Aditya Waghmode

Aditya Waghmode, who captained Baroda Ranji team this season, has been again entrusted with captaincy for Syed Mushtaq Ali (West Zone) T20 league tournament.

Opener Aditya Waghmode on Friday hit a magnificent 138 and helped Baroda take a massive 205 runs first innings lead over Mumbai in their Ranji Trophy Group C match here on day 2.

Baroda bowlers Atit Sheth and Lukman Meriwala had bowled their hearts out to enable their side to restrict Mumbai on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy encounter at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. The duo shared all ten wickets equally as the hosts folded for 171.

Opener Kedar Devdhar hit a stroke-filled 145 as Baroda took a sizeable lead of 303 runs, despite narrowly falling short of Mumbai's first innings total, on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match.

Skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla led from the front as Bengal beat Baroda by four runs in a Super League match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20.

A superb unbeaten knock of 86 by Sahil Gupta and useful contributions from W Saurabh (45), Aditya Waghmode (48) and Sunil Sharma (39) helped Baroda Cricket Associaton take a vital first innings lead of 90 runs over Sunil Gavaskar XI.

Brothers Krunal and Hardik Pandya excelled with the bat and ball respectively as Baroda crushed Punjab by 75 runs in a Vijay Hazare Trophy group A match on Tuesday.

Jay Desai scored a masterly 60 and put on 100 runs for the first wicket with Aditya Waghmode (49) as Income Tax defeated Andhra Bank by five wickets and inched closer to the semifinal of the BCCI Corporate Trophy.

The much-vaunted Mumbai batting line-up came a cropper on a lively track against the Baroda pace bowling duo of Atit Sheth and Lukman Meriwala as the hosts were shot out for a paltry 171 on day one of their 500th Ranji Trophy game on Thursday.

Medium pacer Ramandeep Singh rattled Baroda with a hat-trick and powered Punjab to a nine-wicket win in their Vijay Hazare Trophy Group D match on Tuesday.

Hosts Karnataka gained an upper hand by taking the crucial first innings lead over Mumbai in their Elite Group A Ranji Trophy game on Thursday.

A brilliant performance with bat and ball by Aditya Waghmode helped holders Baroda Cricket Association XI take a big first innings lead over Dilip Vengsarkar XI in the MCA's under-22 tournament .

Baroda registered a 15-run win over Rajasthan in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Super League clash here on Thursday evening. Baroda posted a stiff total of 201 for 5 and then went on to restrict Rajasthan to 186/8.

Kerala shocked Baroda by 22 runs but failed to progress to the final from Group B as the latter went through on the last ball by virtue of a better net run rate.

Left-arm spinner Avinash Yadav returned career-best figures of five for 50 as Railways bowled out Baroda for a paltry 183 in their Ranji Trophy Group A match on Sunday.

It was a strange sight. Every time he would face Shubham Ranjane, Vishnu Solanki would stand a few inches outside his off stump. The unorthodox stance had been devised to counter the part-time seamer’s simple plan — keep bowling outside the off stump, pack the off side with seven fielders, and frustrate the batsman. And the counter-plan worked beautifully, albeit due to the skills of Solanki.

Rival captains Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan practised at the Nashik District Cricket Association (NDCA) ground ahead of the Ranji Trophy encounter between Uttar Pradesh and Baroda.

West Zone will be without key players Rohit Sharma and Dhawal Kulkarni in their Deodhar Trophy campaign after injuries ruled them out of the one-day tournament, which started on Sunday.