Railways vs delhi: Star batsman Virat Kohli’s return to the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament after 13 years, in a special match to return to the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament, Upendra Yadav of Railways played an attractive innings of 95 runs and did not allow Delhi to take much advantage of taking wickets in the beginning here on Thursday. The railway team scored 241 runs in their first innings after being invited to bat first. Delhi had scored 41 runs for one wicket in their first innings by the end of the first day’s play.
Navdeep Saini, Siddhant Sharma and Mani Grewal’s fast bowling trio took advantage of the morning circumstances and scored 66 for five wickets in the first session. After this, Upendra and veteran spinner Karn Sharma (50) shared a 104 -run partnership for the sixth wicket and brought the railway to a respectable score. More than 12000 spectators reached the stadium due to Kohli’s presence. Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first and due to this Kohli did not get a chance to bat on the first day. Upendra, however, introduced his talent in front of the audience.
When Upendra was moving towards completing his third century in the session, he played a shot in the air off the ball of left -handed spinner Sumit Mathur and caught the long off. He hit 10 fours and a six in his innings. For Delhi, Saini and Grewal did nine overs by left -handed fast bowler Siddhant, 18 and 17 over. Saini and Siddhant took three wickets while Grewal took two wickets.
However, the attraction of the day was Kohli and he stayed on the field during the railway innings and encouraged the players of his team as well as the players of his team. He stood in the slip most of the time. Kohli will go for batting on Friday and then more spectators are likely to reach the stadium. 21 wickets fell on the first day of the match being played between Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu in Jamshedpur. Jharkhand’s team was batting first and was dismissed for 185 runs. Sharandeep Singh scored the highest 52 runs on his behalf.
Jharkhand, however, with the help of Utkarsh Singh’s best bowling, Tamil Nadu was dismissed for 106 runs in 27.5 overs to lead a 79 -run lead. Utkarsh took six wickets for 30 runs. By the end of the day’s play, Jharkhand has scored five runs for one wicket in their second innings and it is now 84 runs ahead from Tamil Nadu.
In Nagpur, veteran batsman Cheteshwar Pujara returned to the form by scoring an unbeaten 95. Apart from him, Harvick Desai scored 130 runs, scoring 361 runs for three wickets against Assam on the first day. In Raipur, Chandigarh scored 283 runs with Gurinder Singh’s 113 runs and Amrit Lubana’s 92 runs. From Chhattisgarh, Ravi Kiran took five wickets for 68 runs. By the end of the first day’s play, Chhattisgarh scored 13 runs in its first innings without any loss.
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