Delhi and Mumbai score big wins
NEW DELHI: Left-handed Nitish Rana smashed an unbeaten 91 off 87 balls as Delhi notched up their second successive win in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Hyderabad by six wickets here Friday.
Hyderabad were dismissed for 205 in 47.4 overs with leftarm spinner Manan Sharma taking four for 42.
Due to a brief spell of showers, Delhi had a revised target of 176 in 39 overs but they surpassed it in only 30.4 overs.
Rana, who was unwell during the Saurashtra game, was back with a bang, hitting 12 boundaries and two huge sixes in the group B match.
Skipper Gautam Gambhir was once again solid at the top of the order, scoring 41 off 47 balls with six boundaries.
Brief Scores:
Hyderabad: 205 all out in 47.4 overs (B Sandeep 51, Manan Sharma 4/42). Delhi: (Revised 176 in 39 overs) (Nitish Rana 91 no off 87 balls, Gautam Gambhir 41 off 47 balls).
RAHANE, IYER SIZZLE
BENGALURU: Skipper Ajinkya Rahane and Shreyas Iyer struck tons as Mumbai routed Karnataka by 88 runs in their Elite Group A match. Asked to bat, Mumbai posted a mammoth 362/5 in their 50 overs before bundling out Karnataka for 274.
Rahane, dropped from the India squad in white ball cricket, led from the front with the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Rahane continued from where he had left in the last game. Rahane hammered a listless Karnataka attack in his 150ball innings, containing 13 fours and three sixes. He, along with young opener Prithvi Shaw (60), stitched a 106-run stand for the first wicket to lay the foundation of a big total.
Brief Scores: Mumbai 362/5 in 50 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 148, Shreyas Iyer 110) beat Karnataka 274 all out in 45 overs (Mayank Agarwal 66; Shams Mulani 4/71)
Goa 317/5 in 50 overs (Sumiran Amonkar 82, Snehal Kauthankar 67) beat Railways 275 all out in 47.2 overs (Amit Paunikar 84, Mrunal Devdhar 68; Krishna Das 4/50)
Punjab 278/7 in 50 overs (Gurkeerat Mann 85*) beat Vidarbha 137 all out in 40.5 overs (Ganesh Satish 60) Uttarakhand 291/7 in 50 overs (Karanveer Kaushal 101, Vaibhav Bhatt 73) beat Puducherry 226 in 45.2 overs (Abhishek Nayar 94; Sunny Rana 4/52)
Meghalaya 246/6 in 50 overs (Raj Biswa 71) lost to Nagaland 247/3 in 47.3 overs (Pawan KB 113 not out) Arunachal Pradesh 306/4 in 50 overs (Techi Doria 122, Samarth Seth 89) beat Sikkim 257/7 in 50 overs (Nilesh Lamichaney 123)
Assam 81 in 30.2 overs (Amit Mishra 6/13) lost to Haryana 83 for 2 in 11.2 overs
J&K 79 in 30 overs (Harmeet Singh 5/10) lost to Tripura 81/6 in 30.5 overs Tamil Nadu 315/4 in 50 overs (N Jagadeesan 133) beat Services 232 in 46 overs (Nakul Verma 60; CV Varun 5/38).