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Seamers continue to dominate

Chennai: Seamers continued to dominate the Ranji Trophy super league Group ‘A’ match between Punjab and Mumbai at the Sector 16 Stadium in Chandigarh — all eight wickets that fell on day two, as indeed the nine from the opening day, fell to the faster men.

At close on Wednesday, the game was poised intriguingly with Mumbai 15 short of Punjab’s first innings score with three wickets in hand.

Early loss

After removing Punjab’s final wicket in the fifth over of the morning, Mumbai began its innings shakily, losing Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane, its two highest scorers from last season, within six overs. Both fell to Love Ablish, playing his first first-class match since his return from the ICL.

Opener Sahil Kukreja and Rohit Sharma then added 51 for the third wicket before Ablish scalped his third wicket, that of Rohit for 25.

From there, Kukreja and Abhishek Nayar took the score to 180 with a brisk fourth-wicket stand of 115 in 28 overs, which ended with Kukreja, 10 short of a hundred, edging Ablish to ‘keeper Uday Kaul. The 24-year-old’s 153-ball knock contained 14 boundaries.

Nayar fell after the addition of just eight more to Mumbai’s total, giving Kaul his third catch of the innings and Manpreet Gony his first wicket.

The left-hander scored 53 off 92 balls, with eight fours. Gony and first-class debutant Harmeet Singh took one more wicket each before Omkar Khanvilkar and Ramesh Powar saw Mumbai through to stumps.

The scores: Super League: At Chandigarh: Punjab 259 in 90.2 overs (Ravi Inder Singh 104, M.S. Gony 41, Zaheer Khan four for 60, A. Agarkar four for 43) vs. Mumbai 244 for seven in 80 overs (S. Kukreja 90, A. Nayar 53, L. Ablish four for 53).

At Delhi: Railways 327 in 134.2 overs (F.Y. Fazal 70, S. Bangar 163 not out) vs. Tamil Nadu 150 for two in 47 overs (M. Vijay 65 batting, K.B. Arun Karthik 47).

At Meerut: Karnataka 405 in 103 overs (R. Dravid 97, M. Pandey 194, Bhuvneshwar Kumar four for 109, S. Srivastava four for 76) vs. Uttar Pradesh 214 for eight in 75 overs (Amir Khan 50 batting, A. Mithun five for 63).

At Vadodara: Delhi 591 in 168.4 overs (S. Dhawan 224, G. Chhabra 65, R. Bhatia 78, M. Tehlan 55, Y. Nagar 55) vs. Baroda 21 for no loss in nine overs.

At Ahmedabad: Gujarat 270 in 100.1 overs (Parthiv Patel 83, R.H. Bhatt 46, Dhiraj Singh four for 97) and four for no loss in five overs vs. Orissa 192 in 70.5 overs (N. Behera 78).

At Pune: Maharashtra 179 and 46 for no loss in 10 overs vs. Bengal 325 in 105.3 overs (M. Tiwary 88, A. Jhunjhunwala 95, S.M. Fallah four for 102).

Plate: At Ranchi: Jharkhand 431 in 122.5 overs (S.S. Tiwary 136, Rajiv Kumar 75, S.P. Gautham 95 not out) vs. Tripura 116 for three in 41 overs.

At Guwahati: Rajasthan 228 and 54 for two in 18 overs vs. Assam 189 in 69.3 overs (P. Aziz 53, Pankaj Singh four for 44, Vivek Yadav four for 28).

At Nagpur: Goa 474 in 149.5 overs (S. Sriram 50, R.J. Pinto 46, A. Ratra 121, S.S. Bandekar 100, Azhar Sheikh four for 71) vs. Vidarbha 113 for two in 28 overs (A. Paunikar 47 batting).

At Indore: Haryana 546 in 143 overs (R. Dewan 71, Sunny Singh 312, Sumeet Sharma 45) vs. Madhya Pradesh 116 for one in 35 overs (J. Saxena 43 batting).

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