After the 10-team Indian Premier League 2022 concluded on May 29, the action shifted back to the senior men’s domestic season. The second half of the split Ranji Trophy season, that was affected to due to Covid-19, began on Monday with all the quarter-finals taking place in Bengaluru.
Here’s a round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals:
Karnataka vs Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh beat a favoured Karnataka by five wickets to go through to the semi-finals, thanks to some outstanding bowling and a strong showing from the batters. Set a target of 213 runs, UP were reeling at 96/4 after some aggressive bowling from Karnataka, and both Priyam Garg (52) and Rinku Singh (4) were dismissed in quick succession. However, skipper Karan Sharma (93) took it upon himself to restore order, with the help of Prince Yadav (33).
Uttar Pradesh march into the #RanjiTrophy semifinals! 👏 👏
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) June 8, 2022
Captain Karan Sharma leads the charge with the bat in the chase as Uttar Pradesh beat Karnataka by 5⃣ wickets in #QF3. 👍 👍 #KARvUP | @Paytm
Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/UDFkFRkMjB pic.twitter.com/AtKOP4paDi
You can see why Karan Sharma is leading UP. Just looks very assured and confident and today's innings under the circumstances was as good as they come.
— Soorya Sesha (@sooryasesha7) June 8, 2022
Well deserved by UP. Karnataka is in transition but that was a poor collapse yesterday. Shouldn't have lost this #RanjiTrophy
Karan Sharma is playing - forgive the cliche - a captain's knock. Batting on 77 and has steered UP to within 34 runs of victory vs Karnataka. And he just deposited Gowtham over long-on and almost into the Mumbai-Uttarakhand QF. #RanjiTrophy
— Saurabh Somani (@saurabh_42) June 8, 2022
Picturesque setting for a great game. pic.twitter.com/StZcnXjXzw
Mumbai vs Uttarakhand
Mumbai continued their dominance as they brought up a lead of 794 runs against Uttarakhand, with Yashaswi Jaiswal scoring his first first-class century off 146 balls. Earlier, skipper Prithvi Shaw (72) and Aditya Tare’s (57) fifties kept Mumbai ticking over when they elected to bat again after knocking Uttarakhand out for 114 to take a 533-run first-innings lead. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani starred with the ball for Mumbai with 5/39.
A happy Mumbai bunch caps off yet another perfect day with a team meeting on the field. At 261/3, it has a lead of 794 runs #RanjiTrophy @sportstarweb pic.twitter.com/pE2Fc62HuD
— Amol Karhadkar (@karhacter) June 8, 2022
Punjab vs Madhya Pradesh
Kumar Kartikeya starred for Madhya Pradesh as he picked 4/31 and dismissed Shubman Gill (19) and Mandeep Singh (17) early on. Anmolpreet Singh remained the highest scorer for Punjab with 31 off 107. At the end of Day 3, Punjab were 120/5 in their second innings and trailed by 58 runs.
Fourth wicket for Kumar Kartikeya as Gurkeerat Singh nicks one to 'keeper Himanshu Mantri. The batter isn't pleased with the decision as he walks back. Punjab 96/4 in 35.1 overs - trails by 82 runs. @sportstarweb #RanjiTrophy #PUNvMP pic.twitter.com/mhw5So8T1X
— Lalith Kalidas (@lal__kal) June 8, 2022
Bengal vs Jharkhand
After tiring Jharkhand by piling on a record 773 runs, Bengal reduced Jharkhand to 139/5 as Sayan Mondal picked up 3/32. He was ably supported by spinner Shahbaz Ahmed (2/5). While Nazim Siddiqui was the top-scorer for Jharkhand with 53 off 62, skipper Saurabh Tiwary made a handy 33 off 62. However, Bengal’s mighty total saw Jharkhand trailing by 634 runs at stumps on Day 3.
Something great happened in #RanjiTrophy today. #Bengal became the first team to feature NINE 50s on the same scorecard. Here we are discussing 250 years of First-class cricket. Extra-ordinary performance by our beloved team against Jharkhand. Wow!! pic.twitter.com/PdQZMDLjz2
— Barsha Paira (Jhargram) (@barsha_paira) June 8, 2022
Read full scores of all the quarterfinals here.
