Ranji Trophy 2022, Quarterfinals, Day 1: The knockout matches of the Ranji Trophy will be played in Bengaluru from Monday.Ranji Trophy 2022, quarterfinals, Day 1 Live updates: It has been a season of two halves for India’s premier domestic first-class tournament. The knockout matches of the Ranji Trophy will be played in Bengaluru from Monday, a couple of months after the league matches finished. The Ranji Trophy has returned after a one-season break prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The rejigged format offered only three games for every team, with only the table-toppers progressing to the knock-outs. The number of games in comparison to 2019-20 (the previous Ranji edition) was reduced from 169 games to 65.
Bengal will face Jharkhand, Mumbai will take on Uttarakhand, Karnataka to lock horns with Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab will be up against Madhya Pradesh.
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Ranji Trophy: Knockouts after shootouts
Mumbai have lost both their openers Prithvi Shaw (21) and Yashashvi Jaiswal (35) after a brisk start against Uttarakhand. Deepak Dhapola removed both the destructive batters. Mumbai: 65/2 in 16 overs.
Riding on a fine half-century from Abhimanyu Easwaran (51*), Bengal have reached the 100-run mark without losing any wicket. However, opener Abhishek Raman is retired hurt in 41. Sudip Gharami (7*) is at the crease with the skipper. Bengal: 101/0 in 29 overs.
Uttar Pradesh have won the toss and they have elected to field first against Karnataka.
Punjab have won the toss and they have opted to bat first against Madhya Pradesh.
Bengal openers Abhishek Raman (27*) and captain Abhimanyu Easwaran (36*) are involved in an unbeaten 64 runs for the opening wicket. After a cautious first hour, they have opened their arms.
As the sun goes on Mumbai's maidans, young boys, their flannels gone brown from the dust, walk back with talk of big scores, blinding catches and terrific bowling spells. These days, the buzz in Mumbai is about three teenagers—Sarfaraz Khan, Arman Jaffer and Prithvi Shaw—and their superlative scores with the bat. For the first time since Sachin Tendulkar made his debut, these three youngsters have set the city grounds on fire. Playing for Mumbai's Rizvi Springfield School, Sarfaraz, Arman and Prithvi have an aggregate of 25,000 runs between them over the last three seasons. Sarfaraz has smashed 31 centuries while Prithvi has over 25. Arman has crossed the 100-mark on 55 occasions—28 of them coming in one season. That's a total of around 120 tons between the three. Also Read
In the 80’s, deep in the bowels of the Bandra suburb in Mumbai, narrow lanes used to snake up to a Dhobi Ghaat. A man, with a boy slung over his shoulder, would walk there in the nights, the sound of clothes thrashing against the washing-mound producing the soundtrack of those silent moonlit summer nights. There was no fan in his house and the boy struggled to sleep. So, he would hang limply over his brother Kaleem Jaffer’s shoulder in their night walks. “Voh paani ki chheetein nikalti thi na, (the water spray) would be cool and Wasim used to doze off”. The brothers, 15 years apart in age, would have spent all day playing and training for cricket. It was the dream of their father, a bus driver who loved the game, that one day his second son Kaleem would make it big. Forced by financial difficulties, Kaleem gave up that dream but promised his father that he would make Wasim Jaffer, the youngest of the four brothers, play for India. Read More
It’s become an annual affair now for coach Raju Pathak seeing one of his Rizvi Springfield lads put up a gargantuan score and shatter a batting record along the way, followed by a melee of reporters and photographers hounding the record-breaker for pictures and soundbytes. Read More
Mumbai Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prithvi Shaw (c), Armaan Jaffer, Suved Parkar, Sarfaraz Khan, Aditya Tare (wk), Shams Mulani, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohit Avasthi, Tushar Deshpande.
Uttarakhand Playing XI: Jay Bista (c), Kamal, Kunal Chandela, Robin Bist, Swapnil K Singh, D Negi, Shivam Khurana (wk), Mayank Mishra, Agrim Tiwari, Madhwal A, D Dhapola![]()
Mumbai opted to bat against Uttarakhand. Punjab and Madhya Pradesh match is delayed by another hour due to wet outfield.
Bengal openers Abhishek Raman (12*) and Abhimanyu Easwaran (15*) are off to a sedate start against Jharkhand. The duo have put on 27 runs in nine overs. It has been a cautious approach by both the batters so far.
Many of the biggest names in Mumbai cricket have spent their formative years at Shivaji Park. And so it takes something special to grab the locals' attention. On Sunday, a small group of tennis-ball cricketers were transfixed by the deeds of an eight-year-old. Musheer Khan scored only two runs, but his 58-minute stay at the crease ensured that Sportsfield CC managed to draw their G division Kanga League match against Catholic Gymkhana. And only a few hours ago, Musheer had taken a five-wicket haul with his left-arm spin and become the youngest player in the history of the tournament to achieve the feat. Read More
From not making it to the Haryana Under-19 team, pursuing engineering, moving to Kolkata and playing Ranji Trophy for Bengal despite being labelled an ‘outsider’, to making a mark in the Indian Premier League, Shahbaz Ahmed has seen it all. In 2015, Shahbaz, a third-year civil engineering student, told his father Ahmed Jan that he wants to move to Kolkata to pursue his cricketing dreams after a suggestion from Pramod Chandila, a former Bengal cricketer (Chandila is playing for Haryana now). Jan, a clerk in the sub-divisional magistrate’s office in Haryana’s Nuh district, booked a train ticket for his son on the condition that he will complete his engineering degree. Read More
Jharkhand skipper Saurabh Tiwary has won the toss and had elected to field first against Bengal.
Bengal Playing XI: AR Easwaran (c), Abhishek Kumar Raman, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Anustup Majumdar, Manoj Tiwary, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abishek Porel (wk), Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Porel, Writtick Bijoy Chatterjee
Jharkhand Playing XI: Saurabh Tiwary (c), Virat Singh, Kumar Deobrat, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Md Nazim, Utkarsh Singh, Shahbaz Nadeem, Anukul Roy, Ashish Kumar, Rahul Shukla, Sushant Mishra
Toos has been delayed due to a wet outfield in Alur. The matches between Mumbai vs Uttarakhand, Karnataka vs Uttar Pradesh and Punjab vs Madhya Pradesh is delayed by 30 minutes.