Great debut season. Heartbreaking injury. Loss of form. But Sudeep Tyagi did enough in his first season of first-class cricket to merit a central contract, and to be retained by Chennai Super Kings

Pradeep Sangwan produced a superb spell of seam bowling to bowl out Uttar Pradesh for 177 before Gautam Gambhir cracked an unbeaten 130 to lead Delhi's march to becoming the Ranji champions for the seventh time

Delhi's initiative in rooting out the malpractices in its cricket administration has worked wonders

Praveen Kumar exhibited some deadly swing bowling at the Wankhede Stadium, prompting Manoj Prabhakar to label him a magician

Praveen Kumar's eight-wicket haul swung Uttar Pradesh to a 52-run lead before Suresh Raina propelled them to a great position with an attacking unbeaten 82 by tea on day three of the Ranji final

Charged by a triple-strike from Praveen Kumar, Uttar Pradesh seized the initiative but Delhi rallied through Aakash Chopra and Rajat Bhatia to reduce the deficit to 146 runs, with six wickets intact at the close of the second day's play

Match home for the Ranji Super League final between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in Mumbai

One common thing binds the two stars of the day. Tanmay Srivastava and Pradeep Sangwan had just returned from the India Under-19s tour of South Africa

Tanmay Srivastava chose the occasion to script his maiden first-class hundred and pushed Uttar Pradesh to 292 for 7