On the basis of captain Virat Singh (108) century and Kumar Suraj (83) half-century, Jharkhand scored 403 runs in its first innings against Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match being played in Pune. Virat had played 108 run innings for Jharkhand on Friday. Virat hit eight fours and three sixes in his innings. Kumar Suraj also hit 11 fours and one six in his innings. On Saturday, Shahbaz Nadeem scored 41 runs, Rahul Shukla scored 28 runs and Varun scored 29 runs. For Maharashtra, Hiten Walunj scored 91 runs and took six wickets. Ashay Palkar gave two wickets for 64 runs, while Pradeep Dadhe and Ramakrishna Ghosh took one wicket each. In reply, Maharashtra had scored 149 runs at the loss of one wicket by the end of the second day’s play. At the time of stump, Pawan Shah was at the crease with 64 runs and Naushad Sheikh with 63 runs.
Bhuvneshwar took eight wickets against Bengal
New Delhi. UP has made a comeback in Ranji Trophy due to the strong performance of Bhuvneshwar Kumar in Kanpur. Uttar Pradesh’s first innings against Bengal was reduced to 60 runs. Bengal, who came to bat, had a good start, but Bhuvneshwar took eight wickets for 41 runs in 22 overs. Due to this, Bengal team was out for 188 runs. UP has scored 46 runs in the second innings without losing any wicket.
Arjun’s stormy batting
Arjun Tendulkar has impressed everyone with his batting for Goa against Chandigarh. He scored 70 runs in 60 balls, due to which Goa declared the first innings at 7/618 runs. Suyash Prabhudesai scored 197 runs for Goa.
Chhattisgarh has 103 run lead over Bihar
Against Bihar in Patna, Chhattisgarh scored 211 runs for one wicket and took a lead of 103 runs at stumps. Rishabh Tiwari is batting on 98 and Ashutosh Singh is batting on 81 runs. Bihar team was reduced to 108 runs in the first innings on the first day. In Guwahati, Kerala finished the first innings at 419 runs with a century from Sachin Baby (131) and half-centuries from Rohan Kunnumal (83), Krishna Prasad (80) and Rohan Prem (50). After this he took two wickets to reduce Assam to 14 runs at stumps.