<p>Riding on Shreyas Gopal’s maiden first-class century, defending champions Karnataka posted 408 in the first innings against Bengal on day two of the Group A Ranji Trophy match, here on Monday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Coming to bat at number nine in the four-day encounter at Eden Gardens, Gopal struck a fluent 145 off 197 balls (19x4, 1x6) and combined with Sreenath Arvind (29 n.o.) to register a record 148-run 10th-wicket partnership for Karnataka. <br /><br />Gopal’s 145 is the highest score for a number nine batsman for the state, surpassing Dodda Ganesh’s 119 made against Vidharbha at Nagpur in 2002-03. Gopal’s 148-run allaince with Arvind is also a new state record for the last wicket partnership, going past the 121 between Yere Goud and NC Aiyyappa against Rajasthan at Gangotri Glades, Mysore, in 2007-08. The domestic record is held by Delhi’s Ajay Sharma and Maninder Singh, who stitched 233 together against the then Bombay in 1991-92 season.<br /><br />In reply, Bengal had a slow start before ending the day at 62 for one, still needing a huge 347 runs to ensure three points. Starting the day on 237 for seven, Karnataka never gave Bengal bowlers a breather after play resumed post a 45-minute stoppage due to bad light. <br /><br />Dinda (7/87) began impressively dismissing Vinay Kumar without any addition to his overnight 42 in the first over of the day en route to his 16th five-wicket haul but their momentum was broken after bad-light halted play.<br /><br />By the time the play resumed the wicket had eased out and it was all about the grit and application shown by Shreyas and Arvind. <br /><br />Composed innings<br /><br />Their intention was pretty clear and they dominated the proceedings going into lunch at 350 for nine with Shreyas five runs shy of the three-figure mark. Shreyas, who bats in the middle-order in the age-group cricket, never lost his composure and celebrated his maiden first-class century off Veer Pratap Singh, who bagged three wickets.<br /><br />Having completed his century, the 21-year-old Karnataka lad hit Veer Pratap for a six as Bengal bowlers had a tough time to break the partnership.<br /><br />It was Dinda, who finally brought an end to the misery by dismissing Shreyas through an edge behind the stumps while going for a backfoot punch. Bengal opening duo of Rohan Banerjee and Arindam were extra cautious and restrained themselves from playing their natural game.<br /><br />Vinay gave the breakthrough dismissing Das as Sudeep Chaterjee, fresh from his glorious 192 in Baroda, was batting on 10 along with Banerjee (27 n.o.) at stumps.<br /><br />score board<br /><br />KARNATAKA (I Innings): Robin Uthappa c Goswami b Dinda 0, Mayank Agarwal c Goswami b Dinda 5, Kunal Kapoor c Tiwary b Dinda 24, Manish Pandey c Goswami b Pratap Singh 25, Karun Nair c Goswami b Pratap Singh 2, Stuart Binny c&b Dinda 37, CM Gautam c Banerjee b Pratap Singh 63, R Vinay Kumar c Goswami b Dinda 42, Shreyas Gopal c Goswami b Dinda 145, A Mithun c Tiwary b Dinda 13, S Arvind (not out) 29; Extras (B-11, LB-1, W-3, NB-8) 23, Total (all out; 108.1 overs) 408. <br /><br />Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-9, 3-38, 4-42, 5-69, 6-133, 7-178, 8-237, 9-260. <br />Bowling: Ashok Dinda 32.1-10-87-7, Shib Shankar Paul 20-6-58-0, Veer Pratap Singh 26-1-98-3, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 12-0-61-0, Sourashish Lahiri 11-1-61-0, Manoj Tiwary 7-0-31-0. <br /><br />BENGAL (I Innings): Rohan Banerjee (not out) 27, Arindam Das c Pandey b Vinay 21, Sudip Chatterjee (not out) 10; Extras (LB-2, NB-2) 4, Total (1 wicket; 25 overs) 62.<br />Fall of wickets: 1-38.