Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Round 1: As it happened...

Hello and welcome to our Live updates from Day 1 of Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Round 1

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5:09 pm IST 

Stumps Day 1: Madhya Pradesh - 268/5 in 87.3 overs (Devendra Bundela 99 off 225, Shubham Sharma 88 off 201)

Stumps Day 1: Uttar Pradesh - 9/0 in 8.6 overs (Himanshu Asnora 7 off 25, Shivam Chaudhary 2 off 29)

Stumps Day 1: Bengal - 341/3 in 88.6 overs (Sudip Chatterjee 114 off 178, Wriddhiman Saha 32 off 48)

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04:59 pm IST

Stumps Day 1: Andhra - 8/0 in 2.6 overs (D B Prashanth Kumar 1 off 15, K S Bharat 7 off 3)

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04:56 pm IST

Stumps Day 1: Himachal - 459/2 in 89.6 overs  (P S Chopra 271 off 289, P K Dogra 99 off 124)

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04:23 pm IST

End Innings: Railways - 182/10 in 75.6 overs  (Deepak Bansal 6 off 13, Ashish Yadav 53 off 85)

P S Chopra 250 runs in 265 balls  (35x4, 1x6) Himachal 417/2

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04:13 pm IST

WICKET! Over: 60.1 Varun Aaron 7(15) st Mohammed Azharuddeen b Akshay Chandran, Jharkhand 158/8

End Of Over 80 - Himachal 401/2 P S Chopra 239(257) P K Dogra 75(96)

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04:12 pm IST

Round I - Group A -  Day 1 - Hyderabad vs Maharashtra - No play due to rain in Hyderabad

End Of Over 60 - Jharkhand 158/7 Sunny Gupta 11(49) Varun Aaron 7(14)

Himachal 400/2 in 79.2 Overs

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03:30 pm IST

Bhargav Bhatt 4 WICKETS! (22.5-5-37-4), Tamil Nadu 140/9

Railways 150/8 in 63.2 Overs

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03:25 pm IST

P S Chopra 203 runs in 215 balls  (30x4, 1x6) Himachal 340/2

End Of Over 70 - Chhattisgarh 176/5 Kaif 45(108) Manoj Singh 22(77)

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03:20 pm IST

Tea break: Jharkhand - 146/6 in 49.6 overs  (Sunny Gupta 9 off 12, Ishan Kishan 43 off 91)

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02:45 pm IST

Tea break: Bengal - 198/2 in 57.6 overs  (Manoj Tiwary 33 off 55, Sudip Chatterjee 44 off 82)

Tea break: Madhya Pradesh - 160/4 in 59.6 overs  (Devendra Bundela 43 off 132, Shubham Sharma 42 off 129)

Tea break: Himachal - 308/2 in 61.6 overs  (P K Dogra 42 off 48, P S Chopra 180 off 197) 

Tea break: Tamil Nadu - 133/8 in 62.6 overs  (Rahil Shah 4 off 47, B Aparajith 46 off 119)

Tea break: Assam - 136/5 in 60.6 overs  (Gokul Sharma 44 off 127, Sarupam Purkayastha 17 off 30)

Tea break: Chhattisgarh - 169/5 in 64.6 overs  (Kaif 42 off 96, Manoj Singh 18 off 59)

Tea break: Saurashtra - 154/5 in 56.6 overs  (Prerak Mankad 7 off 49, Chirag Jani 1 off 22)

Tea break: Railways - 139/8 in 58.6 overs  (Anureet Singh 4 off 9, Ashish Yadav 28 off 33) 

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02:15 pm IST

WICKET! Over: 50.2 Sheldon Jackson 51(59) b A H Hooda, Saurashtra 150/5

P S Chopra 150 runs in 172 balls  (23x4, 1x6) Himachal 261/2

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01:55 pm IST

End Of Over 50 - Tamil Nadu 114/8 Rahil Shah 0(3) B Aparajith 31(85) 

