Ravindra Jadeja's excellent all-round effort — 5 wickets and 38 runs — outshone Rishabh Pant's minuscule 10-ball 1 as Saurashtra gained good foothold over a shoddy Delhi after Day 1 of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group D match on Thursday. (More Cricket News)
Battiℱng first, Delhi were shut out for 188 with captain Ayush Badoni (60, 78b, 5x4, 2x6) and Yash Dhull (44, 76b, 8x4) leading their batting effort.
However, they failed to convert their knocks into something more substantial as India left-arm spinner Jadeja ran r🐲oughshod over his clueless opponents with figures of 5 for 66.
Fel🐻low left-♛arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja supported his senior with a three-wicket haul.
In r🦂eply, Saurashtra re👍ached 163 for five with opener Harvik Desai making a 93 off 120 balls with eight fours.
The hosts now need 26 more runs to gain a vital first innings lead on a pitch tꦛhat is increasingly assisting spinners.
Utkarsh stars with fifer
Off-spinner Utka🐻rsh Singh (5/50) was the wrecker-in-chief as Jharkhand bowled out Chattisgarh for 230 to get an early move on in the match.
Opener Anuj Tiwari carried his bat through for a 99 (225b, 9x4, 2x6) for Chattisgarh, but Utakarsh's regular strikes never allowed the visitors to have momentum at any stage of their first inn🦩ings.
Jharkhand reached 11 without any damage in the last ♐six overs of ⭕the day.
Brief scores
At Rajkot: Delhi: 188 all ou💃t in 49.4 overs (Ayush Badoni 60, Yash Dhull 44; Ravindra Jade🔯ja 5/66, D Jadeja 3/63) vs Saurashtra: 163/5 in 38.5 overs (Harvik Desai 93, Ravindra Jadeja 38; Shivam Sharma 2/36).
At Jamshedpur: Chattisgarh: 230 all out in 80.3 overs (Anuj Sharma 99 not out, Asutosh Singh 43; Utkarsh Singh 5/50) vs J﷽harkhꦏand: 11/0 in 6 overs.
At Salem: Tamil Nadu: 301 all out in 89.1 overs (Andre♍ Siddharth 106, N Jagadeesan 63, Baba Indrajith 49, Mohamed Ali 40; Vishu Kashyap 5/79).
