Jacob cracks double century

Martin, unbeaten on 99 overnight, completed his fourth hundred of the tournament this season with a single off the third ball of the day pushing Ranadeb Bose to backward square leg. His hundred came in 276 minutes of 238 balls.

The other overnight not out batsman, skipper Tushar Arothe also completed his ton about half an hour into the day’s play. Arothe took 234 minutes and faced 185 balls to reach the three figure mark.

SCOREBOARD

Baroda (first innings): (265-3 overnight) Connor Williams c Karim b Bose 3, Rayapath Swaroop lbw Bose 62, S Parab run out 8, Jacob Martin b Gavaskar 242, Tushar Arothe c Karim b Das 114, Atul Bedade cKarim b Bose 0, Himanshu Yadav c Karim b Banerjee 6, Milap Mewada c Shiv Sagar b Banerjee 2, Darshan Mulhakar c Ahmed b Gavaskar 68, Yogendra Wakaskar c Karim b Das 5, Ashiah Tandon not out 9; Extras (b9, lb3, wb8, nb2): 22. Total (all out in 174.4 overs): 541

Fall Of Wickets: 1-12, 2-53, 3-108, 4-318, 5-325, 6-352, 7-372, 8-493, 9-498

Bowling: Banerjee 37-11-116-2, Bose 34-6-77-3, Mazumdar 24-7-102-0, Shiv Sagar 28-3-90-0, Das 29-6-86-2, Gavaskar 22.4-5-58-2.

Bengal (first innings): Nikhil Haldipur batting 15, D Dasgupta batting 5; Extras (nb2): 2. Total (for no loss in seven overs): 22

Bowling: Wakaskar 2-0-12-0, Tandon 3-1-10-0, Swaroop 2-2-0-0.

Delhi well poised

PUNE: Delhi were 86 without loss against hosts Maharashra at close of play on the second day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Super League cricket tie being played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here today.

Devendra Sharma (37) and Ashu Dani (37) were at the crease at stumps. Delhi thuswiped off the 63 runs first innings deficit without losing any wicket.

SCOREBOARD

Delhi (first innings): 156

Maharashtra (first innings): (Overnight 93-3) Hemant Kinikar c Sharma b Bhandari 15, Surendra Bhave c Malhotra b Bhandari 9, Abhijit Kale c Joshi b Chopra 114, Shantanu Sugvekar c Malhotra b Sanghvi 17, Satyen Lande c Dani b Robin Singh (Jr) 6, Siddharth Godbole lbw Sanghvi 26, Sanjay Kondhalkar run out 0, Sachin Nair b Bhandari 7, Asutosh Agashe lbw Robin Singh Jr 6, Milind Kulkarni c Malhotra b Bhandari 9, Umesh Gotkhidikar not out 0; Extras: (b4, lb2, nb7): 13. Total (all out in 87.2 overs, 352 min): 221.

Fall Of Wickets: 1-12, 2-47, 3-71, 4-106, 5-176, 6-184, 7-206, 8-211, 9-221, 10-221.

Bowling: Singh Jr 22.2-7-55-2, Bhandari 19-1-67-4 (4nb), Malhotra 3-0-6-0 (1nb), Sanghvi 16-2-41-2 (1nb), Chopra 16-4-31-1, Sehwag 11-3-16-0 (1nb).

Delhi (second innings): Devender Sharma batting 37, Ashu Dani batting 37; Extras (b4, lb5, nb3): 12. Total (for noloss in 33 overs, 149 mins): 86.

Bowling: Nair 9-0-29-0 (1nb), Kulkarni 8-4-16-0, Gotkhindikar 5-0-11-0, Godbole 2-0-8-0 (1nb), Lande 5-1-7-0, Agashe 4-1-6-0 (1nb).

MP hold sway

BHILAI: Madhya Pradesh spinners dominated the second day’s proceedings here at the Jayanti Stadium today. The trio of Test discard off-spinner Rajesh Chauhan, leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani and Sunil Lahore put the hosts close to get a vital first innings lead against Karnataka in their four-day Ranji Trophy Super League tie as the visitors were 248 for six, still trailing by 87 runs.

SCOREBOARD

Madhya Pradesh (first innings): 335

Karnataka (first innings): (Overnight 4 without loss) Sujith Somasunder c Abbas Ali b Lahore 40, J Arun Kumar b Chauhan 45, Fazal Khaleel c Chauhan b Lahore 25, Vijay Bhardwaj c Sahu b Hirwani 45, A Vijay batting 35, Thilak Naidu b Chauhan 0, S Shiraguppi c Chauhan b Hirwani, Anand Yalvigi batting 27; Extras (b5, lb3, nb14): 22; Total (for ix wickets): 248.

