Ranji Trophy Day 3 Roundup: Gambhir and Tiwary make the headlines, Vidarbha's debutant Sarwate takes 6 against Assam
On a day that saw Manoj Tiwary and Gautam Gambhir get into a tiff which caught the headlines, Andhra bowled out Uttar Pradesh for 309 in the second innings and require 157 with two days remaining to win the fixture.
During the match between Delhi and Bengal, Tiwary who was batting got into a verbal duel with Gambhir and the latter charged him with raised fist and also pushed the umpire aside who tried to intervene.
Mumbai, on the other hand, took the lead off 102 runs against Baroda who have just one wicket in hand. Bengal riding on a century scored by Chatterjee finished the day at 47/3 after bowling out Delhi for 249 runs.
Goa continued their good performance against Himachal Pradesh and finished the day at 182/3 with the lead of 130 runs. Haryana who bowled out Karnataka for a paltry 221, scored 262 in the second innings before declaring. Karnataka now require 364 runs to win the tie.
Brief Scores:
Group A
Bengal 357 (Chatterjee 116, Saha 72, Tiwary 55, Sangwan 4-48) and 47 for 3 lead Delhi (toss) 249 (Milind 77, P Ojha 4-77, Dinda 3-59) by 155 runs in Delhi
Karnataka 221 (Rahul 63, R Dagar 3-10) and 9 for 0 (target 373) v Haryana 331 (Sehwag 136, Jayant Yadav 100, Sharath 5-48) and 262 for 9 dec (Saini 52, Sehwag 40, Gopal 4-53) in Mysore
Rajasthan 318 (Menaria 84, Bhatia 59, Fallah 3-77, Mundhe 3-94) and 115 for 3 lead Maharashtra (toss) 409 (Tripathi 119, Khurana 77, Kukna 4-87, Chahar 3-94) by 24 runs in Jaipur
Vidarbha 154 (Satish 67, Purkayastha 4-50) and 88 for 0 (target 213) v Assam (toss) 206 (Syed Mohammed 69*, Verma 57, Wakhare 4-47, Umesh 4-49) and 160 (Sarwate 6-64, Wakhare 4-37) in Nagpur
Group B
Madhya Pradesh (toss) 370 (Shrivastava 131, Saxena 70, Rameez 66, Ladda 5-110) and 81 for 3 (Ladda 3-20) leadPunjab 358 (Jiwanjot 64, U Kaul 139, Ankit 5-122, Saxena 3-111) by 12 runs in Patiala
Andhra (toss) 297 (Prasanth Kumar 67, Bharat 62, Praveen 4-86) and 26 for 1 (target 183) v Uttar Pradesh 170 (Praveen 47, Siva Kumar 3-29, Stephen 3-41) and 309 (Dwivedi 72, Saif 56, Praven 53, Vijaykumar 4-68) in Ongole
Baroda 345 for 9 (Devdhar 95, Waghmode 57, Kulkarni 5-69) trail Mumbai (toss) 447 (Iyer 173, Nair 81, Herwadkar 67, Suryakumar 68, Argal 4-67) by 102 runs in Vadodara
Group C
Goa 324 (Kamat 163, Kauthankar 74, Rishi Dhawan 6-108) and 182 for 3 (Asnodkar 72*, Desai 63*) lead Himachal Pradesh (toss) 376 (Dogra 167, Parameswaran 5-82) by 130 runs in Dharamsala
Services 281 for 7 (Gupta 68, Monish 3-90) trail Kerala (toss) 322 (Prem 101, Baby 51, Jagadeesh 59, Samson 28, Paliwal 3-33) by 40 runs in Delhi
Jammu & Kashmir (toss) 428 (Rasool 130, Manhas 96, Bandeep 63) and 163 for 3 (Bandeep 51*) lead Tripura 204 (Parvinder 60, Ram Dayal 4-51) by 367 runs in Agartala