Arun Kumar, Bharadwaj slam tons as Karnataka pile runs

Scoreboard

Karnataka (1st innings): Sujith Somasundar lbw Dheeraj 6, J Arun Kumar c Jha b Tariq 135, Tilak Naidu b Dheeraj 0, Vijay Bharadwaj c Arfi b Tariq 124, GK Anil Kumar batting 26, A Vijay batting 25. Extras (lb1, nb5): 6. Total (for four wickets in 90 overs, 369 mins) 322.

Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-18, 3-261,4-284

Bowling: Panda 17-3-66-0, Dheeraj 17-1-54-2, Vikas Kumar 21-0-105-0, Sarfraz 23-3-70-0, Tariq 12-0-26-2

Saurashtra restricted

INDORE: Medium-pacer Jai Prakash Yadav and leg spinner Narendra Hirwani forced Saurashtra to limit their score on 234 for eight on the first day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Super League match played at the Usha Raje Stadium here today.

After being put into bat, Saurashtra were struggling when the stumps were drawn for the day with the ninth wicket pair Hitesh Goswami (19) and Niraj Odedara (2) at the crease.

Scoreboard

Saurashtra (1st innings): Sudhir Tanna lbw Yadav 60, Altaf Merchant lbw Sodhi 1, Sitanshu Kotak lbw Yadav 23, Bimal Jadeja c Sodhi b Yadav 32, Hitesh Parsana lbw Sodhi 10, Prakash Bhatt c Yadav b Hirwani 28, Manoj Parmar c Khurasia b Yadav 26, Yusuf Bambhania lbw Hirwani 6, Hitesh Goswami batting 19, Niraj Odedara batting 2. Extras 31. Total (for 8 wickets in 90 overs) 238

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-52, 3-135, 4-140, 5-167, 6-204, 7-212,8-234.

Bowling: Sodhi 17-2-44-2, Bundela 16-3-52-0, Pandey 19-3-60-0, Yadav 27-12-50-4, Hirwani 11-1-24-2

Railways struggle

NEW DELHI: Railways have not had a decent start to their batting in all their previous three Ranji Trophy Group B Super League matches. It was no different against Delhi at the Ferozeshah Kotla here today.

Within 23 overs after electing to bat, their top four batsmen were back in the pavilion for a meagre 37 runs. Medium-pacer Amit Bhandari accounted for three of them while the other went to Robin Singh. But some resolute batting by Vishal Sharma (69: 241m, 11×4) and Devender Singh (64: 168m, 7×4, 1×6) and their 123-run stand for the fifth wicket raised visions of a revival in the afternoon session before both perished one after the other.

Some sloppy catching and indifferent bowling by the hosts helped the Railways reach 208 for seven at the end of the first day.

Scoreboard

Railways (1st Innings): Sanjay Bangar c Dani b Bhandari 4, Zufri Zakaria b Robin Singh7, Abhay Sharma c Dahiya b Bhandari 2, Yere Goud c Dahiya b Bhandari 13, Vishal Sharma lbw Sehwag 69, Devender Singh b Sanghvi 64, Murali Kartik batting 16, Balaji Rao batting 0. Extras (b10, lb10, nb6): 26. Total (for 7 wkts, 90 overs): 208.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-12, 3-26, 4-37, 5-160, 6-183, 7-203.

Bowling: Nehra 16-8-26-0, Bhandari 15-3-43-4, Robin Jr 11-2-24-1, Chopra 21-6-36-0, Sanghvi 16-7-34-1, Sehwag 6-1-18-1, Ajay Sharma 5-1-7-0.

Kumaran nails Orissa

CHENNAI: Orissa batsmen put up a pathetic performance crumbling to Tamil Nadu medium-pacer T Kumaran (6-56) for a paltry 194 by tea on the first day of the Group B Ranji Super League match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here today.

After losing veteran opener WV Raman, recalled after being dropped in the previous outing against Railways, for a second successive duck in as many matches, opener Anand George (49: 149m, 6×4) and left-hander Hemang Badani (33: 129m, 5×4), saw the day through as TN reached 96-1.

