It was the start of the 7th round in the Ranji Trophy. There were some excellent performances by indidvual players with bat and ball which made all the differences for their state teams.
In the batting department Netraj Behra and Ranjit Singh scored centuries for Odisha against Haryana, Devadhar remained not out on 132 for Baroda against Punjab; Prashant Chopra also remained not out on 120 for HP against Sauhrastra, Chatterjee scored 135 not out for Services against Hyderabad
While in the bowling department the main contribution was Rahul Shukla picking 6 for 40 for Jharkhand against Tripura, Krishna Das picking 4-32 for Assam against Delhi, Thakur picking 4-38 for Mumbai against Railways and Umesh Yadav picked 4 wickets including a hattrick for Vidarbha against Rajasthan . Here we look at the brief summary of Day 1.
Group A
Assam 1st innings-69 for 3 (Gokul Sharma 22*) trail Delhi 149(Manan Sharma 46*, Milind 45, Gambhir 4, Krishna Das 4/32, Arup Das 3/49 by 80 runs Stumps At Guwhati
Odisha 1st innings- 280 for 1(Natraj Behra 143*, Ranjit Singh 109*) Stumps vs Haryana At Lahli
Bengal 1st innings-239 for 3(Easwaran 65, Mondal 58) vs Stumps Maharashtra At Pune
Rajasthan 1st innings-216 all out (Yadav 67 Dobal 51 *, Umesh Yadav 4/45 Wakhare 3-59) vs Stumps Vidarbha At Nagpur
Group B
Baroda 1st innings-344 for 3(Devadhar 132*, Waghmode-96) vs Punjab Stumps At Vaddora
Gujarat 1st innings-252 for 6 (Merai 40, Juneja 61, Bhatt 51 Datey 2/51) vs Madhya Pradesh Stumps at Surat
Mumbai 1st innings-4/2 trail Railways 217(Ghosh 67, Thakur 4/ 38 by 213 runs Stumps At Mumbai
Uttar Pradesh 1st innings -277 for 4(Shaukat 88, Umang Sharma 73, Raina 88*) vs TN At Kanpur
Group C
Kerala 1st innings-224 for 5 (Jagdeesh 61, Fernandez 51*) vs Goa Stumps At Porovim
Himachal Pradesh 1st innings-310 for 3 (Prashant Chopra 168*) vs Sahurasta Stumps at Rajkot
Jharkhand 1st innings-42 for 1 trail Tripura 166( Rahul Shukla 6/40 by 124 runs )Stumps At Agartala
Services 1st innings-244 for 3 ( Chatterjee 135*) vs Hyderabad Stumps At Delhi