Left-arm spinner Ninad Rathva received right here up with career-best match figures as Baroda crushed Meghalaya by an innings and 261 runs in under two days to earn a bonus stage of their Ranji Trophy Group A match Thursday. If day one belonged to off-spinner Mahesh Pithiya, who grabbed 6/25 to dismiss the opponents for merely 103 runs, Rathva wreaked havoc inside the second innings, returning figures of 6/28 as a result of the opponents have been bundled out for 78 in merely 17.5 overs. Rathva, 25, recorded match figures of seven/59, his best inside the 14 first-class recreation he has carried out to date, whereas Mahesh added three additional wickets to his first-innings haul of six to moreover finish alongside together with his career-best match haul of 9/71.
On a wicket that assisted flip, Baroda pressed the two spinners into service immediately after ending their innings at 442 early on day two. With a big first-innings lead of 339 runs, Baroda went for the kill and, to their delight, observed the rival batters falling like ninepins.
An entire of 4 Meghalaya batters went for duck, whereas 5 had single-digit figures with the injured remaining batter unable to take the sector.
Former Baroda participant Arpit Bhatewara, who now performs for Meghalaya, fought a lonely battle sooner than he was lastly dismissed by Rathva for 46 off 48 balls.
Earlier, Baroda, commencing at their in a single day ranking of 308 for six, flayed the feeble Meghalaya assault sooner than being dismissed for 442 in 71.3 overs.
Overnight batter Shashwat Rawat, who was batting on 90, achieved his century sooner than he was dismissed for 121 off merely 128 balls as Baroda crossed the 400-run mark. Rathva carried out an unbeaten cameo of 33 (19 balls) as a result of the hosts made a mockery of the Meghalaya assault.
Kumar Kushagra’s brisk ton takes Jharkhand to 356/9 vs Delhi
Promising wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra struck a breezy unbeaten 133 to steer Jharkhand to 356 for 9 on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group D match in the direction of Delhi proper right here on Thursday.
The 20-year-old Kushagra, who was bought by Delhi Capitals for Rs 7.2 crores nevertheless launched early this month after participating in merely 4 matches in 2024 IPL, hit 14 boundaries and 5 sixes all through his strokeful 166-ball unbeaten innings.
Courtesy Kushagra’s aggressive ton, Jharkhand added 220 runs for the dearth of six wickets from 70 overs carried out on Day 2 on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The visitors had begun the day at 136 for 3.
Sharandeep Singh added merely two runs to his in a single day 64 to be the first Jharkhand batter to get out.
Coming out to bat on the autumn of Sharandeep, Kushagra stitched 93 runs for the fifth wicket with captain Virat Singh (56 off 125 balls) to swell the visiting side’s full. He then shared one different 59 runs with Manishi (14) for the eighth wicket to lastly take Jharkhand earlier the 350-run mark.
With merely two days left inside the match, Jharkhand have positioned themselves in a strong place inside the match.
For Delhi, Simarjeet Singh, Money Grewal and Sumit Mathur have to date taken two wickets apiece, whereas Siddhant Sharma and Ayush Badoni purchased a wicket each.
On Day 1 on Wednesday, Sharandeep scored a dogged half-century as Jharkhand batters have been painstakingly gradual of their technique.
They improved their run cost a bit on Thursday — above three per over.
Having misplaced to Chattisgarh inside the remaining recreation, Delhi, of their remaining home recreation of the season, made wholesale modifications under new skipper Ayush Badoni.
Brief Scores:
In Vadodara: Meghalaya 103 and 78 in 17.5 overs (Arpit Bhatewara 46; Mahesh Pithiya 3/46, Ninad Rathva 6/28) misplaced to Baroda 442 in 71.3 overs (Jyotsnil Singh 121, Shivalik Sharma 42, Mitesh Patel 51, Shashwat Rawat 121; Bijon Dey 3/123, Dippu Sangma 3/53) by an innings and 261 runs.
In Delhi: Jharkhand 1st Innings 356 for 9 in 125 overs (Sharandeep Singh 64, Kumar Kushagra 133 not out; Simarjeet Singh 2/43, Money Grewal 2/65, Sumit Mathur 2/52) vs Delhi.
In Cuttack: Maharashtra 162 and 78 for 3 in 27 overs (Sachin Dhas 38) vs Odisha 200 in 82.2 overs overs (Swastik Samal 116; Sandeep Pattnaik 41; Rajneesh Gurbani 3/38, Ramakrishna Ghosh 3/50). Maharashtra lead by 40 runs.
In Jammu: Tripura 165 and 170 for 7 in 46 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 45,Srinivas Sharath batting 39; Auqib Nabi 3/35) vs Jammu & Kashmir 175 in 57.4 overs (Shubham Khajuria 57; Manisankar Murasingh 5/68, Abhijit Sarkar 3/42). Tripura lead by 160 runs.
In Delhi: Services 240 in 81 overs (Mohit Ahlawat 76, Shubham Rohilla 56; Shardul Thakur 4/46, Mohit Avasthi 2/44) vs Mumbai 253 for 8 in 63 overs (Ayush Mhatre 116, Shreyas Iyer 47; Pulkit Narang 3/47). Muymbai lead by 13 runs.
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