Young Yash Dhull had a troublesome initiation into first-class captaincy as Delhi wilted below overcast situations to be bowled out for 191 earlier than Ishant Sharma-led tempo assault left Maharashtra reeling at 80 for 5 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match, in Pune Tuesday. While the solar did peep in again and again however the ball nipped round a good bit all through with pacers Manoj Ingale (5/43), Rajvardhan Hangargekar (3/58) and Ashay Palkar (2/67) bowling quick and full within the hall to trigger the harm.

Delhi, although, had began off effectively with senior opener Dhruv Shorey (41) and Anuj Rawat (24) including 54 runs for the primary wicket earlier than Maharashtra drew first blood.

Palkar bowled deliveries that moved within the air and straightened after pitching in as batters had been compelled to jab on the deliveries.

Ingale, actually, introduced the ball again into the left-handers as each Rawat and veteran Vaibhav Rawal had been bowled via the gate.

In case of Dhull, his former India U-19 teammate Hangargekar obtained one to rear from again of size as he tried to drive on the backfoot.

There was no footwork and he tried to solely use his palms and the ball flew to the slip cordon the place Kaushal Tambe did the remainder of the job.

Hangargekar additionally obtained the prized scalp of IPL specialist Nitish Rana, who edged one behind after wanting in poor health comfortable in bowler-friendly situations.

Himmat Singh (49) performed some audacious pull photographs and in addition hit a fantastic down the bottom six however was additionally caught napping within the hall of uncertainty.

When Maharashtra batted, Simarjeet Singh (2/16) shortly removed Pavan Shah (3) and Kaushal Tambe (0) earlier than Ishant Sharma (1/21)bowled a supply to Rahul Tripathi, that he had typically bowled throughout his heydays to the most effective on the earth.

It was quick and full angled on the off-stump and Tripathi pushed onerous at it to present Lalit Yadav a regulation catch within the third slip. Ishant although appeared to gained a little bit of weight having been out of aggressive cricket for a very long time.

Debutant Mayank Yadav additionally bowled at a brisk tempo and obtained a wicket whereas Dhull’s acrobatic fielding accounted for a run-out off the final ball of the day.

Meanwhile, Jharkhand spin twins Shahbaz Nadeem and Utkarsh Singh shared 5 wickets between them as Kerala did not convert their robust begin to be 276 for six on day considered one of their group C Ranji Trophy match in Ranchi.

Left-arm spinner Nadeem took the important thing wickets of Sanju Samson (72) and Rohan Kunnummal (50) en route to three/108, whereas off-spinner Singh ended the dogged resistance of Rohan Prem (79 off 201 balls) in his 2/43 as Jharkhand seized some late momentum going into the second day.

Promising opener Kunnummal, who just lately obtained an India ‘A’ call-up for the Bangladesh tour, continued his nice kind to slam one six and 5 boundaries in his 71-ball 50.

He and Rohan Prem placed on a robust opening stand of 90 after electing to bat.

But Nadeem gave the breakthrough, trapping Kunnummal LBW on the rating of fifty, as Kerala went on to lose three wickets for the addition of eight runs on both facet of lunch break.

Prem was at his resolute greatest however Singh cleaned him up simply after the tea break. Samson took management of the proceedings after Prem’s departure in a partnership with Akshay Chandran.

But Nadeem as soon as once more triggered the collapse dismissing Samson to interrupt their 33-run partnership. They went on to lose one other fast wicket with Jalaj Saxena being run-out for zero.

Chandran (39 batting) and Joseph (28 batting) had been within the center at stumps after a 51-run unbroken partnership.

On the opposite hand, Meghalaya bowlers, led by Rajesh Bishnoi (4/62), wrecked havoc however Taruwar Kohli produced a captain’s knock of 123, whereas Shreevats Goswami chipped in with a splendid 74 to push Mizoram to 252 on day considered one of their Ranji Trophy plate group match in Nadiad.

Opting to bowl, Megahalya new ball bowlers Abhishek Kumar (2/37) and Akash Choudhary (2/40) blew away the top-order to scale back Mizoram to eight for 3 inside 4 overs.

But thereafter, it was skipper Taruwar who took cost of the proceedings in an entertaining fourth wicket partnership with Goswami that yielded 136 runs.

Taruwar hit 15 fours in his 250-ball knock, whereas the left-handed Goswami smashed eight fours en path to a 122-ball 74 to drive Mizoram ahead.

Left-arm spinner Bishnoi then triggered the collapse after he had Goswami LBW. Taruwar fell in need of companions to see his facet fold for 86.1 overs.

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