Vinay Kumar
new Delhi. Delhi scored 295 runs in the first innings from Nitish Rana and Lalit Yadav’s half-centuries on the third day of a Ranji Trophy Group H match on Saturday, February 5, and Chhattisgarh followed on. After which the ICC U-19 World Cup, 2022 champion Indian team has scored 83 runs without losing a wicket in the second innings from the unbeaten half-century of the champion captain Yash Dhull to the stumps (till the end of the day’s play). Chhattisgarh team had scored 482 runs for 9 wickets in their first innings batting. In this way, Delhi is now trailing by 104 runs.
Delhi’s team started playing 108 runs for 3 wickets on Saturday morning. Nitish converted his 20-run innings into a brilliant half-century and departed after scoring 71 runs. Lalit Yadav batted well and scored 60 runs. Ravi Kiran, Shubham Agarwal and Sumit Ruikar took 3 wickets each for Chhattisgarh team. After the Delhi team’s batting was reduced to 295 runs in the first innings, the Chhattisgarh team gave a follow-on.
Yash Dhull and Dhruv Shourie gave Delhi’s team a good start in the second innings. Has made his Yash Dhul half century and is playing on 56 runs. Whereas, Dhruv has scored 26 runs at the other end. Chhattisgarh team is on top of Group H with 7 points, while Tamil Nadu team and Jharkhand team have 6 points each. Delhi’s account is only 1 point.
Yash Dhul scored more than 300 runs
Yash Dhull is playing Ranji Trophy 2022 for the first time. He scored 113-113 runs in both the innings against Tamil Nadu in the first match of this latest tournament. After this, his bat looked cold against Jharkhand in the second match. In this match, only 5 and 19 runs came off his bat. He scored 29 runs in the first innings of the match against Chhattisgarh and was not out for 56 in the second innings till the end of the third day’s play on Saturday. Significantly, Yash Dhull has so far scored 335 runs in 6 innings played in Ranji Trophy 2022.
In the second match of the group, Jharkhand will need 110 runs to win against Tamil Nadu (Jharkhand vs Tamilnadu Ranji Trophy, 2022) on the last day. Tamil Nadu, playing 14 for 2 in the second innings of this match, were bundled out for 152 runs despite Baba Aparajith’s (52 runs) half-century, setting Jharkhand’s team a target of 212 runs to win.
Jharkhand’s team scored 102 for 4 at the end of the day’s play on Saturday. Saurabh Tiwari is playing 41 and Kumar Kushagra is scoring 25 runs. Tamil Nadu, who have taken the first innings lead, will have to drop 6 wickets to win. Whereas Jharkhand will have to score 110 runs to hoist the flag of victory. Apart from this, in the Ranji Trophy, 2022, Mumbai has made a good hold in the match against Odisha (Mumbai vs Odisha). In this match, Sarfaraz Khan scored 165 and Wasim Jaffer’s nephew Armaan Jaffer also scored a century.