The second day of the fifth round of Ranji Trophy brought two surprising news as two of the Ranji Trophy games were cancelled due to the high volume of smoke, smog and fog in Delhi. The match officials saw no hope of any action neither at Feroz Shah Kotla nor at Karnail Singh Stadium, thus leading to the cancellation of two Ranji Trophy games. BCCI will soon announce a new schedule for these two cancelled games.
Let’s see what happened in rest of the games –
Group A
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— R P Singh (@RpSingh99) November 6, 2016
The Indian discarded batsman Yuvraj Singh, who is doing every possible effort to make a comeback in the Indian team, today, struck a not-out half-century on the second day of the game against Railways. Coming in at a safe position, Yuvraj along with Uday Kaul shared 96 runs for the third wicket before Uday Kaul was caught by Kuldeep Yadav off Saurabh Kumar. Currently, Punjab is in a safe position and has a real chance of taking away three points from the game by taking first innings lead.
Brief scores:
Uttar Pradesh 335 (Kuldeep Yadav 71; Sandeep Sharma 5-85)lead by 91 runs vs Punjab 244/3 (Yuvraj Singh 72*;Saurabh Kumar 3-59) at Hyderabad.
Baroda 93 & 44/0 (Kedar Devdhar 33*) trail by 337 runs vs Tamil Nadu (Abhinav Mukund 100; Munaf Patel 4-91) at Raipur.
Mumbai 345 (Suryakumar Yadav 110; Karn Sharma 5-81) lead by 269 runs vs Railways 76/3 (Ashish Singh 22; Vijay Gohil 2-25) at Mysore.
Gujarat vs Bengal at Delhi: Game cancelled due to unfavourable conditions.
Group B
Chasing a huge target of 493 up by Jharkhand in the first innings, Delhi had a jittery start losing 3 wickets with a score of 74 on the board before the former vice-captain of India U-19 team, Rishabh Pant, once again came to rescue by scoring a century at a quite fast pace. At the time of stumps, Rishabh Pandit was batting on a score of 107* on just 84 balls. His innings included 8 sixes and 7 fours.
Earlier in the day, resuming his batting from a score of 162*, Ishant Kishan went on to add 111 runs to his yesterday’s total before getting out on a score of 262 on the board alongside his name.
Brief Scores:
Jharkhand 493 (Ishan Kishan 273; Subodh Bhati 3-80) lead by 268 runs vs Delhi 225/3 (Rishabh Pant 107*; Anand Singh 1-8) at Thumba.
Karnataka 267 and 108/3 (R Samarth 45*; Lalit Yadav 2-60) lead by 19 runs vs Vidarbha 176 (Jitesh Sharma 61; Shreyas Gopal 3-22) at Vadodara.
Rajasthan 323 (SF Khan 110; Govinda Poddar 3-59) lead by 180 runs vs Odisha 143/8 (Deepak Behera 49*, Aniket Choudhary 4-34) at Patiala.
Saurashtra 121/9 (Jaydev Unadkat 31*; Arup Das 7-39) vs Assam at Kolkata.
Group C
The Indian all-rounder, Rishi Dhawan, made most of the noise in Group C scoring an unbeaten half century against Jammu and Kashmir at Ranchi. His innings came at the right time as the Indian team is looking for a fast bowling all-rounder and he can be the go-to man for them. Not to forget, Rishi Dhawan grabbed a 7 wicket haul in the last game and has now followed with a half century. Currently, he is on the list of best all-rounders in Ranji Trophy and has to follow with these performances to get a chance in the Test squad.
Brief Scores:
Jammu & Kashmir 162 and 39/0 trail by 169 runs vs Himachal Pradesh 370 (Paras Dogra 89; Aamir Aziz 4-56) at Ranchi.
Services 400/8 (Shamser Yadav 136; Dwaraka Ravi Teja 2/24) vs Andhra Pradesh at Indore.
Chattisgarh 198 (Amandeep Khare 60; Rituraj Singh 6-60) lead by 71 runs vs Goa 127/6 (Samar Dhubhasi 38*; Kant Singh 3-27) at Cuttack.
Haryana 303 (Rohit Sharma 92; Sandeep Warrier 5-80) lead by 123 runs vs Kerala 180/1 (Vishnu Vinod 58; Harshal Patel 1/25) at Jaipur.
Gujarat vs Bengal at Delhi: Game cancelled due to unfavourable conditions.