Ranji Trophy: Shreyas Iyer slams hundred on return as Mumbai dominate Baroda

Young batsman Shreyas Iyer helped Mumbai dominate proceedings on the first day’s play in the Ranji Trophy match against Baroda on Friday.

The right-hander played a classy innings of 178 runs featuring 11 sixes and 17 fours and added 200 runs with captain Siddhesh Lad (130) as the 41-time national champions ended the day with 439/8 on the board.

This was after a returning Hardik Pandya scalped two quick wickets to push Mumbai on the backfoot.

Iyer, who joined the Mumbai side a day ago after returning from India A’s tour of New Zealand A didn’t show signs of any jetlag as he took on the Baroda attack fearlessly. Playing his first match of the season, he showed character and resilience as he slammed his 12th first-class hundred.

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It was he and Lad who bailed out the side, which was once tottering at 28/2.

Meanwhile, Priyank Panchal’s 94 went in vain as Gujarat could only muster 216 in their first innings against Karnataka. Prateek Jain, Krishnappa Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Vinay Kumar and Ronit More scalped two each.

Brief scores:

At Mumbai: Mumbai 439 for 8 (Siddhesh Lad 130, Shreyas Iyer 178, Shubham Ranjane 42, Shivam Dube 37; Hardik Pandya 3-74, Bhargav Bhatt 4-68) versus Baroda.

At Surat: Gujarat 216 all out (Priyank Panchal 74, Piyush Chawla 34, Shreyas Gopal 2-21) versus Karnataka 45 for 2. Karnataka trail by 171 runs.

At New Delhi (Karnail Singh Stadium): Vidarbha 243 for 6 (Faiz Fazal 53, A W Wadkar 48, Avinash Yadav 3-69) versus Railways.

At Nashik: Saurashtra 269/3 (Vishvarajsinh Jadeja 97, Snell Patel 84, Anup Sanklecha 2-84) versus Maharashtra.

Summarised scores:

At Mumbai: Mumbai 439 for 8 (Siddhesh Lad 130, Shreyas Iyer 178, Shubham Ranjane 42, Shivam Dube 37; Hardik Pandya 3-74, Bhargav Bhatt 4-68) versus Baroda.

At Surat: Gujarat 216 all out (Priyank Panchal 74, Piyush Chawla 34, Shreyas Gopal 2-21) versus Karnataka 45 for 2. Karnataka trail by 171 runs.

At New Delhi (Karnail Singh Stadium): Vidarbha 243 for 6 (Faiz Fazal 53, A W Wadkar 48, Avinash Yadav 3-69) versus Railways.

At Nashik: Saurashtra 269/3 (Vishvarajsinh Jadeja 97, Snell Patel 84, Anup Sanklecha 2-84) versus Maharashtra.

Bengal 99 for 1 (Abhimanyu Easwaran 57*, Sudip Chatterjee 32) against Hyderabad.

Himachal Pradesh 51/1 (Prashant Chopra 32*) trail Andhra 173 all out (Jyothi Sai Krishna 74, Manish Golamaru 32; Pankaj Jaiswal 5 for 50) by 122 runs.