<p>Speedster Parvinder Awana’s late strikes helped Delhi restrict Haryana to 219 for six at stumps on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match at the Bansi Lal Stadium in Lahli on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Awana removed Sachin Rana and rival captain Amit Mishra in quick succession with the second new ball as the hosts frittered away a good start provided by openers Rahul Dewan (71) and Nitin Saini (45).<br /><br />The duo added 69 runs for the opening stand but barring Rahul Dalal (42 batting), the others didn’t make any significant contribution.<br /><br />Awana finished the day on three for 39 from 17 overs.<br /><br />The pitch was dry in nature which forced Delhi management to include off-spinner Manoj Chauhan who gave away 89 runs in 27 overs. Although the young off-spinner was successful in beating the batsman on a few occasions, he failed to consistently give the ball air or invite the batsmen to drive.<br /><br />While the dogged Dewan batted for more than four hours for his 170-ball-71 which had six boundaries, Haryana batsmen never managed to force the pace and as a result don’t have too many on the board.<br /><br />Saini and Dewan gave a solid start before the breakthrough came in the 23rd over. Saini drove an Awana delivery uppishly towards mid-off where Rajat Bhatia took the catch.<br /><br />Dewan and Sunny Singh (28) then added another 50 runs before Sunny was cleaned up by Sumit Narwal as the burly Bhiwani boy was bowled through the gate.<br />Resilient<br /><br />The resilient Dewan was finally out off the last delivery of the 59th over when left-arm <br />spinner Vikas Mishra bowled him as the opener dragged the ball onto his stumps.<br />Veteran all-rounder Bhatia bowled off-breaks for five overs rather than his normal military medium stuff.<br /><br />Gauging that there is some turn on offer, Bhatia bowled proper off-breaks and invited Abhimanyu Khod (15) to drive one and the resultant nick was gobbled up by Puneet Bisht.<br /><br />Brief scores: Haryana: 219/6 in 90 overs (Rahul Dewan 71, Nitin Saini 45, Rahul Dalal 42 batting, Sunny Singh 28; Parwinder Awana 3-39) vs Delhi.<br /><br />Ranji round-up<br /><br />Group A: At Mohali: Rajasthan: 222 all out in 70.3 overs (Puneet Yadav 57, Deepak Chahar 35, Dishant Yagnik 34, Ashok Menaria 32; Siddarth Kaul 4-63, Sandeep Sharma 3-72, Baltej Singh 2-45) vs Punjab: 20/1 in 17 overs.<br /><br />At Mumbai: Mumbai: 262/7 in 90 overs (Wassim Jaffer 80, Abhishek Nayar 62, Aditya Tare 38, Anikeet Chavan 35; Laxmi Ratan Shukla 4-35, Iresh Saxena 2-101) vs Bengal.<br /><br />At Rajkot: Saurashtra: 227/4 in 90 overs (Ravindra Jadeja 111 batting, Shitanshu Kotak 53 batting, Bhushan Chauhan 33; Sanjay Bangar 2-46, Krishnakant Upadhayay 2-53) vs Railways.<br /><br />At Valsad: Gujarat: 254/2 in 90 overs (Smit Patel 114, Samit Gohel 85, Bhargav Merai 45 batting) vs Hyderabad.<br /><br />Group B: At Sambalpur: Maharashtra: 264/7 in 90 overs (Aniket Bawne 51, Chirag Khurana 48, Harshad Khadiwale 43, Kedar Jadhav 33, Virag Awate 25; Bsant Mohanty 2-35) vs Odisha.<br /><br />At Kanpur: Baroda: 254 all out in 83.3 overs (Ambati Rayudu 85, Kedar Devdhar 65, Ketan Panchal 31, Rakesh Solanki 25; Aniket Rajput 4-62, Piyush Chawla 3-78, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2-33) vs Uttar Pradesh: 18/0 in 6 overs.<br /><br />At Nagpur: Tamil Nadu: 235/3 in 90 overs (S Badrinath 101 batting, Dinesh Kaarthick 49, KB Arun Karthik 26; Shrikant Wagh 2-57) vs Vidarbha.<br /><br />Group C: At Visakhapatnam: Andhra: 240/5 in 87 overs (Amol Muzumdar 56 batting, Syed Shahabuddin 49, Prasanth Kumar 48, A G Pradeep 30; Saurabh Bandekar 3-62) vs Goa. <br /><br />At Guwahati: Jammu & Kashmir: 240/7 in 90 overs (Parvez Rassol 67, Hardeep Singh 39, <br />Bandeep Singh 36, Obaid Haroon 35 batting; Arup Das 4-58) vs Assam.<br /><br />At Nadaun: Tripura: 325/4 in 88 overs (Subhrajit Roy 111, Abbas Ali 83, Ajay Ratra 55 batting, Abhijit Dey 26 batting; Rishi Dhawan 2-83) vs Himachal Pradesh.<br /></p>
