Delhi put up strong reply after Harpreet’s hundred

DAY 2 SCORES

Harpreet Singh struck a gritty hundred to lead Madhya Pradesh’s fightback before Delhi came up with a strong reply to leave the Ranji Trophy quarter-final nicely poised at stumps on day two.

Madhya Pradesh , resuming the day at 223/six, did extremely well to reach 338 with Harpreet scoring an unbeaten 107 off 200 balls. The tail too gave him good support, especially Puneet Datey (35).

Frustrated with the late resistance, Delhi batsmen came out to bat a determined lot and finished the day at 180/2.

Rookie Kunal Chandela, a product of university cricket, gave a good account of himself with an unbeaten 73, his second half-century plus score in only his second first-class game.

Chandela and Dhruv Shorey In Vijaywada: MP 338 (Harpreet Singh 107*; Manan Sharma 4/46). Delhi 180/2 (Kunal Chandela 73*, Dhruv Shorey 78).

In Nagpur: Mumbai 173 v Karnataka 395/6 (M Agarwal 78, K Abbas 50, S Gopal 80*, CM Gautam 79, R Vinay Kumar 31*; S Dube 5/79).

In Jaipur: Bengal 354 (Abhimanyu Easwaran 129, Anushtup Majumdar 94, Aamir Gani 49, B Amit 36, Ishwar Chaudhary 5/87). Gujarat 180/6 (Bharghav Merai 67, Parthiv Patel 47, B Amit 3/46). In Surat: Vidarbha 246 (Wadkar 53, Akshay 5/66). Kerala 32/2.

(78) shared a 145-run stand for the second wicket after senior batsman Gautam Gambhir fell in the first over of the innings.

Chandela collected five fours and two sixes in his unbeaten 154-ball effort while Shorey smashed 10 boundaries before falling to Ankit Sharma in the 43rd over. Nitish Rana (17) was batting alongside Chandela at close of play.

VIJAYWADA:

KARNATAKA ON TOP

Nagpur Karnataka took control of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Mumbai by taking a commanding 222-run lead over the 41-time champions on the second day at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha.

Half centuries by opener Mayank Agarwal, M Kaunain Abbas, C M Gautam and Shreyas Gopal helped Karnataka to the dominating position as they closed out the day at 395/6 in 122 overs with Shreyas Gopal unbeaten on 80 off 151 balls along with skipper R Vinay Kumar (31 not out). Karnataka had bundled out Mumbai for a partly 173 on Thursday and finished the opening day at 115/1.