Shaw redeems himself with maiden double ton
VADODARA: Staying true to his word, Prithvi Shaw on Wednesday appeared in his ‘2.0’ avatar and blazed his way into national reckoning with a double hundred for Mumbai in a Ranji Trophy match against Baroda.
Continuing his purple patch after returning to competitive cricket from an eight-month doping ban, Shaw smashed 202 off 179 balls to put Mumbai on the road to victory in their Group B encounter at the Reliance Stadium. Shaw had recently assured that it will be ‘Prithvi Shaw 2.0 going forward’, and he lived up to that by hitting 19 fours and seven sixes.
Mumbai, who had made 431 in their first essay, got the crucial first innings lead after bundling out Baroda for 307, who could add only six runs to their overnight total. For Baroda, opener Kedar Devdhar remained unbeaten on 160.
Courtesy Shaw’s double ton and s ki pper Suryakumar Yadav’s quickfire unbeaten 102, Mumbai declared their second innings at 409/4, setting Baroda a mammoth target of 534.
Mumbai’s second innings was all about Shaw, who was playing his first first-class game after the suspension, and the pint-sized opener made optimum use of the opportunity. Shaw, who could be in contention for the third opener’s slot in Tests, took a listless Baroda attack to the cleaners. He will also be on the plane for India A team’s tour of New Zealand.
The right-hander had all shots in the book as he raced to his 100 in just 84 balls and then converted it into a memorable double ton. Shaw and Jay Bista (68) laid the foundation of the mammoth total by conjuring a 190-run stand for the first wicket.
The youngster from Virar was going all guns blazing while Bista, who hit seven boundaries, played second fiddle.
However, Baroda grabbed the wickets of Bista, one-down Shubham Ranjane (2) and Test specialist Ajinkya Rahane (9), who had a rare failure, in quick time.
At Thumba: Kerala 525/9 declared vs Delhi 142 (Nitish Rana 25, Navdeep Saini 25, Dhruv Shorey 19; Jalaj Saxena 6/63, Sijomon Joseph 2/7) & 142/1 (Anuj Rawat
87, Kunal Chandela 51; Sachin Baby 1/3).
At Jaipur: Rajasthan 257 & 157/8 (Mahipal Lomror 43, Ashok Menaria 26; Sanvir Singh 3/28, Gurkeerat Singh 2/9) vs Punjab 358 (Mandeep Singh 122, Anmol Malhotra 76, Gurkeerat Mann 68; Shubham Sharma 4/82).
At Vijaywada: Andhra 211 &
100/2 (CR Gnaneshwar 42*, Hanuma Vihari 27; Lalit Yadav 1/12, Rajneesh Gurbani 1/38) vs Vidarbha 441 (Ganesh Sathish 237, Mohit Kale 82; Cheepurapalli Stephen 5/110, Y Prithvi Raj 2/55). At Hyderabad: Hyderabad 233 & 239/6 (Tanmay Agarwal 96, Akshath Reddy 45, Bavanaka Sandeep 41; Roosh Kalaria 2/38, Axar Patel 2/44) vs Gujarat 313 (Manprit Juneja 94, Rujul Bhatt
65; Mehidy Hassan 4/78, CV Milind 3/66, Mohammed Siraj 3/73).
At Vadodara: Mumbai 431 & 409/4 declared (Prithvi Shaw 202, Suryakumr Yadav 102*; Soyeb Sopariya 2/35) vs Baroda 307 (Kedar Devdhar 160*, Vishnu Solanki 48; Shams Mulani 6/99) and 74/3 (Viraj Bhosale 41, Abhimanyusingh Rajput 16; Shams Mulani 2/28). Baroda need 460 runs to win.
At Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh 120 & 182 (Ankush Bains 74, Rishi Dhawan 53; Jaydev Unadkat 6/51) lost to Saurashtra 141 & 165/5 (Prerak Mankad 47*, Harvik Desai 46; Vaibhav Arora 3/57) by five wickets.
At Meerut: Railways 253 & 270 (Dinesh Mor 102, Amit Mishra 43*; Shivam Mavi 4/19, Yash Dayal 4/73) vs Uttar Pradesh 175 and 23/0 (Aryan Juyal 13*, Almas Shaukat 10*; Karn Sharma 0/2). UP need 326 runs to win.
At Dindigul: Karnataka 336 & 89/5 (Devdutt Padikkal 29*) vs Tamil Nadu 307 all out (Dinesh Karthik 113, Abhinav Mukund 47; Krishnappa Gowtham 6/110).