In reply to Delhi’s first innings of 452 runs, Tamil Nadu team also gave a tough fight in the Ranji Trophy match and took a 42-run lead in the match. The entire team of Tamil Nadu got out after scoring 494 runs. Shahrukh Khan (194 runs) and Baba Inderjit (117 runs) scored centuries for the team. At the same time, Narayan (50) also strengthened the team by scoring a half-century. Delhi bowler Vikas took the maximum 6 wickets. While Nitish Rana got 2 wickets. Yash Dhul (113 runs) and Lalit Yadav (177 runs) scored centuries in Delhi’s first innings.
Abdul Samad’s second fastest century, Rasool’s five-wicket haulJammu and Kashmir has tightened its grip against Puducherry. By the end of the third day’s play, Puducherry scored 113 runs for 9 wickets. Puducherry’s batting faltered thanks to Parvez Rasool’s brilliant bowling (5 wickets, 29 runs). Earlier, J&K scored a mammoth total of 426 runs thanks to a brilliant fast century (103 runs, 78 balls) by Abdul Samad. Samad broke the record held by Naman Ojha (100 runs, 69 balls) by scoring a century in just 68 balls. Samad hit 19 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. Samad has been bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 4 crore in the IPL auction. Samad has become the second Indian batsman to score the fastest century in the history of Ranji. Rishabh Pant is at number one in this case, who scored a century in 48 balls against Jharkhand in 2016. Puducherry scored 343 runs in the first innings.
Vidarbha strong with Faiz and Akshay’s century innings
Vidarbha grabbed the match by scoring 548 for 6 in the first innings on the third day against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji match. The team of UP had scored 301 runs in the first innings. In this way, Vidarbha got a lead of 247 runs in the first innings. Faiz Fazal (192 runs) and Akshay Wadkar (102 not out) provided strength to the team from Vidarbha. Apoorva Raghunath (96 runs) and Apoorva (66 runs) also played well. On the third day, the UP bowlers were seen battling for the wicket. Only spinner Saurabh Kumar took 3 wickets, while Ankit got 2 wickets. In the second innings, UP scored 32 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. Priyam (18 runs) and Karn Sharma (2 runs) are present at the crease.
Punjab scored 526 runs, Himachal’s five wickets fell for 151
new Delhi. On the third day, the Punjab batsmen scored a mammoth score of 526 runs at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Punjab also took a lead of 171 runs. Himachal had scored 354 runs in the first innings. Prabhsimran Singh played a fine innings of 123 runs (138 balls, 21 fours, 1 six) for Punjab. At the same time, Abhishek (98 runs) and Mandeep Singh (84 runs) also supported well. For Himachal, Arpit Guleria got 4 wickets and Mayank got 2 wickets. Himachal did not start well in the second innings and Prashant Chopra (8) went on 15 runs. After this Abhimanyu (38 runs) and Nikhil (42 runs) tried to handle the innings. At the end of the day’s play, Himachal have lost five wickets for 151 runs and are 21 runs behind. Punjab bowler Mayank Merkand took 2 wickets and Baltej, Ashwini and Arshdeep took 1-1.
Uttarakhand need 39 runs to win
Uttarakhand has moved closer to victory in Ranji’s Elite Group E match. He needs 39 runs against Services. Services were all out for 204 in the second innings, thanks to a stellar performance by the Uttarakhand bowlers. Apart from Hardik Sethi (56 runs), none of the players could score big. Chasing the target of 133 runs, Uttarakhand scored 94 runs for 1 wicket till the end of the day’s play. Jai Bisht is unbeaten on 54. Only one wicket has fallen in the form of Kamal Singh (23 runs). For Uttarakhand, Services could not score more runs due to the 3 wickets of Dishanshu Negi and 2 wickets of Swapnil Singh. In the first innings as well, the team was all out for 176, then Deepak Dhapola (4 wickets) helped the team to get out cheaply. Dishanshu then took 2 wickets.
Bishal and Samit of Tripura played a century innings
In the Elite Group F match, the Tripura team, chasing a mammoth target of 556 runs for Haryana, showed a belligerent game, making 304 for 4 wickets till the third day. The entire day of the match was in the name of batsmen Bishal Ghosh (136 not out) and Samit (122 runs). For Haryana, the bowlers were not effective except Jayant Yadav (3 wickets). Tripura is still 252 runs behind. Earlier, Haryana’s Yash Sharma (129 runs), Nishant (93 runs) and Kapil (84 runs) could make a strong score due to the fine innings.