Ranji Trophy: Mukund’s double ton takes Tamil Nadu to 693/8
December 14th, 2011 - 10:54 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Abhinav Mukund smashed a double century (220) as Tamil Nadu piled up 693/8 against Gujarat on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Elite League match in Ahmedabad Wednesday.
The other major contributors for Tamil Nadu were Subramaniam Badrinath (102), Dinesh Karthik (135) and K.Vasudevadas (105).
At Kolkata, Delhi were bowled out for 392 with Rajat Bhatia scoring an unbeaten 163 and Shikhar Dhawan 76. The visitors, however, fought back and left Bengal reeling at 84/4. Left-arm seamer Pradeep Sangwan took two wickets.
Bengal, who are fighting relegation, will look upto Manoj Tiwary (24 not out) to deliver.
Vineet Saxena (127) and Puneet Yadav (108) struck centuries for defending champions Rajasthan who were all out for 396. Promising Jaydev Unadkat (5-71) and Siddharth Trivedi shone with the ball.
Rajasthan then reduced Saurashtra to 215/7 with pacer Pankaj Singh taking four wickets.
Brief scores (Elite Division)
Group A:
At Delhi: Railways 379 all out in 144.4 overs (Mahesh Rawat 103 not out, SS Shukla 96, Biplab Samantray 3-62, Basant Mohanty 2-48, A Mangaraj 2-45) vs Orissa 108 in 33 overs (Paresh Patel 41 not out, Subhrajit Sahoo 60 not out)
At Lucknow: Mumbai 414/9 in 134 overs (Sushant Marathe 102, Hiken Shah 56, Wassim Jaffer 55; Imtiyaz Ahmed 3-50) vs. Uttar Pradesh
At Bangalore: Punjab 357 all out in 114.3 overs (Sarul Kanwar 89, Karan Goel 71; M Sidhana 92; Neravanda Aiyappa 3-49. KP Appanna 2-105, SN Raju 2-80) vs. Karnataka 183/5 (Stuart Binny 69 not out, CM Gautam 40 not out; Bipul Sharma 2-35)
At Jaipur: Rajasthan 396 all out in 98.4 overs (Vineet Saxena 127, Puneet Yadav 108; Siddharth Trivedi 4-81, Jaydev Unadkat 5-71) vs. Saurashtra 215/7 in 74 overs (BM Chauhan 71, Cheteshwar Pujara 78, Pankaj Singh 4-49)
Group B:
At Kolkata: Delhi 392 all out in 138.1 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 76, Rajat Bhatia not out 163; Puneet Bisht 40, Ashok Dinda 4-89, Iresh Saxena 3-72) vs. Bengal 84/4 (Manoj Tiwary not out 24, Pradeep Sangwan 2-16)
At Ahmedabad: Tamil Nadu 693/8 in 180 overs (Abhinav Mukund 220, Subramaniam Badrinath 102; Dinesh Karthik 135, K Vasudevadas 105, Parth Parikh 3-226, J Karia 3-86, Ishwar Chaudhary 2-117) vs. Gujarat
At Rohtak: Madhya Pradesh 487 all out 163.3 overs (Naman Ojha 160, Devendra Bundela 112, Murtaza Ali 72, Ashish Hooda 4-117, Harshal Patel 2-75, Yuzvendra Chahal 3-67) vs Haryana 22/5 (TP Sudhindra 4-11)
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