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Chandrakant Pandit: Less of a general, more of a 12th man
Vidarbha's senior players, and Pandit himself, share what makes a unit that's always hungry for success
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Ranji Trophy
Season review
Chandrakant Pandit: Less of a general, more of a 12th man
Vidarbha's senior players, and Pandit himself, share what makes a unit that's always hungry for success
Team of the season: a 40-year old, a teenager, and two left-arm spinners
Four Vidarbha players make it to the side, while Saurashtra's Jaydev Unadkat captains our XI
Aditya Sarwate seizes his biggest moment yet
The allrounder's journey to domestic cricket's highest peaks has been all about two words tattooed on his arm: 'Carpe Diem'
India
Cricket
Ranji team of the season: a 40-year old, a teenager, and two left-arm spinners
Four Vidarbha players, two from Saurashtra, and a cricketer each from Rajasthan, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat make it to our team of the season
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Aditya Sarwate seizes his biggest moment yet
The allrounder's journey to domestic cricket's highest peaks has been all about two words tattooed on his arm: 'Carpe Diem'
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Unadkat confident of bright future despite Saurashtra's stumble at the final hurdle
The loss to Vidarbha was Saurashtra's third straight defeat in a Ranji Trophy final, but their captain and coach were pleased with the side's fight throughout this season
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'If anyone thought last year was a fluke, we have proven ourselves again'
Faiz Fazal and Chandrakant Pandit, Vidarbha's captain and coach, speak about what it took for the team to win back-to-back Ranji Trophy titles
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Aditya Sarwate takes 11, Vidarbha win second straight Ranji Trophy title
The left-arm spinner picked up his maiden ten-wicket match-haul as Saurashtra were bowled out for 127, losing by 78 runs
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Vidarbha 'confident but not complacent' after Sarwate jolts Saurashtra
Performance of lower-order batsmen throughout the match is something to keep in mind, says Ganesh Satish
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Sarwate spins Vidarbha in front on 13-wicket day
Saurashtra stutter to 58 for 5 in their second innings, still 148 runs away from the target
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Vidarbha edge ahead after attritional day's play
Defending champions end the third day 60 runs in front, with eight second-innings wickets in hand
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Smart planning, smarter execution - how Vidarbha plotted Cheteshwar Pujara's fall
Aditya Sarwate's third wicket of the day could well be the most important of the final
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Saurashtra falter around unbeaten Snell Patel
Vidarbha offspinner Aditya Sarwate ran through Saurashtra's top order, also accounting for Cheteshwar Pujara for just 1
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Saurashtra attack limits Vidarbha on opening day
Saurashtra chipped away steadily at Vidarbha on a day of attritional cricket, ending the first day of the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 final in a position of advantage
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Jaffer and Pujara: genial giants of domestic cricket
As they prepare for another Ranji final, here's a brief of their feats in Ranji Trophy through the prism of numbers
India
Cricket
Vidarbha v Saurashtra - a fitting Ranji final
Rarely do you get a battle that checks every box - the best teams in the competition, top stars available, and evenly matched
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Battles of the Ranji final: Pujara v Umesh and Jaffer v Unadkat
On the eve of the final on Saturday, there were two sets of a pair of players engaged in animated conversation in the nets sessions in Nagpur
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Sheldon Jackson - support act to Cheteshwar Pujara, leading man in his own right
Opportunities at the higher levels have been hard to come by, but the Saurashtra stalwart has no grudges
Karnataka
Cricket
After semi-final heartbreak, Karnataka ponder road ahead
With many of their stalwarts busy elsewhere or fading away, the Ranji Trophy powerhouses find themselves at a crossroads
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When Vinay Kumar met Cheteshwar Pujara
One wanted to do something big, the other had a job to finish - a fortunate few at the ground witnessed a classic contest
India
Cricket
Lack of DRS in focus as Pujara rides his luck in Ranji semi-final
Players and coaches involved in the game between Karnataka and Saurashtra have indicated that they would welcome the use of technology in domestic cricket, especially in knockout matches.
Saurashtra
Cricket
Pujara 'wants it more than any one of us' - Unadkat
In the Ranji final for the third time in seven seasons, Saurashtra are eager to win the title but not afraid of losing it, says their captain
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Cheteshwar Pujara stays unbeaten to steer Saurashtra into final
Sheldon Jackson also completed a century to help them set up a title bout against defending champions Vidarbha
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Pujara and Jackson steer Saurashtra to the brink of victory
They put on an unbroken 201 runs for the fourth wicket to deflate Karnataka, who at one stage had reduced Saurashtra to 23 for 3 in their chase of 279
Saurashtra
Cricket
Left-arm wristspin to left-arm orthodox: the other Jadeja finally gets it right
From being insecure about his place in the Saurashtra side, Dharmendrasinh has carved out his own identity both with bat and ball this Ranji Trophy season
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Shreyas Gopal and Abhimanyu Mithun frustrate Saurashtra on seesawing day
The ninth-wicket pair added an unbroken 61 to extend Karnataka's lead to 276 and give them the edge on a pitch with inconsistent bounce
Ranji Trophy
| Elite, Group A | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| VIDAR | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | -- |
| SAU | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | -- |
| KNTKA | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 27 | -- |
| GUJ | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 | -- |
| BRODA | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 26 | -- |
| MUM | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | -- |
| RLYS | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 14 | -- |
| MAHA | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | -- |
| CGARH | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | -- |
| Elite, Group B | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| KER | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 26 | -- |
| MP | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 24 | -- |
| BENG | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23 | -- |
| PNJB | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23 | -- |
| HP | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 22 | -- |
| AP | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | -- |
| HYD | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | -- |
| TN | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | -- |
| DELHI | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | -- |
| Elite, Group C | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| RAJ | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 51 | -- |
| UP | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 41 | -- |
| JKAND | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | -- |
| ODSH | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 26 | -- |
| HRYNA | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 22 | -- |
| ASSAM | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 21 | -- |
| J + K | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 19 | -- |
| SVCS | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 19 | -- |
| TPURA | 9 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 | -- |
| GOA | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | -- |
| Plate Group | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| UKHND | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 44 | -- |
| Bihar | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 40 | -- |
| PONDI | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 33 | -- |
| MEGHA | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 29 | -- |
| SIKM | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 27 | -- |
| MNPR | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 | -- |
| NAGA | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 18 | -- |
| ARPR | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | -- |
| MIZOR | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | -- |
