Ranji Roundup: Mumbai vs J&K evenly poised; Yuvraj scores ton for Punjab

The Ranji Trophy Group A cricket match between Mumbai and J&K was evenly poised at the end of the third day’s play with the visitors finishing on 58 for one while chasing a modest target of 237 on a wearing track at the Wankhede Stadium today. Jammu and Kashmir, who are meeting the 40-time champions for the first-time ever in the tournament, require just 179 more runs on the final day with nine wickets in hand to cause a major upset in the beginning of the tournament. But the wearing wicket here would give Mumbai a great chance to stop their rivals from scoring an upset win. At stumps on day three, first innings centurion Shubham Khajuria (34) and Bandeep Singh (11) were at the crease. [caption id=“attachment_1842013” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Yuvraj Singh celebrates his ton for Punjab. PTI[/caption] J&K had taken the first innings honours by grabbing a small lead of 18 runs over the hosts, who, however, batted well in the morning session from a shaky 66 for four to cross the 200-run mark before losing a clutch of wickets to be all out for 254. Captain Suryakumar Yadav, unbeaten last evening on 17 with night watchman Dhawal Kulkarni (1), played a responsible innings to score his fifth first class century and fourth in the tournament. Yadav, who threw away his wicket after reaching his half-century in the Mumbai first innings, made 115 in just under four hours off 158 balls and with 18 fours. He received fine support from pace Mumbai spearhead Kulkarni, as the duo slowly and steadily pulled the home team out of the woods with a stand of 152 runs in 204 minutes for the fifth wicket. But once the combination was broken by Umar Nazir, who had Kulkarni edge to the second slip, one of the four wickets he took in the innings, the Mumbai innings fell apart. It deepened when Yadav was caught in similar fashion off the same bowler – his seventh wicket of the game. Injured Wasim Jaffer remained unbeaten with four after batting at no. 11. Nazir’s new ball partner Ram Dayal then polished off the tail to return impressive figures of five for 76 in the second innings and eight for 127 in the match. J&K batted sedately in the run-chase, but lost the wicket of opener Adil Reshi to Shardul Thakur. Yuvraj scores ton for Punjab Riding on India discard Yuvraj Singh’s brilliant century, Punjab set Haryana a daunting target of 321 runs before reducing them to 26 for three at stumps on the third and penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy Group B cricket match today. Punjab need to take seven more wickets tomorrow to post an outright win, even as Haryana face an uphill task of saving the game with another 295 more runs required for victory. After bundling out Punjab for 273 in their first innings, Haryana took a slender lead of 10 runs by posting 283 all out. In the second innings, Punjab declared at 330 for six to set a massive target for Haryana. Yuvraj’s 130 off just 160 balls, including 14 fours and five sixes, was the highlight today. BRIEF SCORES Karnataka vs TN - Karnataka 290 and 247 for 4 in 62 overs (Robin Uthappa 76, Mayank Agarwal 80, Manish Pandey 33 not out, Karun Nair 35) vs Tamil Nadu (1st innings) 274 all out in 120.4 overs (Abhinav Mukund 84, Dinesh Karthik 38, Ramaswamy Prasanna 59, Vijay Shankar 29, Vinay Kumar 2 for 87, Sreenath Aravind 4 for 52, HS Sharath 2 for 22). Hyderabad vs Andhra - Hyderabad 1st innings 522 allout (Chama Milind 95, Dwaraka Ravi Teja 96; Duvvarapu Sivkumar 4/84) vs Andhra 1st innings 369 and 24/0 (KS Bharat 75, DB Prasanth 124, Ravi Kiran 3/103, S.A Quadri 3/54). Assam Vs Tripura - Tripura 1st innings 135(M. Murasingh 47; S Roy 3/6, K Das 3/41) & 2nd innings 155 (R.K Solanki 40. R Banik 39; Krishna Das 7/50, S.A 1/26) vs Assam 1st innings 275 (Kunal Saikia 64, Jalamuddin Syed Mohammad 51; M. Murasingh 5/70, Abhijit Sarkar 47/3) and 18/0 Bengal vs Baroda - Bengal 1st innings 455 all-out and 8/1 (Sudip Chatterjee 192, Shreevats Goswami 87; Swapnil Singh 5/99, Munaf Patel 2/75) vs Baroda 1st innings 354 (Kedar Devdhar 87, D.J Hooda 114; Laxmi Ratan Shukla 2/33, Ashok Dinda 3/92). Delhi vs Saurashtra - Delhi 1st innings 442 allout (Gautam Gambhir 147,Sumit Narwal 65; Sudeep Tyagi 95/3, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 85/2) vs Saurashtra 1st innings 217 and 163/4 (Divyaraj Chauhan 63, Arpit Vasavada 38; Parwinder Awana 3/30, Rajat Bhatia 3/25). Goa vs Kerala - Goa 1st innings 367 all-out ( Amogh Sunil Desai 75, Darshan Misal 67; Basil Thampi 4/110, Nizar Niyas 3/74) vs Kerala 1st innings 299/6 (Amit Verma 129, Nikhilesh Surendran 54; S.B Jakati 2/52, S.S bandekar 2/54). Maharastra vs Odisha - Odisha 1st innings 311 all-out and 1/0(Nataraj Behera 66, Biplab Samantray 106; Shrikant Mundhe 4/103, Dominic Joseph 3/57) vs Mahrastra first innings 371 (Harshad Khadiwale 83, Shrikant Mude 82; Deepak Behera 4/82, Biplab Samantray 3/36). Mumbai vs Jammu and Kashmir - Mumbai 1st innings 236 all out. (Suryakumar Yadav 57; Waseem Raza 3/29, Ram Dayal 3/51) vs Jammu and Kashmir 1st innings- 254 all out and 58/1 (Shubham Khajuria 34, Adil Reshi 12) Mumbai 2nd innings 253 (Dhawal Kulkarni 37, Suryakumar Yadav 114 not out; Ram Dayal 5/75, Umar Nazir 4/49). Punjab vs Haryana - Punjab 1st innings 273 all out (Yuvraj Singh 59, Amitoze Singh 45; Jayant Yadav 6/85, Amit Mishra 3/72) and 330/6 decl (Yuvraj Singh 130, Amitoze Singh 65; Jayant Yadav 2/124, Amit Mishra 2/58) vs Haryana 1st innings 283 all out and 26/3 (Sachin Rana 15 batting; Sandeep Sharma 3/13) Madhya Pradesh vs Railways - Madhya Pradesh 1st innings 181 all-out and 212/5 (Mohnish Mishra 71 ,Harpreet Singh 69; Krishnakant Upadhyay 25/40, Anureet Singh 1/49) vs Railways 1st innings 280. Rajasthan Vs Gujarat - Gujarat 1st innings 340 all-out and 266/7 decl (Priyank Kirit Panchal 110, Parethiv Patel 39; Pankaj Singh 3/79, Shailender Gehlot 4/50) vs Rajasthan 1st innings 195 and 34/3 (Vineet Saxena 18, Siddharth Saraf 12; Ishwar Chaudhury 2/20, Axar patel 1/2). Services vs Himachal Pradesh- Services 1st innings 226 all out and 91/3 (Soumil Chatterjee 27; Bipul Sharma 1/5) vs Himachal Pradesh 1st innings 479 (Ankush Bains 67, Nikhil Nangta 99; Suraj Yadav 3/101, Abhishek Sakuja 4/91). PTI