Group A
The fast and fierce pitch of Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket stadium left each and every batsman astounded on day 1 of the seventh round of Ranji Trophy 2016/17. It was a green track which had everything for fast bowlers and it was a dream track for a player like Ashok Dinda. A total of 23 wickets fell on day 1 of the contest between Bengal and Baroda where Baroda drew the first blood by gaining first innings lead.
Bengal skipper Manoj Tiwary won the toss and had no hesitation to bat first. He straightway handed the new ball to strike bowler Ashok Dinda who scalped 6 wickets after the Mukesh Kumar and AS Kuila sent back the openers to deliver the first blow. Baroda was bundled out on a mere score of 97. Soon Bengal got a taste of their own bread as Baroda bowlers too made most out of the track dismissing Bengal on just 76, gaining what can be called as the mammoth lead of 21 runs. Baroda batsmen had a difficult task to again come out to bat but this time they did well as at stumps they had already posted 63 runs for a loss of three wickets. They possess a huge lead of 84 runs and will be looking to drag it somewhere around 150. It will be an uphill task for Bengal to even chase a score of 100 runs on this track.
Brief scores:
Baroda 97 (Aditya Waghmode 17; Ashoke Dinda 6-45) & 63/3 (Kedar Devdhar 34*; Mukesh Kumar 2-22) lead by 84 runs vs Bengal 76 (Sudip Chatterjee 37; Atit Sheth 7-36) at Lahli.
Gujarat 246/3 (P Panchal 122*; Vishal Dabholkar 2-61 vs Mumbai) at Karnataka.
Punjab 241/6 (Manan Vohra 73; K Vignesh 3-89 vs Tamil Nadu) at Nagpur.
Madhya Pradesh 249/2 (Nitin Bhille 102*; Saransh Jain 1-40 vs Railways) at Delhi.
Group B
Kedar Jadhav, the Maharashtra skipper played an aggressive knock of 115 runs in the group B match against Assam. Coming out to bat at number 4, Jadhav stitched a partnership of 183 runs along with Naushad Shaikh to put team Maharashtra in a comfortable position. Jadhav scored 115 runs befoe getting dismissed whereas Nashaud Shaikh missed out on scoring a century as Abu Nachim Ahmed dismissed him just 3 runs before the three figure mark. If Naushad would have scored that 3 runs, it would have been his third century in just six first-class innings.
Brief Scores:
Saurashtra 301 (Sheldon Jackson 116; Rajneesh Gurbani 4-85) lead by 297 runs vs (Vidarbha 4/0) at Delhi (Karnail Singh Stadium)
Maharashtra 352/5(Kedar Jadhav 115, Naushad Sheikh 97; Syed Mohammad 2-63 vs Assam) at Chennai.
Rajasthan 238 (Amitkumar Gautam 106; Navdeep Saini 3-28, Vikas Tokas 3-48) lead by 201 runs vs (Delhi 37/0) at Goa.
Karnataka 179 (CM Gautam 54; Basant Mohanty 3-46) lead by 137 runs vs (Odisha 42/2) at Delhi (Palam A Ground).
Group C
The discarded Indian batsman Subramaniam Badrinath scored a brilliant ton to sale his team to a comfortable position against Chhatisgarh. He came at the crease when Hyderabad was one down with a score of 2 but soon, he along with Tanmay Agarwal batted according to the need of the hour and shared 120 runs for the second wicket to rescue the team from a tough and tight situation. Hyderabad was sitting on a comfortable score of 267/4 at stumps.
Brief Scores:
Hyderabad 267/4 (S Badrinath 134, B Sandeep 73*; Abhimanyu Chauhan 2-22) vs Chhattisgarh at Valsad.
Kerala 188/8 (Mohammed Azharuddeen 82; P Vijay Kumar 6-37) vs Andhra at Guwahati.
Services 276/4 (Ravi Chauhan 149, Nakul Verma 113*; Pankaj Jaiswal 2-55, Rishi Dhawan 2-60) vs Himachal Pradesh at Surat.
Jammu & Kashmir (Aditya Pratap 65*, Ian Chauhan 59; MB Mura Singh 2-59, Rana Datta 2-61) vs Tripura at Mumbai (BKC).
Goa 197/6 (Snehal Kauthankar 80*; Harshal Patel 3-52, Amit Mishra 2-61) vs Haryana at Ghaziabad.