Trail By 255 Runs, Reagan Pinto 19(70) Darshan Misal 20(42)


04:37 pm IST


Tamil Nadu 100/2 in 47.4 Overs


Abhinav Mukund 50 runs in 121 balls  (4x4, 0x6) Tamil Nadu 100/2 


04:29 pm IST


End Of Over 20 - Assam 30/3, Trail By 147 Runs, Tarjinder Singh 0(14) Sibsankar Roy 10(45) 


04:22 pm IST


Punjab 450/6 in 111.1 Overs


WICKET! Over: 143.2 Parvez Rasool 97(126) ct A V Gautam b S K K Ahmed, J & K 428/5 


04:17 pm IST


Uttar Pradesh 50/7 in 19.2 Overs


End Of Over 110 - Punjab 442/6, Trail By 287 Runs, Abhishek Sharma 66(96) Abhishek Gupta 102(90)


04:12 pm IST


End Innings: Services - 359/10 in 111.2 overs  (Diwesh Gurdev Pathania 8 off 5, Sachidanand Pandey 0 off 0)


Aamir Gani 5 WICKETS! (34.2-5-109-5), Services 359/10


03:50 pm IST


Odisha Won the Toss & elected to Field


02:50 pm IST


Tea break: Tamil Nadu - 56/1 in 26.6 overs  (Abhinav Mukund 25 off 64, B Indrajith 10 off 20)


Tea break: J & K - 359/4 in 119.6 overs  (Aditya Partap 6 off 25, Parvez Rasool 54 off 67)


02:28 pm IST


End Innings: Delhi - 435/10 in 135.3 overs  (Kulwant Khejroliya 0 off 6, Navdeep Amarjeet Saini 9 off 19)


Kerala Won by 9 Wicket(s)


02:18 pm IST


Abu Nechim Ahmed 7 WICKETS! (23.3-5-68-7), Delhi 435/10


01:58 pm IST


Yusuf Pathan 104 runs in 113 balls  (12x4, 6x6) Baroda 233/4


01:50 pm IST


G K Singh 5 WICKETS! (18.4-5-58-5), Punjab 274/6 


Jalaj Saxena 5 WICKETS! (20.3-6-27-5), Jharkhand 89/10


01:30 pm IST


Punjab 250/4 in 74.1 Overs


Goa 100/1 in 40.5 Overs


WICKET! Over: 37.4 Varun Aaron 2(22) ct K B Arun Karthick b Jalaj Saxena, Jharkhand 71/8


01:06 pm IST


I K Pathan 52 runs in 87 balls  (6x4, 3x6) Baroda 170/4


12:08 pm IST


Lunch break: J & K - 249/2 in 91.6 overs  (Ian Chauhan 31 off 66, Pranav Gupta 49 off 147)


Lunch break: Baroda - 139/4 in 45.6 overs  (Yusuf Pathan 58 off 78, I K Pathan 27 off 74)


Lunch break: Services - 208/3 in 72.6 overs  (Rahul Singh Gahlaut 24 off 22, N K Singh 85 off 208)


12:05 pm IST


Lunch break: Punjab - 207/3 in 63.6 overs  (Anmolpreet Singh 21 off 44, Gurkeerat Mann 26 off 33)


Lunch break: Railways - 106/4 in 46.6 overs  (Arindam Ghosh 49 off 131, Abhishek Kumar Yadav 7 off 12)


Lunch break: Goa - 87/1 in 31.6 overs  (Sumiran Amonkar 48 off 103, Sagun Kamat 8 off 10) 


Lunch break: Delhi - 383/6 in 115.6 overs  (Anuj Rawat 58 off 104, Manan Sharma 42 off 63) 


Lunch break: Jharkhand - 50/5 in 27.6 overs  (Kaushal Singh 4 off 15, Saurabh Tiwary 6 off 14)


12:00 pm IST


End Innings: Andhra - 309/10 in 123.4 overs  (B Sumanth 109 off 277, Prithvi Raj Yarra 2 off 4)


11:55 am IST


WICKET! Over: 123.4 B Sumanth 109(280) ct M S Washington Sundar b R Ashwin, Andhra 309/10 


R Ashwin 4 WICKETS! (33.4-12-71-4), Andhra 309/10


11:15 am IST


B Sumanth 100 runs in 254 balls  (5x4, 1x6) Andhra 293/8


End Of Over 100 - Delhi 319/6, Lead By 61 Runs, Anuj Rawat 19(50) Manan Sharma 17(20) 


10:55 am IST


Saurashtra Won by an innings and 31 Run(s) (Winners)


10:46 am IST


WICKET! Over: 72.3 Ahmad Omar Banday 102(205) ct T M Ul Haq b M K Lomror, J & K 192/2


WICKET! Over: 92.6 Pulkit Narang 15(60) ct Tarjinder Singh b Krishna Das, Delhi 297/6 


09:46 am IST


WICKET! Over: 88.3 Nidheesh M D 9(23) b Ashish Kumar, Kerala 259/9 


End Of Over 60 - J & K 159/1, Trail By 171 Runs, Ahmad Omar Banday 80(168) Pranav Gupta 18(58) 


Abu Nechim Ahmed 4 WICKETS! (13.3-2-39-4), Delhi 270/5


09:35 am IST


End Of Over 30 - Haryana 95/6, f/o Trail By 76 Runs, Deepak Punia 2(2) C K Bishnoi 53(96)


End Of Over 40 - Services 103/1, Trail By 449 Runs, N K Singh 44(124) Amit Pachhara 2(33)



New Delhi: Rising batsman Prashant Chopra brought up his maiden triple ton to guide Himachal Pradesh to a mammoth 729/8 declared in their first innings against Punjab on the second day of the Ranji Trophy 2017-18 Group D opener at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala on Saturday.


