Madhya Pradesh hit back strongly

Visakhapatnam: Holders Madhya Pradesh came back strongly on the third day of their Ranji Trophy quarterfinal against Andhra at the Holkar Stadium in Indore on Thursday. After conceding a first innings lead of 151 runs, Madhya Pradesh, who were restricted to 228, bundled out Andhra for 93 in the second innings and need 187 runs to win the match.
Left-arm medium pacer Prithvi Raj Yarra claimed five for 26, his first in 15 first-class matches, to give Andhra the lead.MP resumed at 144 for four and came unstuck against 24-year-old Prithvi. But Andhra’s joy was shortlived as they collapsed like a pack of cards. Pacer Avesh Khan, who played his last ODI five months ago, picked up four for 24, Gourav Yadav three while Kumar Kartikeya Singh had two and Saransh Jain one.
Ashwin Hebbar was the top scorer with 35. Andhra captain GH Vihari, with his broken left wrist strapped heavily, had to step in again as the last batsman. He scored three boundaries batting only with his right hand in a score of 15. He added 17 runs for the last wicket with Prithvi. Shoaib Md. Khan and K Nitish Kumar Reddy were the only other batter to get into double digit scores.
Required to get 245 to win the match, MP were going steady at 58 without loss at stumps.
In Kolkata: Jharkhand 173 & 162/7 in 48 overs (Aryaman Sen 64, Anukul Roy 40; Akash Deep 2/25, Akash Ghatak 2/19, Shahbaz Ahmed 2/38) vs Bengal 328 in 108 overs (Shahbaz Ahmed 81, Abhimanyu Easwaran 77, Sudip Gharami 68, Abishek Porel 33; Ashish Kumar 3/89, Rahul Shukla 2/65, Supriyo Chakraborty 2/87). In Indore: Andhra 379 & 93 in 32.3 overs (Ashwin Hebbar 35; Avesh Khan 4/24, Gourav Yadav 3/10) vs Madhya Pradesh 228 in 69.1 overs (Shubham Sharma 51, Aditya Shrivastava 31; Y Prithvi Raj 5/26, KV Sasikanth 3/49) & 58/0 in 16 overs (Himanshu Mantri 31 batting). In Bangalore: Uttarakhand 116 & 106/3 in 41 overs (Dikshanshu Negi 27 batting, Swapnil Singh 27 batting; Vidwath Kaverappa 2/22) vs Karnataka 606 in 162.5 overs (Shreyas Gopal 161 no, Mayank Agarwal 83, Ravikumar Samarth 82, Devdutt Padikkal 69, Nikin Jose 62; Abhay Negi 4/109, Mayank Mishra 3/117, Swapnil Singh 2/118). In Rajkot: Saurashtra 303 & 138/4 in 54 overs (Snell Patel 33, Arpit Vasavada 44 batting, Chirag Jani 35 batting; Vinay Choudhary 3/61) vs Punjab 431 in 124.3 overs (Prabhsimran Singh 126, Naman Dhir 131, Mandeep Singh 91, Anmol Malhotra 41; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 5/109, Parth Bhut 3/114).