Ranji Trophy round up: Group A

Punjab post second win

Punjab 579 for 7 dec. (Uday Kaul 165*, Jiwanjot 158, Sidhana 115, Amitoze 52) beat Bengal 326 (Saha 98, Shukla 62, Rahul Sharma 4-53) and 226 (Shukla 91*, Saha 57, Gony 5-41, Siddarth Kaul 4-58) by an innings and 27 runs

Punjab picked up their second win in as many games to top group A by thumping Bengal at Mohali. This is their second win with a bonus point and was possible thanks to Manpreet Gony's sixth first-class five for on the final day after the batsman, led by Uday Kaul's second hundred in as many games, racked up 579 before declaring.

Manpreet Gony during his five wicket haul.

Saurashtra take first innings points in high scorer

Gujarat 600 for 9 dec. (Bhatt 160*, Juneja 159, Smit Patel 61, Parthiv Patel 56) drew with Saurashtra 716 for 3 (Jadeja 303*, Jogiyani 282)

Ravindra Jadeja and Sagar Jogiyani nearly broke a pre-independence era record but fell 38 runs short. The pair 

put on 539 runs together before Jogiyani was dismissed on a paved highway like surface at Surat. The pair helped Saurashtra to pick up their first points of the season after overhauling Gujarat's score of 600.

MP collect first innings points

Hyderabad 341 (Laxman 120, Vihari 81, Pandey 4-88, Rajan 4-64) and 8 for 0 drew with Madhya Pradesh438 for 8 dec. (Bundela 142, Jalaj Saxena 142, Birla 52)

Madhya Pradesh managed to overhaul Hyderbad 341 to claim first innings point. VVS Laxman got a hundred for Hyderabad while Jalaj Saxena and Devendra Bundela got twin 142's for MP. 

Mumbai pick up points despite wobble

Rajasthan 478 (Kanitkar 119, Saxena 114, Yagnik 76*) drew with Mumbai 579 (Hiken Shah 140, Nayar 105*, Tare 80, Rohit Sharma 79, Kaustubh Pawar 53)

Mumbai picked up their second set of 3 points against Rajasthan in Jaipur. Hundreds from Abhisek Nayar and Hiken Shah helped the team, led by Rohit Sharma, to overcome Rajasthan's 478. Mumbai suffered a bit of a wobble on the final day as they went from 405-3 to 420-6 but Abhisek Nayar saw them through that period and guided them past Rajasthan. 

This is what the Table looks like after 2 rounds:

Group A

Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	Aban	Pts	Quotient	For	Against
Punjab	2	2	0	0	0	0	14	3.356	1144/13	1049/40
Mumbai	2	0	0	0	2	0	6	1.220	1379/25	904/20
Madhya Pradesh	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0.972	939/25	1005/26
Gujarat	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0.821	1256/25	1224/20
Saurashtra	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	3.580	716/3	600/9
Bengal	2	0	1	0	1	0	3	0.580	1042/39	921/20
Rajasthan	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0.967	820/23	1069/29
Railways	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.799	426/10	800/15
Hyderabad	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.396	846/30	996/14