Wickets tumble in Kanpur on dramatic day
Wickets fell like ninepins, with 22 of them tumbling on a dramatic second day leaving Uttar Pradesh needing another 183 more runs to win with eight wickets in hand in their Ranji Trophy Super League Group B match against Bengal here on Wednesday.
In reply to Bengal’s first-innings total of 193 all out, UP were shot out for just 62 from 24.1 overs, paceman Ranadeb Bose (5/18) ripping apart the top and middle order.
Bengal were then themselves bundled out for 104 in their second essay, setting UP a target of 236 for an outright win.
At the draw of stumps, the hosts were 53 for two with Shivkant Shukla batting on 18 and captain Mohd Kaif giving him company on one.
Earlier, Bose was twice on course for a hat-trick. He first removed Shivkant Shukla (2) and Rohit Prakash Srivastava (0) in successive balls in the fifth over and then Parvinder Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0) in the 13th over to reduce the home team to 15 for five.
For Bengal, Sourav Sarkar (3/20) and Laxmi Ratan Shukla (2/23) also chipped in.
The Bengal batsmen, however, failed to capitalise on the fine show by their bowlers as the visitors were bundled out for 104 in 36.3 overs.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (5/27) ripped through the Bengal top order.
Brief Scores (Super League)
Group A:
At Surat: Gujarat (O/n: 144/5): 234 all out in 90.5 overs (Bhavik Thaker 35, Sunny Patel 37; Vikramjeet Singh Malik 3-31, Ashok Thakur 2-74, Kuldeep Diwan 2-59, Mukesh Sharma 3-16) vs Himachal 174/8 in 58 overs (Vineet Indulkar 49, Paras Dogra 65 n.o.; Siddarth Trivedi 4-28, Salil Yadav 2-62).
At Mumbai: Tamil Nadu (O/n: 251/5): 501 all out in 171.3 overs (S Badrinath 250, C Ganapathy 126, Umashankar Sushil 30; Dhawal Kulkarni 3-93, UsmanMalvi 3-108, Iqbal Abdulla 2-104) vs Mumbai: 10/0 in 6 overs.
At Chandigarh: Orissa (O/n: 232/7): 283 all out in 99 overs (Bikas Patil 52, Niranjan Behera 72, Pravanjan Mullick 28, Alok Sahoo 58; Love Ablish 6-110, MS Gony 3-51) vs Punjab: 144/8 in 50 overs (Ravi Inder Singh 46, Mayank Sidhana 32 n.o., Gagandeep Singh 56 n.o.; Debsish Mohanty 3-47, Basanth Mohanty 4-44).
At Hyderabad: Railways (O/n: 211/5): 305 all out in 131 overs (Faiz Fazal 69, Yere Goud 79, Marripuri Suresh 64, Karan Sharma 27; Alfred Absolem 5-89, Mohammed Khader 2-51, MP Arjun 2-61) vs Hyderabad: 99/2 in 44.4 overs (P Shashank Nag 51, Anirudh Singh 41 n.o.).
Group B: At New Delhi: Delhi (O/n: 344/4): 419 all out in 90 overs (Mithun Manhas 170, Rajat Bhatia 99; Samad Fallah 5-121, Jitendra Patil 4-113) vs Maharashtra: 163 all out in 43.2 overs (Ankit Bawane 27, Jitendra Patil 39; Sumit Narwal 2-36, Parvinder Awana 5-40, Pawan Suyal 2-25) and (following on) 32/1 in 7.4 overs.
At Kanpur: Bengal: 193 all out in 78.1 overs and 104 all out in 36.3 overs (Laxmi Ratan Shukla 32, Sourav Sarkar 27; Rudra Pratap Singh 2-34, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 5-27, Piyush Chawl1 2-23) vs Uttar Pradesh: 62 all out in 24.1 overs (Ranadeb Bose 5-18, Sourav Sarkar 3-20, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 2-23) and 53/2 in 13 overs (Praveen Kumar 30).
At Vadodara: Saurashtra: 127 all out and 137 all out in 37.4 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 71; Irfan Pathan 4-35, Firdaush Bhaja 4-42) lt to Baroda: 124 all out in 40.5 overs and 145/3 in 31.1 overs (Jacob Martin 36 n.o., Irfan Pathan 65 n.o.; Sandeep Jobanputra 2-48). Baroda 5 pts, Saurashtra 0;.
