Ranji Trophy Quarter-Finals: MD Nidheesh, Anshul Kamboj, Chintan Gaja Shine On Opening Day | Cricket Information

The opening day of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals noticed a dominant show of bowling throughout 4 matches on Saturday. Kerala pacer MD Nidheesh bagged a five-wicket haul to limit Jammu & Kashmir to 228/8 at stumps on the MCA Stadium in Pune. Kerala gained the toss and invited J&Okay to bat first. The batting aspect had a poor begin as Nidheesh eliminated the highest three within the opening session to go away the aspect reeling at 48/3. Nonetheless, Kanhaiya Wadhawan first stitched a short 19-run partnership with captain Paras Dogra, who was eliminated by Basil Thampi, earlier than including a 55-run stand with Sahil Lotra. Wadhawan departed after scoring 48 as Nidheesh obtained his fourth wicket of the day.

Lotra and Lone Nasir steered J&Okay’s innings additional and took them to over 150-run mark. The previous performed a gritty knock of 35 off 125 balls earlier than dropping his wicket to Aditya Sarwate. Within the last session of the day, Nidheesh accomplished his five-wicket haul with the scalp of Nasir, who made a significant contribution of 44 within the late center order.

Abid Mushtaq additionally made an important 19-run addition to the scoreboard earlier than he grew to become a sufferer of Thampi. J&Okay will look so as to add some runs to their in a single day whole as Yudhvir Singh and Auqib Nabi resume their innings from 17 and 5 runs, respectively. Within the different quarterfinal conflict between defending champions Mumbai and Haryana at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Shams Mulani’s counter-attacking 91 overshadowed pacer Anshul Kamboj’s 3-58.

Opting to bat first, Mumbai have been diminished to 94/6 as Kamboj and Sumit Kumar made probably the most of shifting new ball. Mumbai misplaced their in-form opener Ayush Mhatre on the primary ball of the match by Kamboj adopted by Sumit eradicating the opposite opener Akash Anand for 10 within the sixth over. Mumbai did not get time to get better from the early hiccups as Kamboj eliminated Siddhesh Lad (4) earlier than Sumit obtained maintain of Suryakumar Yadav (9) to trigger panic within the defending champions camp.

After a short partnership between captain Ajinkya Rahane and Shivam Dube, Ajit Chahal eliminated the latter to place Mumbai below stress. Rahane’s (31) cautious keep on the crease was dropped at an finish by Kamboj to bag his last wicket of the day, leaving Mumbai reeling at 94/6. Anuj Thakral caught and bowled Shardul Thakur (15) to take whole management of the match. Nonetheless, Mumbai’s lower-order batting depth got here to their rescue as Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian an enormous 165-run partnership for the eighth wicket.

Mulani scored 91 studded with 10 boundaries earlier than being eliminated by Jayant Yadav. Kotian remained unbeaten on 85 runs laced with 11 fours as Mumbai reached 278/8 in 78.3 overs on the stumps.

The quarterfinal match between Vidarbha and Tamil Nadu was highlighted by Karun Nair’s unbeaten century that was studded with 14 fours and a six mixed with Danish Malewar’s 75 embellished with 13 fours after the previous opted to bat first in Nagpur. The house aspect completed for 264/6 at stumps with Vijay Shankar bagging two scalps.

Within the different knockout match in Rajkot between Saurashtra and Gujarat, the latter dominated the opening day’s play.

Gujarat gained the toss and invited Saurashtra to bat first, a transfer that obtained the assist of bowlers as pacer Chintan Gaja returned with the figures of 4-48 to bundle out the opponents for 216 in 72.1 overs. Regardless of opener Chirag Jani’s 69, Saurashtra failed to achieve an enormous whole as Arpit Vasavada remained unbeaten on 39 however obtained no assist from the opposite finish.

In reply, Gujarat have been 21/0 on the stumps with opener Priyank Panchal and Aarya Desai unbeaten on 11 and 10 runs, respectively.

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