End Of Over 30 - Jharkhand 89/4 Saurabh Tiwary 21(61) Ishan Kishan 20(35) 

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01:20 pm IST

End Of Over 20 - Jharkhand 57/4 Saurabh Tiwary 11(26) Ishan Kishan 2(10) 

End Of Over 40 - Madhya Pradesh 116/4 Shubham Sharma 21(72) Devendra Bundela 23(69)

End Of Over 40 - Bengal 125/2 Sudip Chatterjee 4(25) Manoj Tiwary 0(3) 

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12:48 pm IST

WICKET! Over: 34.1 R Ashwin 9(17) b Ayyappa Bandaru, Tamil Nadu 88/5 

Chhattisgarh 100/3 in 33.1 Overs

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12:05 pm IST

Lunch break: Team Rajasthan - 78/1 in 34.6 overs  (Robin Bist 24 off 65, A V Gautam 44 off 108)

Lunch break: Himachal - 157/1 in 33.6 overs  (S L Verma 68 off 96, P S Chopra 84 off 101)

Lunch break: Tamil Nadu - 88/4 in 33.6 overs  (R Ashwin 9 off 16, B Aparajith 20 off 46) 

Lunch break: Railways - 61/2 in 32.6 overs  (Arindam Ghosh 12 off 42, Nitin Bhille 18 off 59)

Lunch break: Jharkhand - 39/2 in 12.6 overs  (Md Nazim Siddiqui 16 off 37, Saurabh Tiwary 6 off 6) 

Lunch break: Madhya Pradesh - 92/4 in 32.6 overs  (Devendra Bundela 9 off 52, Shubham Sharma 13 off 47)

Lunch break: Saurashtra - 76/2 in 31.6 overs  (Cheteshwar Pujara 24 off 56, Sheldon Jackson 0 off 5)

Lunch break: Chhattisgarh - 99/3 in 32.6 overs  (Rishabh Tiwari 45 off 102, Ashutosh Singh 2 off 10)

Lunch break: Bengal - 99/1 in 31.6 overs  (Sudip Chatterjee 0 off 4, A R Eswaran 45 off 80) 

Lunch break: Assam - 65/3 in 30.6 overs (Tarjinder Singh 4 off 13, Gokul Sharma 10 off 37)

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12:00 pm IST

WICKET! Over: 30.6 Abhishek Kumar Raman 40(110) b Sachidanand Pandey, Bengal 97/1

Himachal 150/1 in 32.3 Overs 

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11:56 am IST

End Of Over 30 - Bengal 97/0 A R Eswaran 44(78) Abhishek Kumar Raman 40(102)

End Of Over 30 - Chhattisgarh 95/3 Ashutosh Singh 0(1) Rishabh Tiwari 43(93) 

End Of Over 30 - Saurashtra 76/1 Cheteshwar Pujara 24(49) K M Parmar 35(96)

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11:54 am IST

WICKET! Over: 29.5 A N Khare 9(26) ct Samar Dubhashi b Darshan Misal, Chhattisgarh 95/3

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11:52 am IST

WICKET! Over: 9.6 Virat Singh 15(28) ct Monish Kareparambil b Jalaj Saxena, Jharkhand 22/2

End Of Over 10 - Jharkhand 22/2 Virat Singh 15(28) Md Nazim Siddiqui 5(25) 

End Of Over 30 - Railways 56/2 Arindam Ghosh 8(31) Nitin Bhille 18(52) 

End Of Over 30 - Madhya Pradesh 87/4 Devendra Bundela 9(45) Shubham Sharma 8(36)

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11:50 am IST

End Of Over 30 - Himachal 140/1 S L Verma 62(86) P S Chopra 73(87) 

WICKET! Over: 26.5 Sibsankar Roy 11(42) ct Unmukt Chand b Ishant Sharma, Assam 57/3

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11:47 am IST

End Of Over 30 - Tamil Nadu 75/4 B Aparajith 15(37) R Ashwin 1(1)

