Haryana humbled defending champions Saurashtra in their very own yard by 4 wickets in a low-scoring Ranji Trophy sport in Rajkot on Sunday. Resuming day three at 148 for six, Saurashtra stretched their second innings to 220 all out with the assistance of skipper Jaydev Unadkat (23) and Parth Bhut (47), setting a 166-run goal for Haryana. Haryana did expertise some anxious moments earlier than getting house within the ultimate session, having misplaced three fast wickets. Ashok Menaria (58 not out) anchored the chase with Rahul Tewatia (10 not out) staying with him on the different finish.
Saurashtra let the sport slip away from them on the opening day once they had been bundled out for 145 with Jayant Yadav taking a five-wicket haul.
Haryana had made 200 of their first innings with Saurashtra doing properly to dismiss the opposition after the guests made a powerful begin.
The sport was dominated by spinners together with Jayant and Nishant Sindhu from Haryana. From the hosts’ facet, veteran Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Parth Bhut and Yuvrajsinh Jadeja had been the primary wicket takers.
Cheteshwar Pujara made 49 and 43 in his two innings.
It was the primary defeat of the season for Saurashtra who had acquired three factors in opposition to Jharkhand of their opening sport of the season.
For Haryana, it was a well timed consequence as they needed to share some extent every with Rajasthan of their opening sport during which solely 42 overs could possibly be bowled attributable to dangerous gentle.
Bhargav Bhatt takes six wickets as Baroda thrash Puducherry
Exploiting useful circumstances, veteran left-arm spinner Bhargav Bhatt returned a six-wicket haul to guide Baroda to a complete 98-run win over Puducherry of their Ranji Trophy Group D match
The 33-year-old bowler, who had taken a fifer within the first innings, totalled 11 wickets for the match, his fourth 10-wicket haul in first-class cricket.
Baroda, led by Vishnu Solanki, after setting Puducherry 218-run goal for victory, dismissed the opponents for 119 in 35.1 overs on day 3 of the match, with Bhatt (6/46) doing the utmost injury.
He was assisted by younger leg-spinner Mahesh Pithiya, who made full use of the circumstances to seize 4 second-innings wickets as the 2 gradual bowlers made merry taking all 10 wickets.
The day began with the match evenly poised. Baroda had been tottering at 128 for 7. Their innings folded quickly for 154 with Kinit Patel (28) rising the very best scorer.
However, the 218 Baroda scored on day 1 and the way in which their gradual bowlers dismissed Puducherry for 155 to take a helpful 63-run first-innings lead, gave them sufficient cushion to defend the 218-run goal.
Bhatt, after his fantastic 5/49 in his first innings, got here again to demolish Puducherry within the second essay. The left-right mixture of Bhatt and Pithiya didn’t enable the Puducherry batters to cool down even because the deteriorating day 3 pitch did its job.
Gaurav Yadav was the one Puducherry batter to get previous 30 with Bhatt returning an outstanding financial system fee of two.55 in his 18 overs.
(This story has been edited by Mahaz News employees …)
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