Ranji Trophy round up: Group B and C

Group B:


Delhi pick up seven points against Orissa

Delhi 331 (Manhas 161*, Narwal 66, Mohanty 4-81) and 82 for 0 (Dhawan 55*) beat Odisha 143 (Natraj Behera 35, Manan Sharma 4-30) and 269 (Podder 85, Suyal 5-93) by 10 wickets

Delhi bounced back from their defeat in the previous game to beat Orissa by 10 wickets. Shikhar Dhawan helped knock of the 82 runs in just 15 overs after the bowlers had not allowed Orissa to cross 270 in their second innings. Mithun Manhas top scored in this game with 161 during Delhi's first innings.

Karnataka edge TN for 3 points on turner

Tamil Nadu 538 for 4 dec. (D Karthik 154*, Aparajith 112, Prasanna 74*, Badrinath 72, Abhinav 51, A Karthik 50) drew with Karnataka 562 for 6 (Satish 200*, Gautam 130*, Pawan 69, Uthappa 53)

Karnataka sealed the points in the final session on the final day and allowed Satish to reach his maiden double hundred against Tamil Nadu. The spinners though would be disappointed with their performances on a track that was turning square from the first day.

Maharashtra and UP play out score draw

Maharashtra 764 for 6 dec. (Jadhav 327, Motwani 147, Atitkar 80, Bawne 78, Khadiwale 68) drew withUttar Pradesh 669 for 7 (Srivastava 179, Chawla 156*, Dagar 126, Alam 70, B Kumar 62*)

Both sides would be bitterly disappointed with this result as nobody could secure first innings points. Maharashtra batted into the third day in an effort to deny Uttar Pradhesh points. The hosts would have to be content with just one point though as the first innings could not be completed. The pitch has recieved flak from both UP bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad as well as Suresh Raina.

This Pune track has redefined flat pitches.

Other Results:

Vidarbha 264 (Badani 111*, Shrivastava 63) and 218 for 4 (Fazal 98, Shrivastava 65*) drew with Baroda514 for 7 dec. (Solanki 120, Chauhan 118, Yusuf Pathan 78, Waghmode 62, Rayudu 58) 

Group C:

Assam beat Jharkand in close fought encounter

Assam 179 (Sunny Gupta 4-56, Nadeem 4-65) and 207 (Sinha 55, Tajinder 53*, Nadeem 4-83) beat Jharkhand 174 (Nemat 53, Konwar 6-67) and 159 (Nemat 42, Syed Mohammad 5-52, Konwar 4-72) by 53 runs

The spinners delivered Assam their first win of the season as they beat Jharkand in Jamshedpur. Syed Mohammad picked up 5 in the forth innings for his side. Saurabh Tiwary was unable to help his side chase down 213 in the fourth innings.

Other Results:

Jammu & Kashmir 338 (Rassol 171, Desai 4-24) and 95 for 6 (Jakati 4-26) drew with Goa 406 for 6 dec. (Asnodkar 103, Desai 85, Bisla 80, Pinto 53*)

Services 312 (Desai 61, Chatarjee 54, Anshul Gupta 54, Paliwal 52, Dhawan 3-80, Malik 3-89) and 314 for 4 (Swain 118*, Gupta 64, Yashpal 59*) drew with Himachal Pradesh 544 for 6 dec. (Dogra 210, Amit Kumar 91, P Chopra 90, A Chopra 65) 

Tripura 260 (Abbas Ali 103, Atchuta Rao 3-41) and 170 for 4 (Roy 81) drew with Andhra 436 for 8 dec. (Prasanth 119, Watekar 116, Sumanth 83)

Points Tables:

Group B

Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	Aban	Pts	Quotient	For	Against
Uttar Pradesh	2	1	0	0	1	0	7	1.153	1230/21	1321/26
Delhi	2	1	1	0	0	0	7	1.130	970/30	973/34
Vidarbha	2	1	0	0	1	0	7	1.000	724/26	752/27
Baroda	2	0	0	0	2	0	6	1.247	1169/27	868/25
Karnataka	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	1.122	948/17	1193/24
Tamil Nadu	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0.923	605/7	562/6
Maharashtra	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.332	764/6	669/7
Odisha	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.558	412/20	480/13
Haryana	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.590	238/20	242/12

Group C

Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	Aban	Pts	Quotient	For	Against
Assam	2	2	0	0	0	0	13	1.419	898/30	844/40
Jharkhand	2	1	1	0	0	0	7	1.293	710/30	732/40
Himachal Pradesh	2	0	0	0	2	0	6	2.430	1080/12	1111/30
Andhra	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	1.263	687/18	786/26
Services	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0.760	982/26	795/16
Goa	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	2.500	406/6	433/16
Tripura	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.526	941/34	948/18
Jammu & Kashmir	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0.442	779/36	783/16
Kerala	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.339	485/16	536/6

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

Internationals picked to represent states in the Ranji Trophy

Most of India's international stars are poised to take the field for their state sides come November 2. Both Delhi and Mumbai picked their major internationals to take part in the first round of matches in the Ranji trophy.

Both Zaheer Khan and Sachin Tendulkar were picked for Mumbai's opening fixture against Railways. Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Virat Kohli are expected to play in Delhi's opening match.