Ranji Form Book

8226; He has been in good form this season, and Ramkumar8217;s tally is 18 wickets from just three innings at this stage. The Tamil Nadu l...

8226; He has been in good form this season, and Ramkumar8217;s tally is 18 wickets from just three innings at this stage. The Tamil Nadu left-arm spinner8217;s 6-47 aided his team8217;s cause today as they made Uttar Pradesh follow-on. This is one guy who needs close watching as the season progresses.

8226; Taking an opportunity coming your way is an art. Debutant Maharashtra opener Kunal Marathe practiced it rather effectively in Pune when playing only because regular Dheeraj Jadhav was away playing South Africa in Jaipur, he spanked 110 as the hosts gave a strong reply to Baroda.

8226; Remember Laxmi Ratan Shukla? The one-time Kapil Dev heir apparent knocked a solid 90 against Railways today. Freeflowing to say the least, he helped a mediocre Bengal batting performance reach respectability and his form with the bat will only help Bengal this season.

8226; Railways8217; Jai Prakash Yadav promised much as an all-rounder for the future when he made it to Team India a couple of years ago. Today he proved that talk about his potential was not unfounded. He scythed through the Bengal line-up 5-37 with the new ball. This effort came after he had scored a bright 93 yesterday.

8226; Consistency has been his forte over the years. Paceman Gagandeep Singh continued to do more of the same as he scalped seven wickets on Thursday. In all, the Punjab lad has nine in the match and a clean up act of Assam on the morrow would be worth five points for his side.

RANJI ROUND-UP

	nbsp;	In Lucknow Tamil Nadu: 353 vs Uttar Pradesh: 136 Amir Khan 62; Ramkumar 6-47 038; 5-0 In Pune Baroda: 446 vs Maharashtra: 328-4 K Marathe batting 110, D Mohan 87 In Delhi Roshanara ground Delhi: 491-9 decl vs Andhra Pradesh: 266-7 ASK Varma 80; Sanjay Gill 3-77 In Delhi Karnail Singh Stadium Railways: 348 038; 137-4 A Pagnis batting 62 vs Bengal: 255 L R Shukla 90; JP Yadav 5-37, S Saxena 3-62 In Amritsar Punjab: 422 vs Assam: 213 SZ Zuffri 52, Sukhvinder Singh 59; Gagandeep Singh 6-41 038; 146-7 SK Sarvanan batting 63; Gagandeep 3-25 In Bangalore Gujarat: 330 038; 124-2 Akash Christian 57 vs Karnataka: 272 Rowalnd Barrington 59, Sunil Joshi 54 n.o.; Lalit Patel 4-62 In Mumbai Madhya Pradesh: 255 038; 99-5 Devendra Bundela batting 59 vs Mumbai: 233 Ajit Agarkar 84; Sunil Dholpure 5-68	nbsp;