<br /><br />Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 9-2-22-1, A Mithun 10-4-24-0, Stuart Binny 2-0-5-0, S Arvind 3-1-3-0, Manish Pandey 1-0-6-0. <br /><br />RANJI ROUND-UP<br /><br />Group A: At Delhi: Railways (O/n: 25/2): 25/2 in 8.5 overs vs Mumbai. The second day’s play was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to wet ground conditions. <br /><br />At Indore: Madhya Pradesh (O/n: 195/7 in 90 overs): 296 all out in 116.3 overs: Puneet Datey 63 n.o., Sanjay Mishra 35; Praveen Kumar 3-43, RP Singh 3-68, Kuldeep Yadav 4-48) vs Uttar Pradesh: 149/6 in 56 overs: Umang Sharma 58, Parvinder Singh 25, Praveen Kumar 25 n.o.; Ishwar Pandey 3-17, Sanjay Mishra 2-36). <br /><br />At Dindgul: Tamil Nadu: 254 all out and 199/1 in 49 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 28, Abhinav Mukund 110 n.o., Baba Aparajith 53 n.o.) vs Jammu and Kashmir (O/n: 28/3): 132 all out in 54.2 overs (Hardeep Singh 35 n.o.; Rahul Shah 4-61, Aushik Srinivas 2-16, Malolan Rangarajan 4-35). <br /><br />Group B: At Rohtak: Haryana (O/n: 41/2) 136 all out in 52.4 overs (Avi Barot 31, Sachin Rana 41; Samad Fallah 5-36, Anupam Sanklecha 3-31) vs Maharashtra: 105 all out in 39.1 overs: Shrikant Mundhe 27; Ashish Hooda 5-27, Joginder Sharma 3-27).<br /><br />At Nagpur: Punjab: 195 all out vs Vidarbha (O/n: 3/0) 149/6 in 77 overs (S Badrinath 62, Shalabh Shrivastava 29; Siddarth Kaul 5-44). <br /><br />At Cuttack: Odisha (O/n: 219/8) 225 all out in 93.2 overs vs Gujarat: 255/4 in 83 overs (Bhargav Merai 87 n.o., Parthiv Patel 44, Priyank Panchal 25, Akshar Patel 31; Biplab Samantray 2-42). <br /><br />At Jaipur: Rajasthan (5/0): 264/2 in 88 overs (Vineet Saxena 118, Robin Bist 83 n.o., Ashok Menaria 25 n.o.) vs Saurashtra.<br /><br />Group C: At Hyderabad: Hyderabad (O/n: 290/1): 568/7 in 180 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 135, Syed Quadri 115 n.o.Ashish Reddy 66; Saurabh Bandekar 3-115, Shadab Jakati 2-111) vs Goa. <br /><br />At Vizianagaram: Kerala (O/n: 202/7): 229 all out in 94.3 overs (Raiphi Gomez 81; Duvvarapu Shivkumar 3-51, C Stephen 3-43) vs Andhra: 141 all out in 68.3 overs (Mohd Kaif 44, AG Pradeep 53; Nizar Niyas 3-42, U Manukrishnan 3-37, R Gomez 2-27). <br /><br />At Guwahati: Assam (O/n: 133/6): 191 all out in 72 overs (Kb Arun Karthik 97; A Yadav 2-25, Sunny Gupa 2-27, S Nadeem 2-44, S Quadri 2-46) vs Kharkhand: 196/4 in 69 overs (Ishan Kishan 60, Rameez Nemat 34, Kaushal Singh 37 n.o.; Krishna Das 2-48). <br /><br />At Delhi: Tripura: 267/5 in 81 overs (S Roy 33, A Dey 33, Yogesh Takawale 89, Rajesh Banik 49 batting, KK Acharjee 48 batting; S Yadav 2-56).</p>
<p>Riding on Shreyas Gopal’s maiden first-class century, defending champions Karnataka posted 408 in the first innings against Bengal on day two of the Group A Ranji Trophy match, here on Monday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Coming to bat at number nine in the four-day encounter at Eden Gardens, Gopal struck a fluent 145 off 197 balls (19x4, 1x6) and combined with Sreenath Arvind (29 n.o.) to register a record 148-run 10th-wicket partnership for Karnataka. <br /><br />Gopal’s 145 is the highest score for a number nine batsman for the state, surpassing Dodda Ganesh’s 119 made against Vidharbha at Nagpur in 2002-03. Gopal’s 148-run allaince with Arvind is also a new state record for the last wicket partnership, going past the 121 between Yere Goud and NC Aiyyappa against Rajasthan at Gangotri Glades, Mysore, in 2007-08. The domestic record is held by Delhi’s Ajay Sharma and Maninder Singh, who stitched 233 together against the then Bombay in 1991-92 season.<br /><br />In reply, Bengal had a slow start before ending the day at 62 for one, still needing a huge 347 runs to ensure three points. Starting the day on 237 for seven, Karnataka never gave Bengal bowlers a breather after play resumed post a 45-minute stoppage due to bad light. <br /><br />Dinda (7/87) began impressively dismissing Vinay Kumar without any addition to his overnight 42 in the first over of the day en route to his 16th five-wicket haul but their momentum was broken after bad-light halted play.<br /><br />By the time the play resumed the wicket had eased out and it was all about the grit and application shown by Shreyas and Arvind. <br /><br />Composed innings<br /><br />Their intention was pretty clear and they dominated the proceedings going into lunch at 350 for nine with Shreyas five runs shy of the three-figure mark. Shreyas, who bats in the middle-order in the age-group cricket, never lost his composure and celebrated his maiden first-class century off Veer Pratap Singh, who bagged three wickets.<br /><br />Having completed his century, the 21-year-old Karnataka lad hit Veer Pratap for a six as Bengal bowlers had a tough time to break the partnership.