Ranji Trophy: Punjab secure dominant win over Delhi; Bengal in line for a victory

Punjab dominated Delhi and defeated them convincingly by 10 wickets to clinch their first victory of the season in this edition of the Ranji Trophy.

This was Delhi’s first loss at home in five years in the history of the competition. The result justified the dominance Punjab had on the game right from the first day itself. This thorough win thus hands them a total of seven points.

Delhi could only muster 179 runs in their second innings courtesy efforts from Pulkit Narang (31) and Pulkit Sood (25). Requiring just five runs for the win, they scored it easily within 2.1 overs with openers Jiwanjot Singh and Abhishek Sharma doing the honours.

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In Chennai, it was the part-time off-spin bowling of Writtick Chatterjee that came to Bengal’s aid against Tamil Nadu on Friday.

Chatterjee’s heroics with the ball helped Bengal dismiss Tamil Nadu for 141 which now means that they would have to chase down a total of 216 runs to win their match this season.

Summarised scores: At Kanpur: Rajasthan 311 and 136/4 (Amitkumar Gautam 66 not out, Robin Bist 32, Ankit Rajpoot 2-31) versus Uttar Pradesh 214 (Upendra Yadav 67, Suresh Raina 33, Aniket Chaudhary 5-64). Rajasthan lead by 233 runs.

At Guwahati: Assam 310 versus Haryana 97 and 178 (Chaitanya Bishnoi 78, Poonish Mishra 70 not out, Arup Das 4-37). Assam won by an innings and 35 runs.

At Cuttack: Odisha 212 and 111/5 (Subranshu Senapati 43 not out, Rajesh Dhuper 37, Manisankar Murasingh 4-37) versus Tripura 122 and 304 (M B Mura Singh 75, Basant Mohanty 4-53). Odisha need 104 runs to win.

At New Delhi (Palam): Jammu and Kashmir 95 and 261 (Parvez Rasool 115, Waseem Raza 30, Arun Bamal 4-93) versus Services 252 and 67/5 (Aanshul Gupta 21, Parvez Rasool 2-11). Services need 38 runs to win.

At Porvorim: Goa 364 and 10/1 versus Jharkhand 390 (Anukul Roy 127, Utkarsh Singh 75, Amulya Pandrekar 3-78). Goa trail by 16 runs.

Tamil Nadu 263 all out in 106 overs (B Aparajith 103, M Kaushik Gandhi 51, Ishan Porel 5 /48, Pradipta Pramanik 3/82) and 141 all out in 62.5 overs (N Jagadeesan 38, Writtick Bijoy Chatterjee 5 /22) vs Bengal 189 all out in 63.5 overs (Abhishek Raman 98, Rahil Shah 5 /46, M Mohammed 4 /39) and 87 for 2 in 30 overs (Abhishek Raman 53).

At Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala 62 and 390 for 8 in 102 overs (Sachin Baby 143, Vishnu Vinod 155 batting, Kuldeep Sen 3 for 63) vs Madhya Pradesh 328 all out in 120 overs (Rajat Patidar 73, Naman Ojha 79, Jalaj Saxen 4 /20).

Himachal Pradesh 351 all out in 126.4 overs (P S Chopra 110, M J Dagar 61, Tanay Thyagarajan 4/86) vs Hyderabad 352 all out in 130.5 overs (Akshat Reddy 99, T Ravi Teja 75, Arpit Gulera 3/64).

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