Scoreboard

Orissa(1st innings): SS Das c Badani b Kumaran 1, P Jayachandra c Sharath b Robin Singh 58, P Mullick c Paul b Kumaran 0, Sanjay Raul b Kumaran 5, Rashmi Ranjan Parida c Vasu B Robin Singh 7, Pradeep Das c Paul b Kumaran 15, Gautam Gopal c Devanand B Kumaran 71, Sanjay Satpathy lbw Kumaran 0, Shaheed Khan c George b Mahesh 5, Debashish Mohanty c Paul b Mahesh 11, Ajay Barik (not out) 3. Extras (lb7, b5, nb6): 18. Total (all out in 57.1 overs): 194.

Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-3, 3-27, 4-55, 5-93, 6-106, 7-106, 8-136, 9-170.

Bowling: Devanand 11-3-44-0, Kumaran 18.1-4-56-6, Mahesh 16-4-45-2, Robin Singh 11-3-37-2, Vasu 1-1-0-0.

Tamil Nadu (1st innings): Anand George batting 49, WV Raman c Gopal b Mohanty 0, Hemang Badani batting 33. Extras (b8, nb6): 14. Total (for one wicket in 33 overs, 149 mts): 96.

Fall of wicket: 1-7.

Bowling: Mohanty 9-4-10-1, Barik 9-3-24-0, Jayachandra 3-0-18-0, Mullick 3-2-2-0, Satpathy 5-2-7-0, Khan 2-0-18-0, Raul 2-0-9-0.

Sridhar, Kishore excel

HYDERABAD: A superb 138-runfourth wicket partnership between former skipper MV Sridhar (83 batting) and Nanda Kishore (83) helped Hyderabad score 232 for five against Rajasthan at close on the first day’s play of their four-day Ranji Trophy Super League cricket match here today.

Hyderabad opting to bat on a perfect batting wicket lost three of their frontline batsman Arvind Shetty (0), the out of form VVS Laxman (12) and Daniel Manohar (40) with 93 runs on the board. Then came the rescue act between Sridhar and Nanda Kishore.

Scoreboard

Hyderabad (1st innings): Arvind Shetty b Shamsher Singh 0, Daniel Manohar c Jain b Jai Kumar Sharma 40, VVS Laxman c Manish Singh b Shamsher Singh 7, Nanda Kishore c&b Jai Kumar Sharma 83, MV Sridhar batting 83, Vanka Pratap c Khoda b Kapoor 0; Extras: (b4, lb8, nb6, w1) 19. Total (for 5 wickets in 89.3 overs) 232

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-12, 3-93, 4-231, 5-232

Bowling: Shamsher Singh 8-3-20-2, P Krishna Kumar 8-2-17-0, Anshu Jain 3-1-6-0, Gagan Khoda 2-0-3-0, Anup Dave 13-0-41-0, JaiKumar Sharma 24-3-57-2, Aashish Kapoor 24.3-5-56-1, Rahul Kanwat 7-1-20-0

Rathour slams ton

VADODARA: A skipper’s knock of 120 (184b, 224m, 12×4) by Vikram Rathour on a wicket that began taking turn in the first hour itself guided Punjab to a commanding position of 309-6 on the first day of the Group A Ranji Super League match against Vadodara at the IPCL ground on Thursday.

Electing to bat after winning the toss, Punjab batsmen notched 142 runs in the first session itself. All six wickets to fall in the day were claimed by spinners, three by Darshan Mulherkar, two by Rayapet Swaroop and one by Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.

Scoreboard

Punjab (1st innings): Vikram Rathour c Arothe b Mulherkar 120, Navjot Singh Sidhu c Chawda b Mulherkar 35, Pankaj Dharmani c Martin b Siva 33, Dinesh Mongia c Martin b Swaroop 6, Amit Sharma batting 55, Harminder Jugnu c Martin b Swaroop 34, Harman Harry c Swaroop b Mulherkar 0, Sandip Sharma batting 12; Extras: (b6, lb5, nb3) 14. Total: (for six wickets in90 overs) 309

Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-166, 3-187, 4-211, 5-265, 6-266

Bowling: Chawda 6-0-24-0, Kadri 6-0-33-0, Mulherkar 26-7-64-3, Swaroop 25-0-80-2, Sivaramakrishnan 15-1-56-1, Arothe 12-1-41-0