Ranji Trophy: Karnataka clinch three points after draw against Mumbai

Riding on the back of a crucial first-innings lead, Karnataka earned three points as they played out a draw against Mumbai their Ranji Trophy Group A game.

The 41-time champions had to settle for just one point as they let Karnataka run away with a massive 195-run lead in the first innings, following a poor effort from their batsmen.

Resuming proceedings at 81/3, Karnataka rode on the back of an unbeaten 71 from Krishnamurthy Siddharth. Siddharth had earlier scored a hundred as Karnataka amassed 400 runs in the first innings.

Mumbai, in reply could manage 205 in their first innings.

Karnataka ended their second innings on 170/5 which gave Mumbai a target of 366 runs to win. The domestic cricketing giants then saw 53 runs each from Surya Kumar Yadav and Akhil Herwadkar. Yadav was undefeated as he ended the day for Mumbai with Aditya Tare accompanying in at the crease.

Brief scores:

At Belagavi: Karnataka 400 and 170/5 Declared (Siddharth K V 71 not out, Stuart Binny 30, Dhawal Kulkarni 2-18) versus Mumbai 205 and 173/4 (Surya Kumar Yadav 53 not out, Akhil Herwadkar 53, Abhimanyu Mithun 2-22). Match Drawn. Karnataka take first innings lead. Karnataka 3 points, Mumbai 1 point.

At Raipur: Chhattisgarh 300 and 219/5 Declared (Sanjeet Desai 67, Karan Thakur 3-44) versus Railways 330 and 70/1 (Nitin Bhille 53 not out). Match drawn. Railways took first-innings lead. Chhattisgarh 1 point; Railways 3 points.

At Nadiad : Gujarat 324 and 329/4 Declared (P K Panchal 141, B H Merai 102 not out) versus Saurashtra 349 and 94/5 (H Desai 50, R H Bhatt 2-12). Match drawn. Saurashtra took first innings lead. Saurashtra 3 points, Gujarat 1 point.

At Nagpur: Vidarbha 529/6 Declared versus Baroda 337 and 216/0 (Kedar Devdhar 101 not out, Aditya Waghmode 102 not out). Match drawn. Vidarbha took first innings lead. Vidarbha 3 points, Baroda 1 point.

Brief scores (End of Day 4): Andhra 216 all out in 89.5 overs (Girinath Reddy 86 not out, Jyothisaikrishna 58, M Mohammed 4 for 70, T Natarajan 3 for 36, Sai Kishore 3 for 29) and 8 for no loss vs Tamil Nadu 254 all out 112.4 overs (B Aparajith 57, M Kaushik Gandhi 38, J Kousik 33, I Karthik Raman 3 for 52). Match drawn. Points: TN: 3, Andhra: 1.

At Indore: Punjab 293 all out in 84.4 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 124, Gurkeerat Mann 66, Kuldeep Sen 5 for 62, Avesh Khan 4 for 77) and 265 for 9 in 68 overs (Abhishek Sharma 78, Mandeep Singh 65 n.o, Jiwanjot Singh 39, Ishwar Pandey 4 for 59) vs Madhya Pradesh 315 all out in 124.2 overs (Rajat Patidar 73, Naman Ojha 51, Yash Dubey 65 not out, Mayank Markande 4 for 70) and 67 for 1 in 35 overs. Match drawn. Points: MP: 3, Punjab: 1.

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad 460 all out in 170.3 overs (Tanmay Agarwal 120, T Ravi Teja 115 not out, Himalay Agarwal 66, C V Milind 58, Gourav Kumar 3 for 50) vs Delhi 339 in 128.1 overs (Hiten Dalal 93, Nitish Rana 82, Lalit Yadav 77, Tanay Thyagarajan 5 for 77). Match drawn. Points: Hyderabad: 3, Delhi: 1.

Ranchi: Rajasthan 100 and 379 versus Jharkhand 152 and 235 (Ishank Jaggi 51, Rahul Chahar 5-77, Nathu Singh 2-55). Rajasthan won by 92 runs. Rajasthan 6 points.

Rohtak: Haryana 276 and 185 versus Goa 177 and 141 (Suyash Prabhudessai 36, Ashish Hooda 6-54, Harsh Patel 3-40). Haryana won by 143 runs. Haryana 6 points.

Srinagar: Tripura 124 and 358 (S K Patel 112, Pratyush Singh 59, Waseem Raza 6-78) v Jammu and Kashmir 442 all out and 43/2 (Paras Sharma 23). Jammu and Kashmir won by 8 wickets. Jammu and Kashmir 6 points.

New Delhi (Palam): Services 260 and 225/2 (Ravi Chauhan 114 not out, N K Singh 86, Ankit Rajpoot 1-48) vs Uttar Pradesh 535 for 9 declared. Match drawn. Uttar Pradesh took first innings lead.