Anupam Sanklecha

Gujarat made a winning start to 2019 by defeating hosts Maharashtra by an innings and 130 runs in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group A game on Wednesday.

Medium-pacer Anupam Sanklecha registered his best bowling figures in first-class cricket to help Maharashtra stand on the verge of an innings win against Assam in a Group B Ranji Trophy match on Wednesday.

Biplab Samantaray struck a gritty 89 to help Odisha recover from a disastrous start to end the opening day against Maharashtra on 311 for 9 in their Group B Ranji Trophy cricket match on Tuesday.

Maharashtra scripted an innings and 52 run win over Assam to pocket seven points from their Ranji Trophy Group B match here today.

Last week, under the hot Chennai sun, Anupam Sanklecha produced two frantic spells of fast bowling to take Maharashtra to victory over Assam. So naturally , he would have relished the cooler climes when he reached Krishnagiri for the match against Odisha. And a look at the wicket, which had a vast green patch in the middle, would have made him raring to go.

Chirag Khurana scored an unbeaten 112 as Maharashtra posted a mammoth 542 on day two of their Ranji Trophy Group B against Assam on Tuesday.

Anupam Sanklecha's four-wicket haul helped Maharashtra dismiss Jammu & Kashmir for 209 in the first innings on the opening day of round two of its Ranji Trophy Group C match on Tuesday.

Medium pacer Anupam Sanklecha ripped through Vidarbha with a career-best seven-wicket haul as they crashed to their lowest score of 59 against Maharashtra in their group B Ranji Trophy match on Sunday.

Maharashtra produced a clinical show to defeat Railways by seven wickets in a lop- sided Elite Group A match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy played on Wednesday.

Medium-pacers Diwesh Pathania and Sachidanand Pandey picked up five wickets each to help Services dismiss Maharashtra for 147 in their second innings and register an emphatic win by an innings and 94 runs in a Ranji Trophy Group C match here on Sunday.

Maharashtra batsmen failed to rise to the occasion and are staring at second consecutive defeat, and possibly continue their deplorable stay in Group C of the Ranji Trophy.

Experience is essential but there are times when raw spirit has the upper-hand. Digvijay Deshmukh, making his first-class debut, almost proved that with an extraordinary knock for Maharashtra against Jammu and Kashmir in a Ranji Trophy match Group C match at the Gahunje stadium here on Friday.

Siddhesh Lad and Ravikant Shukla helped Indian Oil beat holders DY Patil CA 'A' by seven wickets to enter the final of the KC Mahindra Memorial cricket tournament.

India Cements dashed DY Patil Group A's title hopes, beating the hosts by six wickets to lift the trophy in the DY Patil T20 Tournament at the DY Patil Stadium, Nerul.

Sanklecha, who claimed 14 wickets in the last match against Vidarbha, has nine five-wicket hauls in first-class career and an overall tally of 154 wickets in 45 matches.

IPL sensation Rahul Tripathi blasted the Bengal bowlers into submission with a 102-ball 125 as Maharashtra comfortably crushed last year's runners-up Bengal by seven wickets in a group B encounter of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Table toppers Saurashtra and former champions Mumbai were involved in a keen tussle for the first innings lead on day two of their Elite Group A Ranji Trophy match at the Wankhede Stadium here on Sunday.

The way Tamil Nadu batted on the opening day of their five-day Ranji Trophy semifinal against Maharashtra, it seemed as if they are strong believers in the adage 'slow but steady wins the race.'

When Mumbai Champs take to the field, all they will have in the mind will be a comprehensive win to salvage the sagging morale.