RESULT
Group A, Jaipur, December 01 - 03, 2015, Ranji Trophy
151 & 129
(T:230) 51 & 231/8

Rajasthan won by 2 wickets

Player Of The Match
6/27 & 4/31
aniket-choudhary
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Rajasthan clinch two-wicket win in 230 chase

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group A matches played on December 3, 2015

Rajasthan 51 (Sahoo 6-33, Mohanty 4-17) and 231 for 8 (Puneet 59, Dobal 52, Mohanty 3-65) beat Odisha 151 (Sarangi 43, Choudhary 6-27) and 129 (Sahoo 31, Choudhary 4-31, Pankaj 4-43) by two wickets
Scorecard
Rajasthan stole a slender two-wicket win against Odisha by chasing down 230 in the last innings on the third day in Jaipur. Rajasthan turned things around despite being routed for 51 in their first innings, which is the second-lowest first-innings total to win a Ranji Trophy match.
Rajasthan were 79 for 2 overnight, still 151 away, and lost Puneet Yadav (59) after he scored only three runs on the third morning. They lost two more wickets - Tanveer-Ul-Haq (21) and Ashok Menaria (20) - in quick succession and were struggling at 118 for 5 before Rajat Bhatia (31) and Siddharth Dobal rescued them with a stand of 76 runs to take them close to 200. However, Bhatia was dismissed by Basant Mohanty and Dobal went on to register a fifty before he too was removed by Mohanty for a run-a-ball 52. From 210 for 7, Rajasthan lost Aniket Choudhary too at the score of 223 but Dishant Yagnik (16*) and Pankaj Singh (8*) held their nerves to take six points.
Assam 143 (Tarjinder 50, Dinda 4-39, Mukesh 3-20, Ojha -33) and (f/o) 72 for 2 (Gani 2-34) trail Bengal 444 by 229 runs
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Right-arm seamer Mukesh Kumar, playing his third first-class match, and Pragyan Ojha shared six wickets between them to wipe Assam out for 143 in 54.4 overs. Resuming on 1 for 4, after Ashok Dinda had scythed through the top order on the second day, Assam lost Amit Verma to Ojha to 9. Tarjinder Singh, aided by contributions from Arun Karthik (30) and Syed Mohammed (31), mounted some resistance but Assam were asked to follow on.
They fared much better in their second dig, reaching 72 for 2 before bad light curbed another day in Guwahati. Opener Pallav Kumar Das (28*) and Gokul Sharma (8*) stayed unbeaten after Aamir Gani dismissed Rahul Hazarika and Amit.
Haryana 241 (Saini 67, Shamsher 50, Jangid 4-44, Sarwate 4-50) and (f/o) 66 for 2 (Saini 42, Jangid 2-17) trail Vidarbha 504 by 197 runs
Scorecard
Ravi Jangid followed his third first-class century with figures of 4 for 44 as Haryana were bowled out for 241 and asked to follow on. Haryana's steady opening partnership of 118 between Nitin Saini and Chaitanya Bishnoi showed only little of what was to follow.
It was offspinner Akshay Wakhare who broke the stand when he got rid of Bishnoi for 47. Saini reached hid fifty but was bowled by Jangid soon after. He made light work of the middle order before Shamsher Yadav become the second half-centurion of the innings. However, Aditya Sarwate collected four wickets of his own to perform the final rites on the innings.
Jangid was at it again, removing the openers in Haryana's second innings. Saini had a good start again, but did not convert it into a big score. Mohit Hooda and Rohit Sharma managed to survive till stumps but Vidarbha are on course to seal their quarter-final spot.
Karnataka 180 and 61 for 1 need 232 runs to beat Maharashtra 212 and 260 (Mundhe 81, Tripathi 78, Vinay 4-71)
Scorecard
Fifties from Shrikant Mundhe and Rahul Tripathi set Karnataka a target of 293 in Pune. The double-treble winning defending champions lost R Samarth to Nikit Dhumal, who took his match tally to four, but Mayank Agarwal and Robin Uthappa scored at a fairly brisk clip as Karnataka closed the day at 61 for 1 in 15 overs.
Earlier, Tripathi, who started the day on 31, went onto make 78 before he was undone by S Aravind. Kedar Jhadav and Vishant More failed to build on starts but Mundhe, coming in at No.8, struck 81 off 150 balls, including seven fours and two sixes to push Maharashtra to 260. Vinay Kumar was the pick of the bowlers for Karnataka, claiming figures of 4 for 71.

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Ranji Trophy

Group A
TEAMMWLDPTNRR
VIDAR8422290.047
BENG8206280.110
ASSAM832326-0.304
DELHI8314250.215
KNTKA8215240.336
RAJ823317-0.313
MAHA8125170.301
ODSA8134120.016
HRYNA80446-0.406
Group B
TEAMMWLDPTNRR
MUM8404350.851
PNJB8323260.045
MP832324-0.059
GUJ831424-0.092
UP821521-0.117
TN822418-0.322
BRODA823317-0.045
RLYS8260120.039
AP804410-0.459
Group C
TEAMMWLDPTNRR
SAU851236-0.061
JHK8422310.088
HP8314301.013
SVCS8314270.472
KER8224250.084
GOA811618-0.210
J + K80359-0.053
HYD80268-0.467
TPURA80533-0.760