Delhi failed to make it to the quarter-final stage of the Ranji Trophy after going down by five runs in a thrilling match against Saurashtra in Vadodara on Saturday. Needing a win to progress, Delhi were set a target of 276 and decided to go for the win. Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan got them off to a good start but a middle-order collapse ensued from which they never recovered. Saurashtra’s Shaurya Sanandia was the wrecker-in-chief, finishing with 5/93.

Vidarbha beat Rajasthan

Vidarbha completed a six-wicket win over Rajasthan to end a low-scoring match in Greater Noida. The target set was 188 and Vidarbha were hardly troubled on their way to victory with Ganesh Satish and SK Wath both scoring at almost run-a-ball to take their team home.

Tamil Nadu take the honours in a high-scoring draw

Tamil Nadu took the first innings points in a high-scoring draw against Gujarat in Belgavi. Resuming at 397/4, Tamil Nadu finished the day at 580/6 declared with Kaushik Gandhi hitting a double century, Vijay Shankar a century and captain Abhinav Mukund scoring 99. Thanks to the draw, Tamil Nadu also qualified for the quarter-finals. Gujarat had qualified before the match.

Hyderabad hold on against Andhra to go through

Hyderabad held on to a draw against Andhra in Lucknow and in the process, qualified for the quarters, despite not getting the first innings lead. In another low-scoring match, Hyderabad were never in a chase of 219 in the last session, but were in danger of being bundled out after being 36/5 at one stage. But, captain Subramaniam Badrinath and Kolla Sumanth took them to safety and a place in the next round.

Brief scores:

Group A:

Qualified: Mumbai, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu

  • Gujarat 307 (Panchal 113, Axar Patel 44; T Natarajan 3-86) drew with Tamil Nadu 580/6 declared (Kaushik Gandhi 202, Vijay Shankar 102; Rush Kalaria 2-47)
  • Punjab 468 drew with Mumbai 185 (Shardul Thakur 70; Manpreet Gony 4/39) & 227/4 (Shreyas Iyer 123; Siddarth Kaul 1/53)
  • Bengal 475/9 declared (Shreevats Goswami 225 not out, Abhimanyu Easwaran 80; Puneet Datey 4/105) & 261/2 (Abhishek Raman 91 not out, Prasenjit Das 72; Puneet Datey 1/26) drew with Madhya Pradesh 370 (Ankit Sharma 94, Rajat Patidar 86; Sayan Ghosh 5/94)
  • Uttar Pradesh 481 & 417/3 (Shivam Chaudhary 124, Akshdeep Nath 107; Rishi Arothe 2/77) drew with Baroda 458 (Kedar Devdhar,157, Swapnil Singh 95; Imtiaz Ahmed 4/126) 

Group B:

Qualified: Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha

  • Saurashtra 92 & 420 (KM Parmar 149, Aarpit Vasavada 89; Navdeep Saini 3/122) beat Delhi 237 & 271 (Milind Kumar 55, Manan Sharma 46; Shaurya Sanandia 5/93, Kushang Patel 4/83) by five runs
  • Maharashtra 163 & 218 (Kedar Jadhav 85; David Matias 3/37) lost to Karnataka 345 (Pavan Deshpande 70, R Samarth 64; Anupam Sanklecha 3/78) & 39/0 by 10 wickets
  • Vidarbha 116 (Siddesh Wath 50, Sanjay Ramaswamy 25; Tanveer-ul-Haq 6/21, Pankaj Singh 3/52) & 191/4 (Siddhesh Wath 64, Ganesh Satish 63; Pankaj Singh 2/96) beat Rajasthan 140 & 163 (Amitkumar Gautam 51, Siddharth Dobal 34; Lalit Yadav 6/60, Shrikant Wagh 2-32) by six wickets

Group C:

Qualified: Haryana, Hyderabad

  • Haryana 231 & 261/9 declared (Nitin Saini 104; Bunti Roy 4/42) beat Tripura 178 & 195 (Gurinder Singh 62, Manisankar Murasingh 60; Sanjay Pahal 3/47) by 119 runs
  • Andhra 190 & 171/6 declared (Hanuma Vihari 57; Mohammed Siraj 4/52) drew with Hyderabad 143 & 56/5
  • Himachal Pradesh 528 (Prashant Chopra 194, Sumeet Verma 160; Rituraj Singh 3/89) and 139/3 (Paras Dogra 55 not out) beat Goa 380 & 286 (Darshan Misal 119, Sumiran Amonkar 54; Gurvinder Singh 4/82) by seven wickets
  • Chhattisgarh 370 & 264/3 declared (Amandeep Khare 117 not out, Manoj Singh 85; Parvez Rasool 3/56) drew with Jammu & Kashmir 242 (Parvez Rasool 92; Sumit Ruikar 5/59) & 243/7 (Shubham Khajuria 72, Parvez Rasool 66; Ajay Mandal 3/60, Sumit Ruikar 3/90)
  • Services 322 (Anshul Gupta 105, Rahul Singh 71; Athif Bin Ashraf 4/60) drew with Kerala 518/5 declared (Sachin Baby 250 not out, Akshay Chandran 102 not out; Irfan Khan 3/118)