Fall OfWickets: 1-80, 2-102, 3-159, 4-177, 5-182, 6-193.

Bowling: Lahore 22-4-51-2, Chauhan 31-7-73-2, Sodhi 6-1-20-0, Yadav 3-1-7-0, Hirwani 30-5-86-2, Bundela 2-0-3-0.

Tanna strikes ton

RAJKOT: While most of the Saurashtra batsmen have been having rollicking affairs with success this season, Sudhir Tanna has maintained a single status all through. Today on the second day of the Group C Ranji Trophy Super League encounter against Haryana, Tanna finally broke off with failure to sustain the hosts’ recent association with domination.

Tanna’s 101 run effort at the RMC ground here helped Saurashtra finish at 215-3 and also belittle Haryana’s first innings total of 338. This was Tanna’s eighth Ranji hundred and his 44th match also saw him complete 3,000 runs in this domestic event.

SCOREBOARD

Haryana (1st innings): (overnight 318-7)

Jitender Singh c Bambhania b Parsana 65, Nitin Goel c Parsana b Rana 4, Parinder Sharma b Garsondia 1, Amarjeet Kaypee c Parmar b Rana 1, Rajesh Puri lbwParsana 33, Ajay Jadeja c Garsondia b Chavda 136, Ajay Ratra c Merchant b Bambhania 0, Dhanraj Singh c Parsana b Kotak 52, Pankaj Thakur c&b Parsana 32, Sonu Sharma st Parmar b Parmar 1, Vinit Jain not out 0; Extras (1b, 4lb, 2w, 6nb): 13. Total (all out in 101.2 overs): 338.

Fall Of Wickets: 1-4, 2-9, 3-10, 4-75, 5-134, 6-147, 7-244, 8-319, 9-336.

Bowling: Garsondia 12-5-30-1, Rana 20-3-72-2 (1w), Chavda 16-4-51-1 (6nb), Merchant 2-0-14-0, Parsana 32.2-5-113-4, Bambhania 12-2-28-1, Kotak 7-1-25-1 (1w).

Saurashtra (1st innings): Sudhir Tanna c Kaypee b Thakur 101, Altaf Merchant lbw Thakur 61, Sitanshu Kotak c Jitender Singh b Thakur 31, Rajesh Garsondia batting 1 (18m, 5b); Extras (3lb, 2w, 16nb): 21. Total (in 75.5 overs): 215-3.

Fall Of Wickets: 1-169, 2-208, 3-215.

Bowling: Jadeja 14-3-39-0, Jain 14-1-58-0 (1w, 14nb), Dhanraj 13-1-29-0 (1w, 2nb); Sharma 17-5-38-0, Thakur 17.5-3-48-3.

Orissa take control

PATIALA: An unbrokensecond-wicket stand of 165 between opener S S Das (100 batting) and P Malik (76 batting) helped Orissa pile up 245 for one on the opening day of their Super-League Ranji Trophy Match against Railways here today.

Orissa won the toss and elected to bat. They lost opener PJ Chandra for 33 when he was clean bowled by Murali Kartik with the total reading 77. But thereafter Railways failed to achieve any further success as the Orissa batsmen went from strength to strength to pile up an impressive score by stumps.

BRIEF SCORES

Orissa 245-1 (S S Dass batting 100, P Malik batting 76, P J Chandra 33; M Kartik 1-54).

Rajasthan pile on

JAIPUR: Good knocks by P Krishnakumar (133 not out) and Manish Singh (82) helped Rajasthan reach a formidable 521 for eight against Punjab at close of the second day’s play in the Group A encounter today.

Rajasthan resuming their innings at the overnight total of 252 for five, lost Anil Sinha (11) cheaply but all rounder P Krishnakumar (29 overnight) producedfruitful partnership of 68 runs for the seventh wicket with Devendra Pal Singh (44) and then added 149 runs for the eighth wicket with Manish Singh.

P Krishanakumar reached his fourth hundred in 404 minutes and 299 balls and was studded with six fours and a six and remained unconquered at stumps. The other not out batsman was Md Aslam (18).

BRIEF SCORES

Rajasthan 521-8 (A Jain 100, P Krishnakumar 133, M Singh 82; S Singh 3-92, S Sharma 2-121).