Internet Desk: On the opening day of Ranji Trpohy 2016 season, Tamil Nadu bowled out to Mumbai with scoring just 87 runs in their first innings on Thursday. Dhawal Kulkarni and TU Deshpande both took 4 wickets each for Mumbai. At the end of day’s play Mumbai were 85 for 4.
In Gujarat vs Baroda match, riding on Aditya Waghmode’s unbeaten century, Baroda reached 285 for two against Gujarat on the opening day of their Group A Ranji Trophy encounter.
Put in to bat by Gujarat, Baroda got off to an excellent start with their opening batsmen — Kedar Devdhar (65) and Waghmode (103 not out) — adding 117 runs for the first wicket.
Waghmode, whose unbeaten knock came off 217 balls including 15 boundaries, shared two crucial partnerships.
After a solid opening stand with Devdhar, Waghmode coupled with Deepak Hooda to put on an unbroken 118-run partnership for the third wicket.
At the close of play, Hooda, unbeaten on 76, was giving company to Waghmode.
For Gujarat, Jasprit Bumrah and Priyank Panchal took wicket a piece.
On the other hand skipper Jaydev Shah led from the front with an unbeaten hundred as Saurashtra reached 269 for five against Rajasthan on the opening day of their Group B Ranji Trophy encounter.
Put in to bat by Rajasthan, Saurashtra were not off to a great start and their top-three batsmen were sent back to the pavillion with just 30 runs on the board.
However, Shah and Sheldon Jackson (76) pulled the team out of trouble with a 119-run fourth-wicket stand which lasted 25.2 overs.
It ended with Jackson being caught by Rajat Bhatia off medium pacer Aniket Choudhary, who ended the day as Rajasthan’s top wicket-taker with a haul of 2/25.
But his departure did not affect Shah, who forged a 79-run stand with Samarth Vyas (27). Shah has so far struck 23 fours in his 141-ball unbeaten knock.
Brief Scores : 1.Tamil Nadu 87 all out (Dhawal Kulkarni 4/31, Tushar Deshpande 4/25), Mumbai 85/4
- Madhya Pradesh 292/7,(Harpreet Singh 112*) vs Uttar Pradesh
- Baroda 285/2,(Aditya Waghmode 103*) vs Gujarat
- Railways 257/5,(Shivakant Shukla 117*) vs Punjab
- Assam 132/6,(Varoon Sood 2/29) vs Delhi
- Maharashtra 210 all out (Varun Aroon 4/47), Jharkhand 33/2
- Odhisa 134/6,(Srikanth Wagh 2/13) vs Vidarbha
- Saurashtra 269/5,(Jaydev Shah 120*) vs Rajasthan
- Himachal Pradesh 318/7,(Sumeet Varma 116*) vs Andhra
- Tripura 118 all out,(Ajay Mandal 3/41), Chhattishgarh 77/3
- Goa 164 all out,(Mohammed Siraj 4/14), Hyderabad 28/1
- Services 143/6,(Rajat Paliwal 2/11) vs Haryana
- Kerala 263/7 ,(Sanju Samson 129* )