Tamil Nadu spill catches aplenty as Uttar Pradesh cash in

Thanks to dropped chances by hosts Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh managed to post 279 for six on the opening day of their four-day Group B Ranji Trophy match here on Saturday.

Electing to bat, opener Tanmay Srivastava survived two chances early on before being finally caught by Suresh Kumar off Aushik Srinivas for 31. Abhinav Mukund was the fielder on both occasions — at short leg and silly point. 

Srivastsava’s partner, Mukul Dagar, was caught by Baba Aparajith off Malolan Rangarajan. UP were 57 for two before Mohammad Kaif and Umang Sharma brought about some stability to their innings.

Brief scores: Group A: At Indore: Mumbai: 235/5 in 90 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 89 batting, Aditya Tare 42, Ankeet Chavan 36 batting, Abhishek Nayar 28; Ishwar Pandey 4-28) vs Madhya Pradesh.

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad: 247/6 in 93 overs (Bavanka Sandeep 68, Ashish Reddy 60 batting, Kolla Sumanth 45, Syed Quadri 27, Amol Shinde 26 batting; Murali Kartik 2-60, Karan Sharma 2-85) vs Railways.

At Jaipur: Rajasthan: 268/9 in 86.2 overs (Ashok Menaria 103, Vineet Saxena 71; Siddharth Trivedi 3-51, Jaydev Unadkat 3-54) vs Saurashtra.

At Valsad: Gujarat: 261/9 in 90 overs (Manprit Juneja 42, Samit Gohel 41, Jesal Karia 40, Rush Kalaria 40; Sandeep Sharma 3-40, Sarbjit Ladda 3-45, Siddarth Kaul 3-71) vs Punjab.

GROUP B: At Hubli: Haryana: 293/7 in 90 overs (Amit Mishra 86 batting, Jayant Yadav 64 batting, Sunny Singh 56, Rahul Dewan 39; S L Akshay 3-59, H S Sharath 2-49) vs Karnataka.

At Cuttack: Vidarbha: 188/8 in 87 overs (Hemant Badani 40, Amol Ubarhande 38, Gaurav Upadhyaya 30 batting, Faiz Fazal 30; Biplab Samantray 3-27, Basant Mohanty 2-23, Alok Chandra Sahoo 2-36) vs Odisha.

At Pune: Baroda: 256/3 in 90 overs (Kedar Devdhar 104 batting, Aditya Waghmode 87 batting, Saurabh Wakaskar 50; Shrikant Mundhe 2-45) vs Maharashtra.

At Chennai: Uttar Pradesh: 279/6 in 93 overs (Mohammad Kaif 68, Ali Murtaza 49 batting, Prashant Gupta 46 batting, Umang Sharma 36, Tanmay Srivastava 31, Ekalavya Deivedi 27; Malolan Rangarajan 3-84) vs Tamil Nadu.

GROUP C: At Guwahati: Andhra: 214/8 in 74 overs (Amol Muzumdar 82 batting, Bodapati Sumanth 57, Rajesh Pawar 37; Arup Das 3-56, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammed 2-26, Abu Nechim 2-63) vs Assam.

At Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir: 175 all out in 79.5 overs (Ram Dayal 35 n.o., Owais Shah 34; Vikramjeet Malik 5-41, Mukesh Sharma 2-13, Rishi Dhawan 2-19) vs Himachal Pradesh: 26/0 in 8 overs.

At Agartala: Tripura vs Goa (no play due to bad weather). At Malappuram: Jharkhand: 120 all out in 32.1 overs (Shiv Gautam 30; S Sreesanth 4-28, Chovvakkaran Shahid 2-13, Sandeep Warrier 2-38) vs Kerala: 165/1 in 55 overs (Robert Fernandez 86 batting, V A Jagadeesh 77 batting).