BARODA, February 5: Hosts Baroda were struggling at 212 for eight off 91 overs at close on the opening day of their four-day Group B Ranji Trophy Super League cricket match against Haryana at the IPCL Grounds here today.Baroda won the toss and elected to bat first. Off spinner Pankaj Thakur, once again proved his worth, picking up three for 60.Baroda lost their opening batsman RA Swaroop with just three runs on the board. Swaroop was caught by Shafiq khan off medium pacer Vineet Jain. Moinuddin Quadri and left hander Connor Williams then added 55 runs for the second wicket before Qadri was caught by Amarjeet Kaypee off Thakur. Williams added another 47 runs for the third wicket with in-form batsman Jacob Martin before being Thakur's second victim for the highest score of 40 Soon after Martin was run out for 21, Baroda lost skipper Tushar Arothe and Atul Bedade in quick succession and were reeling at 135 for six off 62.4 overs before Nayan Mongia (28), Darshan Mulherkar (35) and Satyajit Parab (23batting) gave some respectability.SCOREBOARD:Baroda: M Qadri c Kaypee b Thakur 29; RA Swaroop c Khan b Jain 0; C Willams c Kaypee b Thakur 40; J Martin run out 21; T Arothe b Jain 8; N Mongia b Kumar 28; A Bedade lbw Thakur 4; S Parab batting 23; D Mulherkar c Yadav b Singh 35; K Hazare batting 0;Extras: (14nb, 2w, 1lb, 7b) 24.Total: (for eight wickets) 212Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-58, 3-105, 4-109, 5-121, 6-135, 7-151, 8-207.Bowling: V Jain 10-3-15-1; Manish Kumar 20-3-59-1; Dhanraj Singh 6-0-15-1; P Jain 30-11-55-1; Thakur 25-7-60-3.
