Sarfaraz Khan’s brother Musheer Khan scored a double century for Mumbai in Ranji Trophy. cricket news

Mumbai were ahead by 257 runs in the first innings thanks to Musheer Khan’s unbeaten 203 runs, in reply to which Baroda were 127/2 at the end of the second day of the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals on Saturday. Bhargav Bhatt worked hard to take seven wickets, but Musheer scored a brilliant unbeaten double century, helping Mumbai post 383 runs in the first innings at the BKC Ground.

After this, the visiting team’s opening batsman and India Under-19 World Cup player Priyanshu Molia (1) was clean bowled by Shardul Thakur in their first innings, after which Shams Mulani soon dismissed Jyotsnil Singh for 32 runs. .

Baroda’s score was 65/2 in the 23rd over, when the duo of Shashwat Rawat and captain Vishnu Solanki took their team to the end of the game without any further loss.

Rawat was playing on 69 runs in 88 balls with the help of nine fours, while Solanki was playing on 23 not out with the help of two fours in 38 balls and scoring 62 not out for the third wicket.

However, the headlines of the day were once again grabbed by Musheer, who converted his maiden first-class century into a big score and laid the foundation for a strong first innings total for Mumbai.

Musheer reached 203 not out with 18 fours off 357 balls as his contribution was crucial for the home team to move closer to 400 runs from 99/4 at one point on the first day.

The 18-year-old right-handed batsman stitched a crucial 181-run partnership for the eighth wicket with wicketkeeper-batsman Hardik Tamore (57), who himself scored a brilliant half-century under pressure.

Tamore faced 248 balls and hit only three fours to stifle the Baroda attack and worked with Musheer to take Mumbai from 142/5 to 323 when the pair parted ways.

The hosts were all out for 383 in 140.4 overs, with Bhatt taking three more wickets on the first day and taking 7/112 in 42.4 overs.

Ninad Rathwa also shared the heavy bowling workload, returning 38-4-86-3 for the remaining wickets.

Brief Scores: Mumbai 383 in 140.4 overs (Prithvi Shaw 33, Musheer Khan 203*, Hardik Tamore 57; Bhargav Bhatt 7/112, Ninad Rathwa 3/86) Baroda 127/2 in 35 overs (Jyotsnil Singh 32, Shashwat Rawat 69) ).*; Shardul Thakur 1/25 by 257 runs.

Sai Kishore, Indrajith, Kumar hand Tamil Nadu lead vs Saurashtra

Captain R Sai Kishore led by Baba Inderjit and Bupathi Kumar scored useful half-centuries to give Tamil Nadu the lead in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Saurashtra in Coimbatore on Saturday. Thanks to his efforts, Tamil Nadu reached 300 for six at stumps on the second day of the match, giving them a lead of 117 runs with four wickets remaining in the first innings.

The day started with 23 runs for one wicket, night-watchman Sai Kishore (60) and opener Narayan Jagadeesan (37) managed to make a partnership of 54 runs for the second wicket, but Parth Bhutt kept the team’s score in check. He was given out LBW. 63.

The hosts were in trouble at 85 for three when Pradosh Ranjan Paul (13) fell to Parth Bhutt, but Sai Kishore and Inderjeet (80) took control of the situation by adding 49 runs for the fourth wicket.

Sai Kishore, who took five wickets in Saurashtra’s first innings, completed his third first-class half-century before being dismissed by Jaydev Unadkat.

Bupati Kumar (65) along with Inderjeet kept his team under control by making a brilliant partnership of 119 runs for the fifth wicket.

Inderjit was looking good for his 17th first-class century, but Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, the season’s leading wicket-taker for the visitors, dismissed the experienced TN batsman, leaving the team’s score at 253 for five.

After adding 14 runs, Bupathi was clean bowled by Yuvraj Singh Dodiya.

Vijay Shankar (14 batting) and Mohammed Ali (17 batting) finished the day as Tamil Nadu finished the day with a huge lead.

For Saurashtra, it has been a collective effort from their bowling unit, with all five bowlers successful in taking wickets.

Brief scores: Saurashtra 183 trail Tamil Nadu 300-6 (Baba Inderjit 80; Parth Bhutt 2/76) by 117 runs.

Madhya Pradesh faces Andhra in Ranji Trophy quarter-finals

Madhya Pradesh made a spectacular comeback on the back of a collective bowling performance and increased their overall lead to 83 runs at stumps on the second day of the Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Andhra in Indore on Saturday. 2021-22 winners MP started the day at 234 for 9 and lost their last wicket without adding any runs to their total. They had lost a brilliant start of their first innings when openers Yash Dubey (64) and Himanshu Mantri (49) had added 123 runs for the first wicket.

For Andhra, KV Shashikant took 4 for 37, while Nitish Kumar Reddy returned with figures of 3/50. Shoaib Mohammad Khan and Girinath Reddy also took one wicket each as Andhra had a platform ready to take advantage of the game.

But the Madhya Pradesh bowlers performed brilliantly and restricted Andhra to just 172 runs in the first innings and gave their team a lead of 62 runs.

None of the Andhra batsmen could make a mark against the strong bowling line-up of Madhya Pradesh. Andhra captain and leading run-scorer of the current Ranji season Ricky Bhui was dismissed by Kulwant Khejroliya for 32 runs (53 balls, 5×4, 1×6).

However, most of the damage was done by Madhya Pradesh and India bowler Avesh Khan, who dismissed Andhra opener DB Prashant Kumar for four balls and No. 3 Ashwin Hebbar for just one run.

Anubhav Agarwal dismissed K Revanth Reddy LBW for 22 runs and India batsman Hanuma Vihari was dismissed in front of the wicket for 14 runs.

At the end of the innings, Agarwal dismissed the dangerous Shoaib Mohammad Khan for 22 runs and returned with impressive figures of 18-6-33-3.

Left-arm spinner Kumar Karthikeya also took 3 wickets for 41 runs in 19 overs, with Karan Shinde (38), Nitish (7) and Shashikant (12) being the top scorers of the innings.

The visiting team was all out for 172 runs in 68.3 overs, after which Madhya Pradesh took a total lead of 83 runs by scoring 21 runs without any loss at stumps on the second day.

Dubey was batting on six runs, while wicketkeeper-batsman Mantri made MP’s day on Saturday by scoring unbeaten 50 runs with the help of three fours.

Brief Scores: Madhya Pradesh 234 in 81.1 overs (Yash Dubey 64, Himanshu Mantri 49, Saransh Jain 41 not out; Nithish Kumar Reddy 3/50, KV Sasikanth 4/37) and 21/0 in 7 overs (Himanshu Mantri 15 not out) ) lead Andhra 172 in 68.3 overs (Karan Shinde 38; Anubhav Agarwal 3/38, Kumar Kartikeya 3/41) by 83 runs.