Bowlers have a ball at the Roshanara

Wickets fell like nine-pins at Roshanara ground, a rarity when Delhi plays at home. But unlike Ferozeshah Kotla, the pitch here was had bounce and assisted seam and swing. 

Delhi though found themselves ill at ease at the end of the opening day of Ranji Trophy against Maharashtra on Saturday.

It was the same old story which Delhi had written for it throughout this season.  On a day when 13 wickets fell, the hosts, electing to field, bowled out Maharashtra for 196 at stroke of tea only to suffer the same fate and tether at  60/3 at stumps.

Brief scores: GROUP A: At Kolkata: Hyderabad: 115 all out in 37.1 overs (Kolla Sumanth 25; Shami Ahmed 4-36, V Pratap Singh 3-31, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 2-21) vs Bengal: 79/8 in 38 overs (Arindam Das 37 batting; Anwar Ahmed 3-30, Ashish Reddy 5-30).

At Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh: 281/5 in 88 overs (Jalaj Saxena 84, Rameez Khan 25, Devendra Bundela 92 batting, Harpreet Singh 30, Rahul Bakshi 34 batting; Sandeep Sharma 3-78, Baltej Singh 2-47) vs Punjab.

At Bhubaneswar: Railways: 239/4 in 89 overs (Amit Paunikar 31, Shivakant Shukla 109, P M Madkaikar 70 batting; Aniket Choudhary 2-42) vs Rajasthan.

At Rajkot: Mumbai: 306/2 in 90 overs (Wasim Jaffer 79, Aditya Tare 122 batting, Rohit Sharma 72 batting) vs Saurashtra.

GROUP B: At Delhi: Maharashtra: 196 all out in 55.2 overs (Ankit Bawne 58, Shrikant Mundhe 42; Pawan Suyal 2-53, Sumit Narwal 3-35, Pradeep Sangwan 2-54) vs Delhi: 60/3 in 29 overs (Samad Fallah 2-23).

At Vadodara: Baroda: 191/9 in 86 overs (Ambati Rayudu 54, Murtuja Vahora 45 n.o; Jagannathan Kaushik 2-45, Sunil Sam 2-61, Yo Mahesh 5-25) vs Tamil Nadu.

At Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh: 227 all out in 73 overs (Mukul Dagar 38, Suresh Raina 49, Parvinder Singh 32, Arish Alam 52; Mohit Sharma 5-47, Harshal Patel 2-42) vs Haryana: 32/1 in 9 overs.

GROUP C: At Porvorim: Himachal Pradesh: 210/5 in 90 overs (Amit Kumar 76 batting, Mukesh Sharma 73; Gauresh Gawas 2-69, Shadab Jakati 2-56) vs Goa.

At Dhanbad: Jharkhand: 153/6 in 71 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 73 batting, Shiv Gautam 28 batting; Syed Sahabuddin 3-31, P Vijaykumar 2-29) vs Andhra.

At Palam: Jammu & Kashmir: 85 all out in 29.5 overs (Suraj Yadav 4-35, Nishan Singh 3-26, Shadab Nazar 2-24) vs Services: 150/6 in 55 overs (Rajat Paliwal 66 batting, Sarabjit Singh 38 batting; Ram Dayal 4-45).

At Agartala: Kerala: 275/5 in 87 overs (Abhishek Hegde 36, V A Jagadeesh 30, Robert Fernandez 25, Rohan Prem 105 batting, Pallam Anfal 34; Timir Chanda 3-47) vs Tripura.