<br /><br />It was Dinda, who finally brought an end to the misery by dismissing Shreyas through an edge behind the stumps while going for a backfoot punch. Bengal opening duo of Rohan Banerjee and Arindam were extra cautious and restrained themselves from playing their natural game.<br /><br />Vinay gave the breakthrough dismissing Das as Sudeep Chaterjee, fresh from his glorious 192 in Baroda, was batting on 10 along with Banerjee (27 n.o.) at stumps.<br /><br />score board<br /><br />KARNATAKA (I Innings): Robin Uthappa c Goswami b Dinda 0, Mayank Agarwal c Goswami b Dinda 5, Kunal Kapoor c Tiwary b Dinda 24, Manish Pandey c Goswami b Pratap Singh 25, Karun Nair c Goswami b Pratap Singh 2, Stuart Binny c&b Dinda 37, CM Gautam c Banerjee b Pratap Singh 63, R Vinay Kumar c Goswami b Dinda 42, Shreyas Gopal c Goswami b Dinda 145, A Mithun c Tiwary b Dinda 13, S Arvind (not out) 29; Extras (B-11, LB-1, W-3, NB-8) 23, Total (all out; 108.1 overs) 408. <br /><br />Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-9, 3-38, 4-42, 5-69, 6-133, 7-178, 8-237, 9-260. <br />Bowling: Ashok Dinda 32.1-10-87-7, Shib Shankar Paul 20-6-58-0, Veer Pratap Singh 26-1-98-3, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 12-0-61-0, Sourashish Lahiri 11-1-61-0, Manoj Tiwary 7-0-31-0. <br /><br />BENGAL (I Innings): Rohan Banerjee (not out) 27, Arindam Das c Pandey b Vinay 21, Sudip Chatterjee (not out) 10; Extras (LB-2, NB-2) 4, Total (1 wicket; 25 overs) 62.<br />Fall of wickets: 1-38.<br /><br />Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 9-2-22-1, A Mithun 10-4-24-0, Stuart Binny 2-0-5-0, S Arvind 3-1-3-0, Manish Pandey 1-0-6-0. <br /><br />RANJI ROUND-UP<br /><br />Group A: At Delhi: Railways (O/n: 25/2): 25/2 in 8.5 overs vs Mumbai. The second day’s play was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to wet ground conditions. <br /><br />At Indore: Madhya Pradesh (O/n: 195/7 in 90 overs): 296 all out in 116.3 overs: Puneet Datey 63 n.o., Sanjay Mishra 35; Praveen Kumar 3-43, RP Singh 3-68, Kuldeep Yadav 4-48) vs Uttar Pradesh: 149/6 in 56 overs: Umang Sharma 58, Parvinder Singh 25, Praveen Kumar 25 n.o.; Ishwar Pandey 3-17, Sanjay Mishra 2-36). <br /><br />At Dindgul: Tamil Nadu: 254 all out and 199/1 in 49 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 28, Abhinav Mukund 110 n.o., Baba Aparajith 53 n.o.) vs Jammu and Kashmir (O/n: 28/3): 132 all out in 54.2 overs (Hardeep Singh 35 n.o.; Rahul Shah 4-61, Aushik Srinivas 2-16, Malolan Rangarajan 4-35). <br /><br />Group B: At Rohtak: Haryana (O/n: 41/2) 136 all out in 52.4 overs (Avi Barot 31, Sachin Rana 41; Samad Fallah 5-36, Anupam Sanklecha 3-31) vs Maharashtra: 105 all out in 39.1 overs: Shrikant Mundhe 27; Ashish Hooda 5-27, Joginder Sharma 3-27).<br /><br />At Nagpur: Punjab: 195 all out vs Vidarbha (O/n: 3/0) 149/6 in 77 overs (S Badrinath 62, Shalabh Shrivastava 29; Siddarth Kaul 5-44). <br /><br />At Cuttack: Odisha (O/n: 219/8) 225 all out in 93.2 overs vs Gujarat: 255/4 in 83 overs (Bhargav Merai 87 n.o., Parthiv Patel 44, Priyank Panchal 25, Akshar Patel 31; Biplab Samantray 2-42). <br /><br />At Jaipur: Rajasthan (5/0): 264/2 in 88 overs (Vineet Saxena 118, Robin Bist 83 n.o., Ashok Menaria 25 n.o.) vs Saurashtra.<br /><br />Group C: At Hyderabad: Hyderabad (O/n: 290/1): 568/7 in 180 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 135, Syed Quadri 115 n.o.Ashish Reddy 66; Saurabh Bandekar 3-115, Shadab Jakati 2-111) vs Goa. <br /><br />At Vizianagaram: Kerala (O/n: 202/7): 229 all out in 94.3 overs (Raiphi Gomez 81; Duvvarapu Shivkumar 3-51, C Stephen 3-43) vs Andhra: 141 all out in 68.3 overs (Mohd Kaif 44, AG Pradeep 53; Nizar Niyas 3-42, U Manukrishnan 3-37, R Gomez 2-27). <br /><br />At Guwahati: Assam (O/n: 133/6): 191 all out in 72 overs (Kb Arun Karthik 97; A Yadav 2-25, Sunny Gupa 2-27, S Nadeem 2-44, S Quadri 2-46) vs Kharkhand: 196/4 in 69 overs (Ishan Kishan 60, Rameez Nemat 34, Kaushal Singh 37 n.o.; Krishna Das 2-48). <br /><br />At Delhi: Tripura: 267/5 in 81 overs (S Roy 33, A Dey 33, Yogesh Takawale 89, Rajesh Banik 49 batting, KK Acharjee 48 batting; S Yadav 2-56).</p>