Ranji Trophy: Shardul Thakur the hero again as Mumbai take control

When play resumed connected Monday, Haryana had 5 wickets successful manus and were conscionable 52 runs distant from overhauling Mumbai’s archetypal innings full of 315. However, Thakur ran done them to extremity up with six wickets successful the innings arsenic Haryana were bowled retired for 301, losing their past 5 wickets for conscionable 38 runs. Barring skipper Ankit Kumar who made 136 astatine the top, nary of them crossed 36.

From determination on, Mumbai began to asseverate power implicit the game. All that they needed was a bully commencement and erstwhile their apical 3 provided it, skipper Ajinkya Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav did the rest. With Rahane dropping anchor, Surya took the onslaught to the opposition, scoring 70 disconnected 86 deliveries. Rahane looked solid, remaining unbeaten astatine stumps connected 88 arsenic Mumbai’s pb swelled to 292 with six wickets successful hand. With plentifulness of batting to come, they whitethorn already person 1 ft successful the semifinals.

Brief scores: Mumbai 315 & 278/4 (Ajinkyar Rahane 88 batting, Suryakumar Yadav 70) vs Haryana 301 (Ankit Kumar 136; Shardul Thakur 6/58).

Vidarbha successful command

The penning is connected the partition for Tamil Nadu arsenic they statesman to endure a dilatory and achy exit from the Ranji Trophy, to widen their rubric drought successful the tournament. Beginning the time astatine 159/6 successful effect to Vidarbha’s 353, they folded for 225 to concede a pb of 128 arsenic seamer Aditya Thakare finished with 5 wickets. From determination on, for Tamil Nadu to marque a lucifer of it, they needed their bowlers to marque speedy inroads into an in-form batting line-up. Though Vidarbha mislaid their archetypal 3 wickets successful speedy succession, Yash Rathod held fort astatine 1 end. With clip not being a constraint, Vidarbha went astir their concern patiently, thereby ensuring their bowlers excessively got capable clip to recover, ending Day 3 astatine 169/5 with a pb of 297 runs.

Brief scores: Vidarbha 353 & 169/5 (Yash Rathod 55 batting) vs Tamil Nadu 225 (Andre Siddarth 65, Pradosh Ranjan Paul 48; Aditya Thakare 5/34).

Saurashtra staring astatine innings defeat

At Rajkot, it feels similar an epoch is coming to an extremity arsenic Saurashtra ended the 3rd time astatine 33/0 successful their 2nd innings trailing Gujarat by a monolithic 262 runs. One of the astir accordant sides implicit the past decade, with ageing players around, the extremity cards are opening to beryllium played for Saurashtra. When play resumed connected Monday, Gujarat already had a pb of 44 runs. Overnight batsman Jaymeet Patel completed his period earlier falling for 103. Thereafter, wicketkeeper Urvil Patel, who has been successful red-hot signifier this play crossed each formats, went astir punishing Saurashtra. In an innings of 197 deliveries, Urvil scored 140 (17x4s, 4x6s) arsenic the little bid provided him ample support. Gujarat ended with 511 connected the board. For Saurashtra, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja picked up 5 wickets portion Chirag Jani took four. With 2 days near successful the game, Saurashtra’s Ranji play is each acceptable to extremity successful the quarterfinals for the 2nd successive season.

Brief scores: Saurashtra 216 & 33/0 vs Gujarat 511 (Urvil Patel 140, Jaymeet Patel 103; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 5/120, Chirag Jani 4/67).