Arpit Vasavada’s century helped Saurashtra lead by a wide 370 runs over Delhi in the second day of the elite Group B fixture in the fourth round of the Ranji Trophy at Rajkot.
Arpit Vasavadas (127 nos, 218b, 11×4, 1×6) 10. Hundreds of leading men were out in Delhi on Day 2 of Round 4 of the Ranji Trophy Elite when Saurashtra led by 370 runs by four wickets. It overshadowed the exploits on the ball of the main player Hrithik Shokeen. – Group B match on Wednesday at Rajkot. The host side was 6 to 503 in stumps.
Vasavada drove and swept every time Delhi’s spinner went full or wide. He reached his 168-ball century and celebrated by raising his racket in the air as his family watched. Prerak Mankad was a perfect foil on a streak of 128 runs and scored a smooth 64. Prior to that, the weather had been fine, but when Saurashtra set out to win Delhi, the weather was fine but bitterly cold and windy. Aside from a strange stream of SCA officers, the crowd remained very small.
Derry had a breakthrough on the turntables within his first half hour of the morning. Harvik his Desai added just his three points to last night’s score of 104 before shoving and covering the ball from Shokin and lifting it for a single.
However, Chirag his bad misunderstanding with Jani saw Desai fall short and end his stand with his second wicket of 139 runs. “Bhan toh hovi joiye ne (should have shown calmness),” said some in the dugout of Saurashtra, before all gave Desai a unanimous applause. Saurashtra lost the next two wickets for just 32 runs, with Jani trailing Kuldip Yadav by 75 points and Sheldon Jackson bowled clean by Shokeen.
Shokeen became the first tactical substitute known as an “impact player” in his Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy last year. Today he had his day again and in the first session he bowled 16 soding overs for just over two runs per over. Shokeen’s use of creases and his angles round and over was impressive. But the off-spinner Sivank’s lack of a vassist made his workload even worse. Derry conceded 82 in the first session and took 3 wickets. But his good work was marred by his 5-wicket stand for 99 runs between Arpit Vasavada and Samarth Vyas, with Samarth Vyas batting his 50 and over 200 putting him in Saurashtra’s lead. robbed. Delhi took a new ball in 94 overs and insisted on Shokin one after another.
The move ultimately paid off as Samarth was unable to handle the extra jumps and spins and provided an easy short his leg chance. This proved to be the last moment of Delhi’s spirits as Vasavada took over and continued to rack up misery.