'I had my heart in my mouth'

Karnataka’s CM Gautam thanked his luck after being dropped on 25 that allowed him to complete a century that hauled his side back against Maharashtra.

“Yeah I really had my heart in my mouth when I was dropped but I guess fortune favours the brave,” said Gautam, who was dropped on 25 by Maharashtra wicketkeeper Rohit Motwani,.

“The second one I hit really hard so I knew that it would be hard for him to latch on to it,’ added the 26-year-old when referring to the drop by Prayag Bhati on 112.
Binny, also received a reprieve, dropped on 21 by Harshad Khadiwale.

Ranji Trophy other scores: Group A: At Mumbai: Gujarat: 244 all out in 78.3 overs (Parthiv Patel 101, Bhargav Merai 41, Samit Gohel 30; Ankeet Chavan 3-54, Zaheer Khan 2-40, Javed Khan 2-46) vs Mumbai: 24/1 in 8.3 overs.

At Rajkot: Saurashtra: 212/9 in 90 overs (Arpit Vasavada 54, Sheldon Jackson 53; Ishwar Pandey 3-37, Rameez Khan 2-25, Ankit Sharma 2-53) vs Madhya Pradesh.

At Jaipur: Rajasthan: 274/5 in 90 overs (Vineet Saxena 84, Ashok Menaria 63, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 42, Rashmi Parida 26 batting, Robin Bist 26; Amol Shinde 2-77) vs Hyderabad. At Kolkata: Railways 214/9 in 89.1 overs (Amit Paunikar 50, Murali Kartik 48, Karan Sharma 32; Sourav Sarkar 3-62, Shib Sankar Paul 2-51) vs Bengal.

At Nagpur: Delhi 254/4 in 90 overs (Unmukt Chand 82, Mithun Manhas 54, Mohit Sharma 53, Shikhar Dhawan 30; Shrikant Wagh 2-42) vs Vidarbha.

At Cuttack: Uttar Pradesh: 160 all out in 61 overs (Akshdeep Nath 37, Mukul Dagar 29; Deepak Behera 6-37, Basant Mohanty 2-28, Biplab Samantray 2-30) vs Odisha: 70/5 in 23 overs (Imtiaz Ahmed 2-29).

At Chennai: Tamil Nadu vs Haryana (first day washed out).
Group C: At Porvorim: Goa: 264/3 in 90 overs (Amogh Desai 101 batting, Sagun Kamat 70, Regan Pinto 61) vs Assam.

At Cuddapah: Andhra: 249/7 in 86 overs (Amol Muzumdar 99 batting, Syed Shahabuddin 49, Bodapati Sumanth 47; K J Rakesh 2-20, Sandeep Warrier 2-54, Unnikrishnan Manukrishnan 2-59) vs Kerala.

At Delhi: Services: 185 all out in 80.1 overs (Soumik Chatterjee 97; Ajay Yadav 5-30, Shahbaz Nadeem 3-42) vs Jharkhand: 4/0 in 4 overs.  At Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir vs Tripura (first day washed out).