Easy win for Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra in Ranji Trophy

Published>Thu, Nov 04 10 08:46 PM

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) A fighting century by Sridharan Sriram only delayed the inevitable for Assam as Tamil Nadu romped home by seven wickets in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match in Chennai Thursday and picked up five points.

Overnight 159 for four, Assam, courtesy a 112-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Sriram (121, 15 x 4) and Tarjinder Singh (99, 12x4), managed to stretch the game. But once the stand was broken, the rest collapsed for just 51 runs.

Seamer Sunil Sam came away with four for 56 after Lakashmipathy Balaji had done the initial damage with two crucial strikes on the third evening.

Tamil Nadu, needing just 120 runs for victory, then cantered through as openers Abhinav Mukund (32) and Anirudha Srikkanth (48) put on 64 runs. Though skipper Dinesh Karthik failed again, the hosts were not to be denied a win despite a 33-minute rain stoppage.

In Jammu, Maharashtra bowlers beat Jammu and Kashmir by 10 wickets at the Gandhi Memorial Science College Ground.

The hosts began the day on 134 for two but barring Arshad Bhatt (95) and Raman Dutta (47 not out), none of the Jammu batsman showed the stomach for fight and were bundled out for 347 in the second innings.

Needing just 26 runs to win, Maharashtra's openers clinched the victory in the seventh over.

Brief scores:

At New Delhi: Bengal 473 and 92/3 ( Aridam Das 36 not out, Shreevats Goswami 35; Chetanya Nanda 2-45; Delhi 459 (Virat Kohli 173 Rajat Bhatia 63, Sumeet Narwal 60; Ashok Dinda 4/-132, Ranadeb Bose 4-137. Match Drawn.

At Dharmasala: Haryana 316 and 249/5 decl (Nitin Saini 92, Manav Sharma 51; Mohinderraj Sharma 3-60); Himachal 206 and 168/2 (Sangram Singh 89, VA Indulkar 62 not out; Joginder Sharma 1-34). Match Drawn.

At Jammu: J&K 282 and 347 (Arshad Bhatt 95, Javed Ahmed 47; Akshya Darekar 4-50, Ganesh Gaekwad 2-93); Maharashtra 604 and 26/0 (Harshad Khadiwale 13 not out, Nikhil Paradkar 7 not out). Maharashtra won by 10 wickets.

At Jaipur: Hyderabad 21 (Pankaj Singh 2 for 11, Deepak Chahar 8 for 10) and 126 (Munagala Praneet Arjun 33, Pankaj 4 for 45, Chahar 4 for 54, Sumit Mathur 2 for 14) lost to Rajasthan 403 (Akash Chopra 65, Hemant Kanitkar 193 not out, Robin Bist 58, Alfred Absolen 5 for 78,Lalith Mohan 3 for 124) by an innings and 256 runs

At Meerut: Punjab 288 and 354/6 (Pankaj Dharmani not out 135, Vishwas Bhalla 76, Uday Kaul 74; Piyush Chawla 2 for 78); Uttar Pradesh 362 (Tanmay Shrivastava 35, Shivkant Shukla 39, Digvijay Singh 38, Mohammad Kaif 58, B. Kumar 35, P. Kumar 43, Navdeep Sidhu 4 for 128, Harmeet Singh 2/ 86, Rajwinder Singh 3/66). Match Drawn.

At Mumbai: Mumbai 580 and 207/2 (Wasim Jaffer 103 not out, Rohit Sharma 74 not out; Jayesh Odedra 1-8); Saurashtra 374 (Pratik Mehta 107 not out, Bhushan Chauhan 63, Dhurv 49, Ramesh Pawar 5 for 109). Match Drawn.

At New Delhi: Gujarat 379 (Neeraj Patel 46, Parthiv Patel 36, Bhavik Thaker 67, Pratharesh Parmar 42, Siddharth Trivedi 65, Krishnakant Upadhyaya 3 for 98, Jaiprakash yadav 2 for 102, Shailendra Gehlot 2 for 65); Railways 221 and 246 (V. Cheluvaraj 73, Sanjay Bangar 51; Siddharth Trivedi 2-55). Match Drawn.

At Nagpur: Andhra 370 (Hemal Watekar 77, L. N. Prasad 51, Satyakumar Varma 70, A.G. Pradeep 94, Umesh Yadav 2 for 73, Shrikant Wagh 5 for 77, Akshay Wakhare 2 for 99); Vidarbha 506/6 (Ranjeet Paradkar 154 not out, Amit Deshpande 92; Y Venugopal Rao, 4/130). Match Drawn.

At New Delhi: Kerala 454 and 7/0 (Abhishek Hegde 5 not out, VA Jagadeesh 2 not out); Services 407 (Soumyaranjan Swain batting 130, Yashpal Singh batting 66, Sony Cehruvathur 5/72). Match Drawn.

At Chennai: Assam 184 and 281 (S. Sriram 121, Tarjinder Singh 99; Sunil Sam 4-56); Tamil Nadu 346/9 decl and 123/3 (Abhinav Mukund 32, Srikkanth Anirudha 48; Arlen Konwar 2 for 25). Tamil Nadu won by seven wickets.

At Cuttack: Baroda 148 and 414/6 (Ambati Rayudu 200 not out, Connor Williams 57; Dheeraj Singh 3/109); Orissa 352 (Natraj Behera 55, Govind Podder 106, Rakesh Mohanty 43, Biplab Samatray 55, Alok Sahoo 30, Murtuza Vohora 3-71, Ajitesh Argal 3-91, Yusuf Pathan 2-55). Match Drawn.

At Agartala: Jharkhand 335 (Rameez Nemat 55, Ishank Jaggi 44, Shiv Gautam 44, Rahul Shukla 72, Wilkin Mota 2 for 80,Timir Chanda 2 for 59, Subal Chaudhury 2 for 72, Jayanta Debnath 2 for 64) beat Tripura 73 (Varun Aaron 5 for 17, Kuldeep Sharma 2 for 30, Samar Quadri 2 for 0) and 131 (Chanda 30, Rahul Shukla 3 for 33, Aaron 2 for 36 and Quadri 4 for 22) by an innings and 256 runs.

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