Ranji Trophy: Uttar Pradesh in command against Tripura

Press Trust of India  |  Lucknow 

reduced to 33/4 after piling up 552/7 declared in their Elite Group C match here Sunday.

Garg hammered a listless attack all over the park as he stuck 23 boundaries and one six in his 371-ball knock, which helped the hosts pile up a mammoth first innings total.

skipper Nath (106) and Rinku Singh (149) also struck hundreds as the hosts dominated the second day of the four-day match.

Nath stuck 12 fours and two sixes, while Rinku Singh hit 17 boundaries and 1 six as bowlers were hit all round the park.

Upendra Yadav (25) and Saurabh Kumar (27) also chipped in with valuable scores as the hosts declared at 552/7 in 149 overs.

For the visitors, (4-164) was the pick of the bowlers.

But in their first innings, Tripura had a disastrous start with their openers B B Ghosh (7) and J R Banik (9) falling cheaply.

From 2-16, they were struggling at 4-33 as another two wickets fell in quick succession.

Tripura have a mountain to climb as they are still 519 runs and Uttar Pradesh will eye an innings victory.

Brief scores:

At Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh 552/7 Declared ( 206, Rinku Singh 149, Nath 106, 4-164) versus Tripura 33/4 (Pratyush Singh 10, Ankit Rajpoot 2-20).

At Guwahati : 175 and 119/4 (Rishav Das 51 not out, 4-42) versus 193 (Snehal Kauthankar 69, Sumiran Amonkar 35, Mukthar Hussain 3-67).

At Ranchi: 193 (68, Kumar Deobrat 48, A A Bamal 4-37) and 49/1 (Md Nazim 34, Sachidanand Pandey 1-5) versus Services 267 (79, Ravi Chauhan 67, A A Bamal 46, Anukul Roy 4-66).

At Jammu: 127 and 27/0 (Qamran Iqbal 17 not out) versus Odisha 323 (116 not out , Debasish Samantray 85, 4-52).

At Jaipur: 118 versus 443/5 (Robin Bist 121 not out, M K Lomror 106, Yuzvendra Chahal 3-91).

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First Published: Sun, December 23 2018. 19:15 IST