<p>Speedster Parvinder Awana’s late strikes helped Delhi restrict Haryana to 219 for six at stumps on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match at the Bansi Lal Stadium in Lahli on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Awana removed Sachin Rana and rival captain Amit Mishra in quick succession with the second new ball as the hosts frittered away a good start provided by openers Rahul Dewan (71) and Nitin Saini (45).<br /><br />The duo added 69 runs for the opening stand but barring Rahul Dalal (42 batting), the others didn’t make any significant contribution.<br /><br />Awana finished the day on three for 39 from 17 overs.<br /><br />The pitch was dry in nature which forced Delhi management to include off-spinner Manoj Chauhan who gave away 89 runs in 27 overs. Although the young off-spinner was successful in beating the batsman on a few occasions, he failed to consistently give the ball air or invite the batsmen to drive.<br /><br />While the dogged Dewan batted for more than four hours for his 170-ball-71 which had six boundaries, Haryana batsmen never managed to force the pace and as a result don’t have too many on the board.<br /><br />Saini and Dewan gave a solid start before the breakthrough came in the 23rd over. Saini drove an Awana delivery uppishly towards mid-off where Rajat Bhatia took the catch.<br /><br />Dewan and Sunny Singh (28) then added another 50 runs before Sunny was cleaned up by Sumit Narwal as the burly Bhiwani boy was bowled through the gate.<br />Resilient<br /><br />The resilient Dewan was finally out off the last delivery of the 59th over when left-arm <br />spinner Vikas Mishra bowled him as the opener dragged the ball onto his stumps.<br />Veteran all-rounder Bhatia bowled off-breaks for five overs rather than his normal military medium stuff.<br /><br />Gauging that there is some turn on offer, Bhatia bowled proper off-breaks and invited Abhimanyu Khod (15) to drive one and the resultant nick was gobbled up by Puneet Bisht.<br /><br />Brief scores: Haryana: 219/6 in 90 overs (Rahul Dewan 71, Nitin Saini 45, Rahul Dalal 42 batting, Sunny Singh 28; Parwinder Awana 3-39) vs Delhi.<br /><br />Ranji round-up<br /><br />Group A: At Mohali: Rajasthan: 222 all out in 70.3 overs (Puneet Yadav 57, Deepak Chahar 35, Dishant Yagnik 34, Ashok Menaria 32; Siddarth Kaul 4-63, Sandeep Sharma 3-72, Baltej Singh 2-45) vs Punjab: 20/1 in 17 overs.<br /><br />At Mumbai: Mumbai: 262/7 in 90 overs (Wassim Jaffer 80, Abhishek Nayar 62, Aditya Tare 38, Anikeet Chavan 35; Laxmi Ratan Shukla 4-35, Iresh Saxena 2-101) vs Bengal.<br /><br />At Rajkot: Saurashtra: 227/4 in 90 overs (Ravindra Jadeja 111 batting, Shitanshu Kotak 53 batting, Bhushan Chauhan 33; Sanjay Bangar 2-46, Krishnakant Upadhayay 2-53) vs Railways.<br /><br />At Valsad: Gujarat: 254/2 in 90 overs (Smit Patel 114, Samit Gohel 85, Bhargav Merai 45 batting) vs Hyderabad.<br /><br />Group B: At Sambalpur: Maharashtra: 264/7 in 90 overs (Aniket Bawne 51, Chirag Khurana 48, Harshad Khadiwale 43, Kedar Jadhav 33, Virag Awate 25; Bsant Mohanty 2-35) vs Odisha.<br /><br />At Kanpur: Baroda: 254 all out in 83.3 overs (Ambati Rayudu 85, Kedar Devdhar 65, Ketan Panchal 31, Rakesh Solanki 25; Aniket Rajput 4-62, Piyush Chawla 3-78, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2-33) vs Uttar Pradesh: 18/0 in 6 overs.<br /><br />At Nagpur: Tamil Nadu: 235/3 in 90 overs (S Badrinath 101 batting, Dinesh Kaarthick 49, KB Arun Karthik 26; Shrikant Wagh 2-57) vs Vidarbha.<br /><br />Group C: At Visakhapatnam: Andhra: 240/5 in 87 overs (Amol Muzumdar 56 batting, Syed Shahabuddin 49, Prasanth Kumar 48, A G Pradeep 30; Saurabh Bandekar 3-62) vs Goa. <br /><br />At Guwahati: Jammu & Kashmir: 240/7 in 90 overs (Parvez Rassol 67, Hardeep Singh 39, <br />Bandeep Singh 36, Obaid Haroon 35 batting; Arup Das 4-58) vs Assam.<br /><br />At Nadaun: Tripura: 325/4 in 88 overs (Subhrajit Roy 111, Abbas Ali 83, Ajay Ratra 55 batting, Abhijit Dey 26 batting; Rishi Dhawan 2-83) vs Himachal Pradesh.<br /></p>