Chopra (338) added 61 runs to his tally on the day, clobbering the Punjab bowlers 44 times to the fence and twice over it. Earlier, veteran Paras Dogra (99) missed out on his ton, after falling prey to pacer Sandeep Sharma.


Later, incoming middle order batsman Ankush Bains (80) and Rishi Dhawan (49) played crucial knocks to add to their team's tally.


For Punjab, Sharma (4/149) was the most successful bowler of the side.


In reply, Punjab were off to a good start posting 110/1 at stumps with opener Pargat Singh unbeaten on 64.


Meanwhile, in Group A, India pacer Ishant Sharma, who bowled well for Delhi on the opening day bagged two more wickets to return figures of 5/38 helping his side restrict Assam to 258 runs at the Feroz Shah Kotla.


In response, veteran opener Gautam Gambhir (136 not out) and middle-order batsman Nitish Rana (110) brought up brilliant centuries to help the hosts to 269/4 at stumps.


In another Group A match, after bowling hosts Uttar Pradesh out for 250, the Railways started their second innings on a sour note losing three wickets for 27 at stumps, to trail by 41 runs.


The Railways were bundled out for a paltry 182 in their first essay on the opening day at the Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.


In the third match of the group, rain forced the abandonment of the second day's play between Hyderabad and Maharashtra at the Gymkhana Ground in Hyderabad, after the first day's play was called off due to similar conditions.


In Group B, Saurashtra held the upper hand against hosts Haryana. After being bundled out for a mere 107 in their first innings, Haryana were struggling at 93/6, still trailing by 78 runs in their second essay after being asked to follow-on.


Saurashtra medium-pacer Shaurya Sanandia picked up (4/44) and (2/15) in the first and second innings respectively.


Earlier, Saurashtra had posted 278 in their first innings at the Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium at Lahli.


In another Group B tie, Kerala took the upper hand posting 250/8 at stumps, to lead by 48 runs against Jharkhand on the second day at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram.


Earlier, Jharkhand were bundled out for 202 runs, thanks to Kerala off-spinner Jalaj Saxena's (6/50), first fifer of this Ranji season.


In another match of the same group, Jammu and Kashmir opener Ahmed Bandy (72 not out) helped his side reach 150/1 in reply to Rajasthan`s first innings total of 330 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.


Bandy's unbeaten 157-ball innings was laced with 10 boundaries and one six. Pranav Gupta (17 not out) was the other batsman at the crease when the bails were removed for the day.


In Group C, Baroda started on a bad note, losing early wickets, posting 36/2 at stumps against Madhya Pradesh at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore.


Kedar Devdhar (20) and Pinal Shah (15) went undefeated at stumps.


Earlier, Madhya Pradesh posted a mammoth 551/8 with middle-order batsman Shubham (196) missing out on his double ton and Ankit Sharma (104) scoring a well made century.


In another Group C tie at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, half-century knocks from Bodapati Sumanth (72 not out) and Ashwin Hebbar (64) helped Andhra Pradesh post 231/7 at stumps, taking a 55-runs lead over Tamil Nadu.


The second day's play of the Group C match between Odisha and Tripura was once again washed out without a single ball being bowled at the Vikas Cricket Ground in Cuttack.


In Group D, Goa started steadily, posting 28/0 at stumps, to trail by 430 runs against Chhattisgarh at the Goa Cricket Association Academy Ground in Porvorim.


Earlier, batsmen Manoj Singh (125), Jatin Saxena (82) and Sumit Ruikar (57) helped Chhattisgarh post 458 runs.


In another Group D tie, the Services were off to a good start posting 103/1 on board, trailing by 449 runs against Bengal at the Palam ground here.


Navneet Singh (44 not out) and Ravi Chauhan (42) helped the Services get off to a sound start after Bengal declared their first innings on 552/9. 


Oct 06 - Oct 09


Rajasthan vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group B
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur


Odisha vs Tripura, Group C
Vikas Cricket Ground, Bhubaneswar


Delhi vs Assam, Group A
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi


Uttar Pradesh vs Railways, Group A
Ekana International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow


Hyderabad vs Maharashtra, Group A
Gymkhana Ground, Hyderabad


Haryana vs Saurashtra, Group B
Ch Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak


Kerala vs Jharkhand, Group B
Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram


Madhya Pradesh vs Baroda, Group C
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore


Tamil Nadu vs Andhra, Group C
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai


Services vs Bengal, Group D
Palam A Stadium, Delhi


Goa vs Chhattisgarh, Group D
Goa Cricket Association Academy Ground, Porvorim


Himachal Pradesh vs Punjab, Group D
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala