Abhishek Purohit

Kaustubh Pawar turns the tables on MP

Kaustubh Pawar rescued Mumbai from a precarious position with a fiercely-determined century and along with the lower order, all but batted Madhya Pradesh out of the Ranji Trophy

03-Jan-2012•Abhishek Purohit at the Holkar Cricket Stadium

Why so defensive, Mumbai?

Madhya Pradesh's last pair was at the crease when the Mumbai captain Wasim Jaffer pushed back seven fielders to the deep. It set the tone for a day when Mumbai just refused to take charge.

02-Jan-2012•Abhishek Purohit at the Holkar Cricket Stadium

MP rally after timid batting effort

Madhya Pradesh's fast bowlers fought back with relentless discipline, after their batsmen displayed poor application against an average attack, on a wicket that demanded it

02-Jan-2012•The Report by Abhishek Purohit at the Holkar Cricket Stadium

Madhya Pradesh banking on seamers

While Mumbai's depleted attack might not seem threatening, they have the pedigree of Dhawal Kulkarni and Ramesh Powar to test MP, who are banking on TP Sudhindra and Ishwar Pandey to make inroads

01-Jan-2012•Abhishek Purohit in Indore

'The balance has been missing' - Jaffer

The Mumbai side that will face Madhya Pradesh is almost unrecognisable from the team that played Rajasthan last year, due to injuries and unavailability of players

01-Jan-2012•Abhishek Purohit in Indore

Off-season preparation the reason for MP's rise

The lack of star players and professional signings has actually worked in Madhya Pradesh's favour this season. They've also shown the resilience to progress after a disastrous season opener

01-Jan-2012•Abhishek Purohit

Depleted Mumbai demolish Punjab to top group

Ankeet Chavan took four wickets as nine-man Mumbai routed Punjab by nine-wickets to top Group A

24-Dec-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit at the Wankhede

Lower order helps depleted Mumbai hold edge

Ramesh Powar and Ankeet Chavan nearly ended Punjab's Ranji Trophy season with feisty lower-order batting and almost ensured that nine-man Mumbai would top Group A

23-Dec-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit at the Wankhede

Jaffer breaks record, gives Mumbai lead

Wasim Jaffer became the highest run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy and, along with Suryakumar Yadav, steered Mumbai past Punjab's first-innings total during a typically elegant knock

22-Dec-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit at the Wankhede

Jaffer breaks Ranji run record

Wasim Jaffer overtook Amol Muzumdar to become the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy history

22-Dec-2011•Abhishek Purohit at the Wankhede

Sandhu dashes Punjab's knockout hopes

Thirty-one years after his namesake took five wickets on first-class debut, Balwinder Sandhu repeated the feat and dealt a blow to Punjab's hopes of securing a quarter-final berth

21-Dec-2011•Abhishek Purohit at the Wankhede

Acrobatics from Akmal

ESPNCricinfo presents Plays of the Day from the first day in Mirpur

17-Dec-2011•Abhishek Purohit

Shakib, Nafees rescue Bangladesh

Shahriar Nafees and Shakib Al Hasan batted for almost two sessions to rescue Bangladesh from what had looked set to be yet another low total, after Aizaz Cheema had reduced them to 43 for 4 in helpful morning conditions

17-Dec-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

Tricky Kotla and an outrageous injury

ESPNcricinfo looks at the highlights of the third round of the Ranji Trophy 2011-12

22-Nov-2011•Abhishek Purohit

Afridi's return sets up appetising opener

ESPNcricinfo previews the first ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Dubai

10-Nov-2011•The Preview by Abhishek Purohit

Zimbabwe steady in reply to NZ's 426

Zimbabwe ran through the lower half of the New Zealand batting, limiting the damage that Daniel Vettori and Dean Brownlie threatened to do in a brisk sixth-wicket partnership revived the stalled innings

02-Nov-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

Guptill, Taylor put NZ in control on flat pitch

New Zealand's batsmen had the opportunity to dominate Zimbabwe on a lifeless Bulawayo surface but a cautious approach against restricting lines and fielders in run-saving positions limited their day to a good one

01-Nov-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

India canter to another comprehensive win

England's weakness against spin cost them for the third time in the series as they unravelled from a strong position to post an underwhelming total on a slow turning pitch

23-Oct-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

Sangakkara, Prasanna Jayawardene earn draw for SL

Kumar Sangakkara and Prasanna Jayawardene defied Pakistan for six hours, batting almost till tea on the final day to earn a draw for Sri Lanka

22-Oct-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

Pakistan thwarted by Sangakkara, dropped chances

Five dropped catches and four wickets summed up a profligate day for Pakistan on which their bowlers toiled to create numerous chances only for their fielders - led by Mohammad Hafeez - to spill them

21-Oct-2011•The Report by Abhishek Purohit

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