Delhi continued its impressive show on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy game against Railways. Starting the day with a score of 318/6, Delhi added 129 runs to their overnight total.
Manan Sharma and Pulkit Narang batted quite patiently in the opening hours, adding crucial runs to the total. Soon, Manan added the 32 required runs to his total and reached his first first-class century. He has had eight half-centuries in his account, and it was the first time when he reached the three figure mark. Incidentally, he has played as an opener for Delhi in the past as well but never reached this milestone. Soon, Pulkit Narang also reached his maiden-half century.
After Manan’s dismissal on a score of 428, Delhi could just add 19 more runs and was dismissed for 447 in 144.5 overs.
Just like Delhi, Railways too had a poor start as Ishant Sharma uprooted the stumps of opener Saurabh Wakaskar on the first delivery of home side’s innings. He followed up with another wicket of Nitin Bhille in the in the fifth over, to pull the confidence of Railways down.
A couple from Manan Sharma further depleted the Mahesh Rawat led side and a wicket in the second last over from Ishant was the last thing which they could have asked.
At stumps, Railways were on a score of 58/5, trailing by a margin of 389 runs.
Group A –
Delhi: 447/10 vs Railways 58/5 (Shivakant Shukla 29; Ishant Sharma 3-12, Manan Sharma 2-18) in Delhi
Karnataka: 427/6 (Krishnappa Gowtham 147*, Ravikumar Samarth 123; Swarupam Purkatastha 3-80, Arup Das 3-10) vs Assam 145/10 in Mysore.
Hyderabad vs Uttar Pradesh: Day two washed out due to wet outfield in Hyderabad
Group B –
Saurashtra: (Ravindra Jadeja 201, Sheldon Jackson 181; Waseem Raza 3-164) vs Jammu and Kashmir 103/4 (Shubham Khajuria 41, Parvez Rasool 23*; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 3-36) in Rajkot.
Kerala: 208/10 vs Gujarat 307/9 (Chirag Gandhi 91*, Samit Gohel 69; MD Nisheesh 3-58, Jalaj Saxena 3-95) in Nadiad.
Rajasthan: 423/10 vs Jharkhand 97/2 (Saurabh Tiwary 56*, Virat Singh 28*; Aniket Choudhary 1-16, Pankaj Singh 1-26) in Jaipur
Group C –
Tripura: 258/10 vs Tamil Nadu 332/2 (Washington Sundar 156*, Baba Indrajith 73* Gurinder Singh 1-61) in Chennai
Baroda: 373/10 vs Andhra Pradesh (Hanuma Vihari 71*, Ricky Bhui 53*; Atit Sheth 1-41) in Vadodara
Madhya Pradesh: 409/10 vs Mumbai 130/1 (Jay Bista 89*, Siddhesh Lad 22*; Ankit Kushwah 1-29) in Indore
Group D –
Goa: 255/10 vs Himachal Pradesh 356/4 (Prashant Khanduri 117, Ankush Bains 143; Feliz Alemao 2-83) in Dharamsala
Punjab: 161/10 vs Vidarbha 419/5 (Sanjay Ramaswamy 161, Ganesh Satish 126*; Abhishek Sharma 2-110) in Mohali
Bengal: 529/7 vs Chhattisgarh 80/5 (Ashutosh Singh 51*, Manoj Singh 11; Ashok Dinda 2-6, Mohammed Shami 2-33) in Raipur