The Hindu : Ranji Trophy: second round ties from today

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Sunday, Nov 17, 2002

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Ranji Trophy: second round ties from today

CHENNAI NOV. 16. The second round matches in the Ranji Trophy Elite and Plate groups will commence at various venues across the country on Sunday.

Defending champion Indian Railways, which finished on the wrong side of the drawn encounter against Delhi in the Elite group A last week, will try and make the most of its four-day contest against Rajasthan at Jaipur.

Delhi, on the other hand, locks horns with Mumbai in Mumbai. The West Zone powerhouse is, in fact, on a high after scoring an outright victory over Hyderabad and will be bolstered by the return of allrounder Ajit Agarkar.

In the other Elite A matches, Andhra, which gained first innings honours over Himachal Pradesh, takes on Hyderabad at home while Bengal meets Himachal in Kolkata.

In the Elite group B, strong contender Tamil Nadu, with a new look and new skipper in S. Suresh, opens its campaign at home against last year's runner-up Baroda.

The other group B fixtures are between Orissa and Punjab at Cuttack and Gujarat and Assam at Ahmedabad.

There are three matches in the plate championship:

Bihar takes on Karnataka at home, MP meets Maharashtra at Indore and J&K locks horns with Haryana at home.

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