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11:26 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Assam 45/2 Gokul Sharma 0(3) Sibsankar Roy 5(23) 

WICKET! Over: 21.4 Abhimanyu Chauhan 37(58) Run Out Darshan Misal, Chhattisgarh 72/2

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11:16 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Chhattisgarh 66/1 Rishabh Tiwari 31(65) Abhimanyu Chauhan 31(52)

WICKET! Over: 2.1 Babul Kumar 0(8) ct Mohammed Azharuddeen b Warrier, Jharkhand 5/1

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11:15 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Saurashtra 43/1 Cheteshwar Pujara 8(18) K M Parmar 18(68) 

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11:13 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Bengal 68/0 Abhishek Kumar Raman 30(73) A R Eswaran 27(47)

S L Verma 53 runs in 59 balls  (7x4, 0x6) Himachal 103/1

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11:10 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Madhya Pradesh 74/4 Devendra Bundela 2(11) Shubham Sharma 3(10)

End Of Over 20 - Himachal 95/1 S L Verma 45(56) P S Chopra 45(57) 

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11:05 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Tamil Nadu 45/3 Kaushik Gandhi 8(39) B Aparajith 0(8) 

End Of Over 20 - Railways 36/2 Nitin Bhille 5(16) Arindam Ghosh 1(7) 

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10:50 am IST

End Of Over 20 - Team Rajasthan 32/1 A V Gautam 23(62) Robin Bist 3(21)

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10:40 am IST

Jharkhand win toss, opt to bat

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10:30 am IST

Service vs Bengal 26/0

Himachal Pradesh 21/1 vs Punjab

Madhya Pradesh 26/1 vs Baroda

Haryana vs Saurashtra 21/0

Tamil Nadu 14/0 vs Andhra

Delhi vs Assam 13/0

Uttar Pradesh vs Railways 12/0

Rajasthan 11/0 vs Jammu and Kashmir

Goa vs Chhattisgarh 14/1

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9:30 am IST

Railways elect to bat vs Uttar Pradesh

Delhi opt to field vs Assam

Tamil Nadu opt to bat vs Andhra

Saurashtra elect to bat vs Haryana

Baroda elect to field vs Madhya Pradesh

Himachal elect to bat vs Punjab

Services elect to field vs Bengal

Chattisgarh opt to bat vs Goa

Maharashtra vs Hyderabad delayed due to wet outfield

Kerala vs Jharkhand delayed due to rain

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New Delhi: The 84th edition of Ranji Trophy that begins on Friday will see a plethora of Indian cricket stars in action besides the return of the home and away format.

India play their next Test from November 16 and that has allowed the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin and Cheteshwar Pujara to get some additional match practice and contribute to their state team's campaign in the premier domestic tournament.

Besides Ashwin, the presence of Test opener Murali Vijay will further bolster Tamil Nadu, who play their tournament opener at home against Andhra. Abhinav Mukund, 
India's reserve opener in the recent Test series against Sri Lanka will captain Tamil Nadu.

Pujara, who like Ashwin had a fruitful county stint in England, will captain Saurashtra in the absence of Jaydev Shah. Giving him company will be left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, who suddenly finds himself out of the national ODI and T20 squad.

Test keeper Wriddhiman Saha and pacer Mohammed Shami will turn up for Bengal in the team's first-round match against Services at Palam.

Ishant Sharma, India's leading speedster not so long ago, will lead the Delhi squad with Gautam Gambhir declining captaincy for another season.

The tournament is definitely high on international flavour and what should make it more interesting for the fans is the return of the home and away format after the failed experiment of neutral venues last year.

The move to play at neutral venues turned out to be a logistical nightmare while big names like Mukund and Axar Patel also complained of lack of apathy of the state
the association which was hosting the game.

Irfan Pathan, who is set to lead Baroda again, welcomed the return of the traditional format but said the neutral venue concept was worth a try.

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