It was the most interesting day of Ranji Trophy matches. Many matches will be decided. In Group C Kerala beat Saurashtra by 45 runs. The star of the show was Monish picking 5 for 46 runs. In Group B Railways defeated Andhra Pradesh by 148 runs and Mumbai beat Madhya Pradesh by 3 wickets to qualify for the quarter-finals.
The main contribution with the bat were 146 for Haryana against Rajasthan, Ian Dev Singh scoring 115 for Jammu and Kashmir against Goa, Bista, Abdulla and Shardul Thakur were only batsmen with key contributions in the second innings for Mumbai against Madhya Pradesh, Mandeep Singh and Uday Kaul scoring 80’s for Punjab against Uttar Pradesh.
The main contributions with ball include Monish taking 5 for 46 in the second innings for Kerala against Saurashtra, Anureet Singh picking 4 for 32 in the second innings for Railways against Andhra Pradesh.
Group A
Haryana 112 (Pankaj Singh 4/10, Bhatia 3/41) and 287 for 6( Nitin Saini 146, Hooda 56, Pankaj Singh 3/73) lead Rajasthan 279(Mohit Sharma 5/56)by 120 runs Stumps At Lahli
Delhi 301(Gambhir 75, Manan Sharma 56, Rawal 54) and f/o 22 for 0 trails Karnataka 542(Uthappa 148, Mayank Aggarwal 118, M Pandey 81) by 219 runs vs Delhi in Hubali
Maharashtra 160 for 6 (Tripathi 52, Krishna Das 4/58) trail Assam 298 (Karthik 130, Gokul Sharma 76, Mundhe 4/67) by 138 runs Stumps At Pune
Group B
Tamil Nadu vs Gujarat no play on all three days because of rain Stumps in Tirinuveli
Mumbai 162 ( Saxena 5/66, Ankit Sharma 5/80) and 283 for 7(Bista 74, Tare 45, Abdulla 39*, Shadrul 38*) beat MP 240 (Bhatia 59, Jaiswal 4/63) and 201(Saxena 79) by 3 wickets
Punjab 272(Siddana 85, Khera 73, Praveen Kumar 4/81, Rajpoot 3/45) and 244 for 6 lead (Mandeep Singh 84, U Kaul 89*) UP 226(Umang 49, Kaul 4/82) by 285 runs Stumps Kanpur
Railways 182 (Kishore 5/76) and 204 (A Yadav 62) beat Andhra 114 (Karn Sharma 5/30) and 123( Bharat 32, Anureet Singh 4/32) by 148 runs
Group C
Kerala 166(D Jadeja 5/44) and 105(D Jadeja 6/59, Jivarajani 4/31) beat Saurashtra 157 and 69(Monish 5/46) (Vyas 54*, Monish) by 45 runs
Tripura 237(A Das 73, Murasingh 51, Ravi Kiran 3/45, Milind 3/50) and f/o 25 for 0 trails Hyderabad 548 for 5 decl (Vihari 219, Sandeep 93, Anirudh 78)by 286 runs At stumps in Hyderabad
Jammu and Kashmir 325 for 5(Ian Dev Singh 115, Manhas 95*) trail Goa 552 for 5 decl (Asnodkar 232 Desai 106, Kamat 105)227 runs vs Jammu and Kashmir in Jammu.