JOIN USPatient half-centuries by Wriddhiman Saha and Rohan Banerjee after an impressive morning spell by Shami Ahmed helped Bengal beat Hyderabad by four wickets and record their maiden outright win in this season’s Ranji Trophy campaign at Eden Gardens here on Monday.
Brief scores: Group A: At Kolkata: Hyderabad: 115 and 181 all out in 62.4 overs (Akshath Reddy 49, Ashish Reddy 42; Shami Ahmed 6-71, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 3-38) lt to Bengal: 116 and 183/6 in 63 overs (Rohan Banerjee 56, Wriddhiman Saha 52 n.o.; Anwar Ahmed 3-68). Bengal: 6 points; Hyderabad: 0.
At Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh: 323 vs Punjab: 148 and (following on) 354/8 in 92 overs (Yuvraj Singh 131, Jiwanjot Singh 103, Gaurav Yadav 4-86).
At Bhubaneswar: Railways: 405 vs Rajasthan: 135 all out in 64 overs (Ashok Menaria 27; Anureet Singh 5-40, Ranjitkumar Mali 3-42) and (following on) 153/2 in 58 overs (Sourabh Chouhan 51, Robin Bist 35 batting, Ashok Menaria 29 batting).
At Rajkot: Mumbai: 606/5 decl vs Saurashtra: 248/8 in 105 overs (Aarpit Vasavada 83 batting, Jaydev Shah 60, Saurya Sanandiya 37, Shitanshu Kotak 31; Iqbal Abdulla 2-27, Javed Khan 2-32, Ajit Agarkar 2-55, Dhawal Kulkarni 2-57).
Group B: At Delhi: Maharashtra: 196 and 266 all out in 90.4 overs (Harshad Khadiwale 96, Ankit Bawne 55, Chirag Khurana 38, Shrikant Mundhe 33; Sumit Narwal 3-48, Pradeep Sangwan 3-64, Pawan Suyal 2-58, Vikas Tokas 2-62) vs Delhi: 193.
At Vadodara: Baroda: 208 and 116/4 in 66 overs (Aditya Waghmode 39, Abhimanyu Chauhan 29; Jagannathan Kaushik 3-23) vs Tamil Nadu: 230 all out in 102.3 overs (Ramaswamy Prasanna 75, Baba Aparajith 62; Murtuja Vahora 4-36, Ketan Panchal 2-33, Sankalp Vohra 2-54, Gagandeep Singh 2-69).
At Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh: 227 and 217/4 in 82 overs (Tanmay Srivastava 73, Eklavya Dwivedi 51 batting, Parwinder Singh 45 batting; Mohit Sharma 2-49, Amoit Mishra 2-55) vs Haryana: 276 all out in 102.1 overs (Rahul Dewan 93, Joginder Sharma 65, Rahul Dalal 36; Ankit Rajpoot 6-68, Imtiaz Ahmed 3-88).
Group C: At Porvorim: Himachal Pradesh: 338 vs Goa: 347/8 in 142 overs (Reagan Pinto 85 batting, Swapnil Asnodkar 81, Amog Desai 59, Shadab Jakati 3; Rahul Singh 4-71).
At Dhanbad: Jharkhand: 257 and 20/0 in 9 overs vs Andhra: 410 all out in 119 overs (Amol Muzumdar 180, Duvvarapu Shivkumar 57, A G Pradeep 56, Rajesh Pawar 41; Shankar Rao 4-98).
At Palam: J&K: 85 and 269 all out in 107.4 overs (Ram Dayal 62, Manik Gupta 58, Ian Dev Singh 52; Nishan Singh 5-73, Suraj Yadav 4-79) vs Services: 221 and 71/4 in 33 overs (Yashpal Singh 40 batting; Ram Dayal 2-15).
At Agartala: Kerala: 400 vs Tripura 127 all out in 61 overs (Subhrajit Roy 27, Kaushal Acharjee 26; Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan 6-37, Sandeep Warrier 3-33) and (following on) 70/3 in 47 overs (Sandeep Warrier 2-16).