JOIN US Defending champions Karnataka, already assured of topping Group A, ended the second day on 175 for two in reply to Mumbai’s tall first innings total of 436 in their Ranji Trophy cricket league game here on Saturday.
Karnataka first dismissed the home team, who added 94 runs to their overnight score of 342 for five, 37 minutes before lunch. The visitors then rode on some steady top order batting to finish the day just 261 runs behind the 40-time champions’ total on a slow Wankhede track.
At stumps, opener R Samarth was unbeaten on 85 having hit eight fours in his 188-ball knock, along with Manish Pandey, who had faced 15 balls and was yet to score.
The batsmen out were opener Robin Uthappa (49) and Kunal Kapoor (35) who got the starts but then fell leg before.
scoreboard MUMBAI (I Innings; O/n: 342/5): Shrideep Mangela c Uthappa b Vinay 4, Aditya Tare c Samarth b Shreyas 72, Shreyas Iyer c Gautam b Vinay 20, Abhishek Nayar c Pandey b Udit 36, Surya Kumar Yadav lbw Udit 19, Siddhesh Lad c Gautam b Vinay Kumar 106, Nikhil Patil c Pandey b Aravind 106, Shardul Thakur c Uthappa b Patel 15, Akshay Girap c Samarth b Aravind 24, Harmeet Singh lbw Vinay Kumar 12, Balwinder Sandhu (not out) 9, Extras (B-6, LB-6,W-1) 13, Total (all out; 117.1 overs) 436.
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-53, 3-128, 4-158, 5-167, 6-357, 7-386, 8-404, 9-415.
Bowling: Vinay Kumar 23.1-6-88-4, Abhimanyu Mithun 20-7-74-0, Shreyas Gopal 15-1-73-1, Sreenath Aravind 27-3-91-2, Udit Patel 31-3-96-3, R Samarth 1-0-2-0.
KARNATAKA (I Innings): Robin Uthappa lbw Harmeet Singh 49, R Samarth 85 (batting), Kunal Kapoor b Girap 35, Manish Pandey 0 (batting), Extras (B-2, W-1, NB-3) 6, Total (for 2 wkts; 60 overs) 175.
Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-166.
Bowling: Shardul Thakur 11-2-45-0, Balwinder Sandhu 7-3-8-0, Harmeet Singh 23-3-63-1, Akshay Girap 18-0-53-1, Siddhesh Lad 1-0-4-0. Ranji round-up Brief Scores: Group A: At Baroda: Baroda: 149 all out in 50.3 overs and 73/3 in 27 overs) vs Tamil Nadu (O/n: 77/2): 188 all out in 90 overs (Vijay 32, Aparajith 35, Indrajith 37 batting; S Mangalorkar 7-49).
At Indore: Madhya Pradesh (O/n: 274/1): 514/6 decl in 140.1 overs (Aditya Srivastava 151, Jalaj Saxena 109; R Khan 37, N Ojha 30, Bundela 81, Mishra 56; S Lahiri 3-105) vs Bengal: 108/3 in 35 overs (S Chhatterjee 58 batting; A Khan 2-21).
At New Delhi: Railways (O/n: 331/9): 345 all out in 93.1 overs (Mahesh Rawat 146, Arindam Gosh 51, Karn Sharma 56; Praveen Kumar 6-74) vs Uttar Pradesh: 266/7 in 84 overs (P Kumar 30, M Saif 84 batting, E Dwivedi 42, P Chawla 53 batting; Upadhyay 2-32, Anureet Singh 2-51, R Mali 2-56).
Group B: At Ahmedabad: Haryana: 129 all out and 110 all out in 37.1 overs (Sachin Rana 30, J Yadav 33 n.o.; Rush Kalaria 5-26, H Patel 3-29, Powar 2-38) lt to Gujarat 125 all out in 29.2 overs and 115/1 in 18 overs (P Patel 62 n.o., CJ Gandhi 42 n.o.). Gujarat: 6; Haryana: 0.
At Patiala: Delhi: 249 all out in 82.3 overs and 48/0 in 18 overs (U Chand 28) vs Punjab (O/n: 30/2): 263 all out in 79.2 overs (Mandeep Singh 82, Chawla 50, Gurkeerat Singh 57; M Sharma 3-51, V Sood 4-73).
At Cuttack: Saurashtra: 218 all out in 79.3 overs and 64/6 in 34 overs (B Mohanty 2-12, D Behera 3-9) vs Odisha: 88 all out in 40.5 overs (Patel 27; J Unadkat 3-33, Tyagi 5-24).
At Pune: Maharashtra (O/n: 262/4): 342 all out in 108.3 overs (Swapnil Gugale 76, R Motwani 38, A Bawne 100 n.o., Tripathi 43; S Wagh 2-77, Bandiwar 2-85, Thakur 3-94) and 26/0 in 13 overs vs Vidarbha: 114 all out in 48.5 overs (Badrinath 27, Fazal 26; Mundhe 3-14, Dominic Joseph 5-19)
Group C: At Hyderabad: Himachal Pradesh (O/n: 269/5): 511 in 152.5 overs (Paras Dogra 137, Raghav Dhawan 53, Bipul Sharma 176, R Dhawan 69 n.o., ; Pragyan Ojha 4-159, B Sandeep 4-57) vs Hyderabad: 36/0 in 19 overs.
At Ongole: Andhra Pradesh (O/n: 408/ 1): 548/5 in 123 overs (Sirkar Bharat 308, Murumulla Sriram 144, Prashanth 63) vs Goa: 187/8 in 52 overs (Desai 31, Asnodkar 26, Misal 66, Naik 32 batting; Vijaykumar 3-54, Siva Kumar 2-41, Stephen 2-41)
At Kannur: Assam (O/n: 197/4): 344 all out in 157 overs (Kunal Saika 38, Dheeraj Jadhav 93, T Singh 94, S Mohammad 45,; Anthaf 2-38, Amit Verma 3-71, P Prem 3-42) vs Kerala: 52/4 in 20 overs (P Das 3-22).
At Jamshedpur: Services: 230 all out in 59.3 overs vs Jharkhand (O/n: 102/2): 387 all out in 108.3 overs (Ishan Kishan 47, Gautam 150, Jaggi 63, Aaron 48; S Yadav 3-99, Roshan Raj 3-111).