By IANS,
New Delhi : Ravindra Jadeja’s triple century powered Saurashtra to 545 in their first innings against Orissa at Cuttack on the second day of Ranji Trophy elite division ties that saw huge scores from Karnataka, Mumbai and Bengal Friday.
Jadeja showed his all-round potential, carrying on from overnight 141 not out and leading the batting with a scintillating 314. He took 375 balls and struck 29 fours and nine sixes. Orissa’s Basant Mohanty took four wickets. In reply, the hosts reached 51 for no loss at stumps.
Mumbai and Karnataka too piled up huge first-innings totals, courtesy Rohit Sharma’s 175 and K.B Pawan’s 220 for their teams respectively.
Rohit, who was at overnight 133 against the Railways at the Karnail Singh Stadium here, continued in the same vein as Mumbai reached 483. His 175 came in 287 balls with the help of 20 fours and one six. Mumbai then reduced the Railways to 66/3 with seasoned off-spinner Ramesh Powar taking two wickets.
At Udaipur, Pawan and Stuart Binny (151) carried Karnataka to 562 for six against champions Rajasthan. They were supported by Manish Pandey (58) and Amit Verma (69).
At Kolkata, Bengal declared their first innings at 560 for six against Gujarat with wicket-keeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha top-scoring with 167 not out.
Delhi managed well to bowl out Haryana for 293 with left-arm seamer Pradeep Sangwan claiming five for 67. At stumps, Delhi were 214 for three with Milind Kumar (84) and Rajat Bhatia (57) at crease.
In the plate division, Tripura’s medium pacer Timir Chanda took eight wickets against Himachal Pradesh, who notched up 531 with Paras Dogra scoring an unbeaten 205.
Scores: Elite Division:
Udaipur: Karnataka 562 for six in 150 overs (K. B. Pawan 220 batting, Manish Pandey 58, Amit Verma 69, Stuart Binny 151, Pankaj Singh 3 for 108, Sumit Mathur 2 for 127) vs Rajasthan 49 for two (Vineet Saxena batting 20).
Mohali: Punjab 350 in 104.5 overs (Sarul Kanwar 38, Karan Goel 68, Mandeep Singh 175 not out, Mayank Sidhana 37, R. P. Singh 5 for 72, Bhuvanesh Kumar 4 for 82) Uttar Pradesh 221 for 3 (Tanmay Srivastava 62, Mohammad Kaif 65, Parvinder Singh batting 57).
Delhi: Mumbai 483 in 141.3 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 31, Wasim Jaffer 33, Rohit Sharma 175, Suryakumar Yadav 88, Iqbal Abdulla 25, Ankeet Chavan 44, Ramesh Powar 30, Dhawal Kulkarni 26, Shreyas Khanolkar 5 for 78); Railways 66 for 3 in 23 overs (Shivakant Shukla 33, Ramesh Powar 2 for 18).
Cuttack: Saurashtra 545 in 159 overs (Bhushan Chauhan 83,Ravindra Jadeja 314, Pratik Mehta 39, Basant Mohanty 4 for 86, Deepak Behra 2 for 115, Jayanta Behera 2 for 93) Orissa 51 for no loss in 18 overs(Bikas Pati batting 34).
GROUP B:
Calcutta: Bengal 560 for 6 decl. in 172 overs (Arindam Ghosh 29, Manoj Tiwari 132, Sourav Ganguly 34, Wriddhiman Saha 167 not out, Lakshmi Ratan Shukla 78, Saurashish Lahiri 71 not out, Priyank Panchal 2 for 41) Gujarat 10 for no loss in six overs.
Delhi: Haryana 293 in 96.5 overs (Sunny Singh 51, Abhimanyu Khod 68, Sachin Rana 80, Pradeep Sangwan 5 for 67, Parvinder Awana 3 for 95) Delhi 214 for 3 in 73 overs (Milind Kumar batting 84, Mithun Manhas 29, Rajat Bhatia batting 57).
Chennai: Tamil Nadu vs Baroda, no play on second day too owing to rain.
Plate Division:
GROUP A:
Agartala: Himachal Pradesh 531 in 138.4 overs (Abhinav Bal 122, Paras Dogra batting 205, S. Sriram 54, Ajay Ratra 39, Rishi Dhawan 55, Timir Chanda 8 for 127) Tripura 91/1.
Palam: Andhra 219 in 99.1 overs (Boddapati Sumanth 70, Ganga Pradeep 80, Suraj Yadav 4 for 46, Nishan Singh 4 for 59) Services: 95 all out in 61 overs (SM Swain 37; KS Sahabuddin 5-21); Andhra: second innings 31/1.
Nagpur: Vidarbha 514 for 7 in 164.1 overs (Aniruddha Chore 28, Shiv Sundar das 30, Ravi Jangid 27, Salabh Shrivastava 104,Hemang Badani 32, Ranjit Paradkar batting 157, Sairaj Bahutule 61 not out, Padmanabhan Prasanth 5 for 93) vs Kerala 24 for no loss (AM Hegde batting 5, VA Jagadeesh batting 19).
GROUP B:
Hyderabad: Hyderabad 373 for 7 in 139 overs (Akshath Reddy 61, Dwaraka Ravi Teja 73, Bavanaka Sandeep 61, Arjun Yadav 43, Syed Quadri batting 77, Shahbaz Nadeem 3 for 126) vs Jharkhand.
Srinagar: No play on second day. Assam 297 for four in 90 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 135 batting, Sibsankar Roy 26, Tarjinder Singh 44, Gokul Sharma 46 batting, Raman Datta 2 for 56) vs Jammu & Kashmir.
Porvorim (Goa): Maharashtra 443 in 148 overs (Sangram Atitkar 52, Nikhil Paradkar 67, Ankit Bawne 67, Rohit Motwani 91, Kedar Jadhav 45, Shrikant Mundhe 41, Robin D’Souza 5 for 94, Saurabh Bandekar 2 for 77); Goa 48 for 2 in 24 overs (S. Asnodkar 13).