Hyderabad batsmen make Delhi bowlers toil on Day 1

RANJI TROPHY: ROUND 3, DAY 1

After failing to gain full points against Himachal Pradesh in the previous round, Delhi again had backs to the wall with hosts Hyderabad reaching 232 for three at stumps on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Tuesday.

Delhi bowlers had failed to bowl out Himachal in over 100 overs in the last game and the weak bowling again failed to look threatening. Hyderabad’s lefthanded opener Tanmay Agarwal was unbeaten on 112. He shared a 135-run partnership with No. 4 Himalay Agarwal who scored 66.

Delhi tried as many as seven bowlers and only left-arm spinner Vikas Mishra, two wickets for 61, and seamer Gaurav Kumar, one for 30, could find success. Otherwise, it was a hard grind for the last year’s finalists. Delhi are without experienced batsman Gautam Gambhir, who is suffering shoulder injury.

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JAFFER’S 54TH CENTURY

While the last year’s finalists Delhi struggled, there were no such problems for defending champions Vidarbha with veteran Wasim Jaffer (131 not out) and Faiz Fazal (124 not out) taking team to 268 for one at the end of first day’s play against Baroda. This is Jaffer’s 54th firstclass and 38th Ranji century.

SHAMI STRIKES EARLY

Australia-bound Mohammed Shami picked one for 19 in five overs but his side Bengal faced an uphill task against Ker- 51.1 overs (R Mali 28, R Mohanty 5/31) vs Odisha 86/3 (A Sarangi 61*, M Hussain 3/27)

At Ranchi: Rajasthan 100 all out in 42.2 overs (V Aaron 5/22, A Yadav 3/35) vs Jharkhand 92/5 in 32.4 overs (I Jaggi 44*, T Haq 4/29) At Rohtak: Haryana 263/9 in 84 overs (H Rana 86, N Saini 64, K Das 5/69) vs Goa

At Srinagar: Tripura 124 all out in 42 overs (N Kadam 34, P Rasool 5/30, I Pathan 2/17) vs J&K 154/1 in 40 overs (S Khajuria 52, I Pathan 47*)

At Delhi: Services 256/8 in 90 overs (D Lohchab 71*, V Hathwala 36, S Mavi 3/44) vs Uttar Pradesh

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