Part time off-spinners Lalit Yadav and Nitish Rana shared six wickets amongst themselves as Delhi thrashed minnows Sikkim by 10 wickets in Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Saturday to keep their slim quarter-final hopes alive.
Having lost back-to-back games, Delhi were on the money at the CC&FC ground here as Sikkim were bundled out for 76 in 34.4 overs.
Rana (3/12 in 6 overs), Yadav (3/12 in 8 overs) along with specialist off-break bowler Shivank Vasisht (1/16 in 6 overs) shared bulk of the spoils after Delhi elected to field on a
track which is known for being tacky.
Needing to up the run-rate, the normally stodgy Dhruv Shorey (43 not out, 28 balls) and all-rounder Kunwar Bidhuri (33 not out of 28 balls) knocked off the runs in just 9.2 overs notch up the team's third win in five games. While Shorey's innings had eight fours, Bidhuri hit three fours and two sixes.
With 12 points and a net run-rate of +0.622, Delhi are now placed fourth in the group behind Assam (16 points, NRR +1.776), Karnataka (16 points, NRR +1.674) and Jharkhand (16, NRR +1.547), all of whom have four wins in their kitty.
In the other matches of the group, Jharkhand crushed Meghalaya by 192 runs while Rajasthan beat Vidarbha by six wickets. The fourth match in this group had Assam upsetting the mighty Karnataka by six wickets, riding on Swarupam Purkayastha's century.
Unadkat shines
New Delhi: Left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat produced
an inspired show with the
ball to hand Saurashtra an eight-wicket win over Himachal Pradesh and help consolidate their position at the top of Group A.
Unadkat (5/23) returned with a five-wicket haul and along with Chetan Sakariya (2/30) wreaked havoc with the new ball to bundle out Himachal for a paltry 130 in 36.4 overs after electing to bowl.
Saurashtra chased down the total with consummate ease, reaching 134 for two in 27.2 overs.
In the other Group A matches, Hyderabad defeated Manipur by seven wickets, while Gujarat also beat Tripura by seven wickets, and Chandigarh prevailed over Uttar Pradesh by six wickets in a high-scoring game.
Maha, Mumbai win
Ranchi: Rahul Tripathi's superb knock of 111 was the cornerstone of Maharashtra's 61-run win over Services in a Group E match.
Services won the toss and sent the opposition into bat and saw Tripathi come up with a ton. The right-handed batter Tripathi and his 140-run stand for the third wicket with captain Ankit Bawane (73) powered the Maharashtra innings.
Though they appeared to lose steam towards the end
and lost a few wickets, Maharashtra still ended up with a huge score of 304 for 8 in 50 overs.
Shubham Rohilla (114, 102 balls, 13 fours, 3 sixes) came
up with a power-packed effort for Services but it was not enough as the other batters failed to make substantial
contributions.
In another match, Mumbai romped to a seven-wicket win over Mizoram, reaching the target of 192 in 22.3 overs after brisk half-centuries by Prithvi Shaw 54 (39 balls, 8X4, 2X6), Yashasvi Jaiswal 63 (45 balls, 10X4, 1X6) and Armaan Jaffer 55 (40 balls, 5X4, 3X6).
4 100s in a row
Bengaluru: N Jagadeesan continued his superb run, hammering a fourth hundred on the trot, as Tamil Nadu recorded a massive 151-run win over Haryana in a Group C match.
The hundred for Jagadeesan makes him the fourth batter after Kumar Sangakkara, Alviro Petersen and Devdutt Padikkal to record centuries in four consecutive List A innings. His previous centuries came against Andhra, Chhattisgarh and Goa.
In another match in the group, Andhra registered a 76-run win over Kerala. It was Kerala's first defeat.
