Ranji Trophy: Siddhesh Lad lead Mumbai’s fightback against Maharashtra

Stand-in captain Siddhesh Lad and the Mumbai bowlers staged a fightback for their team on the second day of their match against Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy.

They ended their day’s effort at 196/5, 156 runs short of Maharashtra’s first innings score of 352. Medium pacer Akash Parkar was the best bowler for Mumbai with four wickets at the cost of 56 runs.

But Lad was the one who continued Mumbai’s fightback in the match. In his 151-run knock which yielded 70 runs, he hit nine fours and a six and stitched a 109-run stand with veteran opener Aditya Tare (63). Just when it looked as if the going got easier for the 41-time Ranji Trophy champions, Maharashtra pegged their innings back with three quick dismissals.

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Tare’s wicket was followed by Surya Kumar Yadav (12), Arman Jaffer (6) and Shivam Dubey (4) fall with poor scores as Mumbai were reduced to a 181/5 from 143/2.

Summarised scores:
At Pune: Maharashtra 352 (Swapnil Gugale 101, J S Pande 74; Akash Parkar 4-56) versus Mumbai 196/5 (Siddesh Lad 70 not out, Aditya Tare 63, Ashay Palkar 2-37).

At Rajkot: Saurashtra 316 (Jaydev Shah 97, K Makwana 46; J Suchith 6-111) versus Karnataka 217 (Karun Nair 63, Dega Nischal 58, D A Jadeja 7-103).

At Vadodara: Chhattisgarh 129 and 174/4 (Avnish Singh 79, Harpreet Singh Bhatia 43) versus Baroda 385 (Yusuf Pathan 129 not out, Bhargav Bhatt 67; Onkar Verma 4-84).

At Valsad: Gujarat 367 (Piyush Chawla 130, Priyank Panchal 69; Amit Mishra 4-93) versus Railways 266/3 (Nitin Bhille 109 not out, Arindam Ghosh 69 not out, C T Gaja 1-33).

Delhi 190 for 1 (Gautam Gambhir 92*, Hiten Dalal 58) trail Andhra 390 all out (Ricky Bhui 187; Subodh Bhati 5 for 48) by 200 runs.

Tamil Nadu 268 in 98 overs (M Shahrukh Khan 92 not out (155b, 8×4, 1×6), B Indrajith 87, M Mohammed 29, Sandeep Warrier 5 for 52, Basil Thampi 4 for 62) vs Kerala 151 for 9 in 75 overs (P Rahul 59 (116b, 5×4, 1×6), Sijomon Joseph 28 batting, T Natarajan 3 for 42, Rahil Shah 3 for 32).

At Mohali: Himachal Pradesh 390 all out in 145.1 overs (R R Dhawan 61, N R Gangta 58, A Kalsi 82, M Dagar 71, Sandeep Sharma 5 for 101) vs Punjab 75 for 9 in 30 overs (M J Dagar 4 for 22).

At Indore: Hyderabad 124 all out in 35.3 overs (Himalay Agarwal 69 not out, Avesh Khan 7 for 24) vs Madhya Pradesh 539 for 4 in 136 overs (Ajay Rohera 255 batting, Rajat Patidar 51, Yash Dubey 128 batting).