Spurred by Chirag Jani's a five-wicket haul, defending champions Saurashtra scripted their first knockout win of the season with a 238-run thrashing of Vidarbha on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match in Nagpur on Sunday.
A summary of Ranji matches played on Tuesday.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Wednesday
Skipper Mayank Agarwal hit a double century to help Karnataka post 407 in their first innings
Mumbai's Yashasvi Jaiswal and Armaan Jaffer to put Uttar Pradesh on the back-foot by taking their overall lead past the 600-mark
Abhimanyu Easwaran dropped anchor at one end as his 97-run stand with Shreevats Goswami enabled Bengal to reach 185 for four against Madhya Pradesh on the first day of their final group league encounter of the Ranji Trophy, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
In December, Aryaman Birla made a decision that would surprise many: he announced an 'indefinite sabbatical' from cricket.
Bengal in their first innings were 195 for the loss of three wickets against host Gujarat.
Half centuries by Rohan Gavaskar and Arindam Das enabled Bengal scored 208 for 3 on the opening day against Karnataka.
A summary of Ranji Trophy matches played on Tuesday
Medium pacer Swapnil Hazare claimed five wickets as Bengal were shot out for 171 in the first innings of their Ranji Trophy match against Mumbai.
Shivam Dube carried his rich recent form into domestic circuit cracking a rapid fifty but Shreyas Gopal's four-wicket haul ensured that Mumbai were bowled out for 251
A top CAB source told PTI that Deep Dasgupta would replace Ganguly as Bengal skipper.
Chasing a victory target of 237, Baroda folded up for 173 runs on the third day of the five-day Ranji Trophy semi-final to hand Mumbai a 63-run victory.
A round-up of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
While the pace department needs some urgent solutions, the spin has a slightly different landscape.
Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly responded in the affirmative to an SOS from his beleaguered state side.
Himachal Pradesh, who were bowled out for 130 in their first innings, were 79 for one at stumps on day three needing another 393 runs for an improbable win.
Rohan Gavaskar took moral responsibility for the unimpressive display put up by the side this season.
Bengal entered the final of the Ranji Trophy championship, beating Baroda in the semi-finals by virtue of the first innings lead.
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played across India on Monday
For MP, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya and Anubhav Agarwal also took two wickets apiece. MP got seven points from the win. The outright-winning team gets six points while a victory of an innings or 10-wickets fetches seven points.
Buoyed by his call-up into the Indian Test side, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja snared four Bengal wickets and then scored an undefeated 67 to put Saurashtra in complete command in a Ranji Trophy group A league encounter in Rajkot on Sunday.
Bengal reached 138 for two at close on the second day of the Ranji Trophy final.
I was really surprised when he wasn't flown out even halfway through the series, two Test matches in.'
A round up of the fourth and final day's action of the Ranji Trophy matches on Sunday.
A round-up of the Ranji matches played across India on Sunday
Harshal Patel bowled a game-changing spell with the old ball as Haryana beat Rajasthan by 30 runs in a well-contested final to lift the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Rajkot on Saturday.
Laxmi Ratan Shukla absolves his team of wrongdoing in the ill-tempered Ranji Trophy match against Railways.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Saturday.
Sourashis Lahiri turned out to be the wrecker-in-chief with his five-wicket haul in the Ranji Trophy Elite Goup 'A' match.
The Ranji Trophy Super League semi-final between Bengal and Karnataka is set for an exciting finish.
Wriddhiman Saha, who had a fallout with Cricket Association of Bengal, is in talks with Tripura for a potential player-cum-mentor role
Sri Lanka's spin wizard and Test cricket's highest wicket-taker will play for Bengal in their Ranji Trophy campaign this season.
The severity of air pollution and dense Smog cover in the capital on Sunday led to the cancellation of the Ranji Trophy encounter between Bengal (rpt Bengal) and Gujarat at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on the second day itself. Both Bengal and Gujarat teams will be leaving Delhi on Monday for Kolkata and Ahmedabad respectively. The situation is not expected to improve for a few more days which effectively ruled out any chance of play. Match referee P Ranganathan, in consultation with BCCI and the respective state associations, decided that there is no point in waiting for two more days.
A summary of Ranji Trophy matches played on Thursday.
Dhapola's feat did not miss the attention of the BCCI secretary Jay Shah who termed it as one of the finest bowling performances of the tournament.
Wriddhiman Saha is confident that Bengal's unheralded bunch of bowlers have seen enough of Cheteshwar Pujara on television to plot his dismissal when they take on Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy final, starting in Rajkot on Monday.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Gujarat are still 335 runs behind Bengal's first innings score of 462.
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