Chintan Gaja

Medium pacer Chintan Gaja grabbed a fifer to lead Gujarat's fight-back after they conceded a 52-run first-innings lead against Saurashtra on the third day of their Ranji Trophy semi-final on Monday.

Barring Sanju's 78 off 82 balls (8x4, 1x6), a tremendous effort under the circumstances, there was not much resistance from Kerala as they succumbed to a 90-run loss against hosts Gujrat in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match at Lalbhai Contractor Stadium in Surat on Friday.

The derby clash has come alive. Not bowing to the circumstances, but bending them to his own will, Chintan Gaja set the ball rolling first with the bat and then with the ball on Day-three of the Ranji Trophy semifinal at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot on Monday.

Hosts Gujarat defeated Baroda by 40 runs in their last Group A match to remain unbeaten in the league stage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Sunday. Opting to bat, Gujarat posted 277 for 7, riding on opener Dhruv Raval's 102 off 129 balls and then restricted the opposition to 237 for 9. Experienced leg-spinner Piyush Chawla (3/52) shone bright with the ball for Gujarat.

Gujarat's Chintan Gaja claimed 4 wickets to restrict Saurashtra to 216 on day one of the Ranji Trophy quarter-final. Chirag Jani top-scored with 69, but Saurashtra struggled afterward. By the end of the day, Gujarat was 21 without loss, with Priyank Panchal and Arya Desai remaining unbeaten.

An ambulance made its way into the ground after a wild throw, on follow-through, by West Zone medium pacer Chintan Gaja injured Central Zone's Venkatesh Iyer during their Duleep Trophy match on Friday.

Behind the ferocious fast bowler Chintan Gaja lives a feisty batsman who has done a remarkable job to bail Gujarat out from a tricky situation. As he talks about his dream outing on Day Three of the Ranji Trophy semifinal at the SCA Stadium here on Monday, Gaja was proud to recall his exploits as a batsman during his Under-16 days at the school and state level matches.

Medium-pacer Chintan Gaja grabbed a five-wicket haul before Gujarat stretched their overall lead to a mammoth 587 runs against Goa in their Ranji Trophy quarter-final on Saturday.

Skipper Priyank Panchal remained not out on 71 after seamer Chintan Gaja's excellent 6/49 helped Gujarat cut short reigning champions Madhya Pradesh's first innings at 312 in their Ranji Trophy Group D match on Wednesday.

Tilak Varma's quick-fire 75 and an impressive show by the bowlers helped Hyderabad beat Gujarat by 30 runs in their quarter-final match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament on Thursday.

Vidarbha, trailing Gujarat by 141 runs, ended Day 2 of their Ranji Trophy match at 202 for 2. Karun Nair (81*) and Danish Malewar (76*) forged an unbeaten 152-run partnership to rescue Vidarbha after a shaky start. Earlier, Gujarat skipper Chintan Gaja's unbeaten 86 helped his team reach 343 all out.

Gujarat captain Chintan Gaja has credited all-rounder Axar Patel for infusing fearlessness and confidence in the team's batting after a period of struggle. Axar has also played a key role in enhancing the Gujarat cricketers' game awareness and transformed their mentality astutely.

Opener Abhimanyu Easwaran showed his mettle under pressure as his patient 129 enabled Bengal to score 261/6 at stumps on the first day of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final against defending champions Gujarat.

The defending champions, Madhya Pradesh, beat Gujarat by 260 runs to win their fifth straight Ranji Trophy. Madhya Pradesh is in first place in Group D with 32 points, while Gujarat is fourth with 14 points from five matches. The match started at 1892, and Madhya Pradesh declared their innings at 2806 after Shubham Sharma 101 reached his century chasing an improbable 382 for win. Gujarat were skittled out for 121 with Ahmedabad's Saransh Jain grabbing 644 wickets and Gaurav Yadav taking three wickets conceding 41 runs. Captain and batting mainstay Priyank Panchal was unable to bat, and only Pacer Chintan Gaja contributed 32 runs.

Arpit Vasavada hit a career-best unbeaten century before Parth Bhut shone with the ball as Saurashtra outclassed Gujarat by 107 runs in a Group A Vijay Hazare Trophy match on Thursday.

After dismissing Gujarat for 263 on the first day, Karnataka reached 328 for five at the end of Day 2, with Manish Pandey contributing an unbeaten 50 and Sujay Sateri on 24. The duo has already built a partnership of 60 runs. The opening pair of Ravikumar Samarth (60) and Mayank (109) provided Karnataka with a strong start, putting together a partnership of 172 runs. Mayank reached his 16th first-class century off 124 deliveries, featuring 17 fours and a six.

The 150-run opening partnership between skipper Parthiv Patel (76, 60b, 10x4, 1x6) and Priyank Panchal (80, 91b, 8x4, 1x6) was the cornerstone of Gujarat's six-wicket win over Delhi in a rain-affected quarterfinal encounter at the Just Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Undoing all the great work they had done to get back into the match, Kerala's batting crumbled when it mattered the most as they lost by 70 runs against Gujarat in the Thimmappiah Memorial KSCA tournament at Mysore on Monday.

Gujarat opener Priyank Panchal's unbeaten 117 and Aarya Desai's 73 put their team in a strong position against Kerala in the Ranji Trophy semifinal. Gujarat recovered from early struggles to dismiss Kerala for 457, thanks to contributions from their bowlers led by A Nagwaswalla.

8,2,4,8,7,5,0,0 could sound similar to the digits in a telephone directory but these were individual scores from Punjab’s famed batting line-up, that resulted in a huge 110-run loss to Gujarat on the final day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match on Wednesday.

After their batsmen had played their part in declaring their opening essay at 590-2, West Zone’s bowlers came to the fore to bowl out North East Zone for 235 in the first innings on Day 3 of their Duleep Trophy clash at Chepauk on Saturday. Medium-pacer Chintan Gaja (4-38) and left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat (3-35) played a major role in West Zone taking a 355-run first innings. West Zone chose not to enforce the follow-on and were 12 for 1 at stumps. For the North East Zone, their biggest positive arrived in the form of Ankur Malik who top-scored with 81.

Tamil Nadu - thanks to their first-innings lead against Gujarat in their Group A Ranji Trophy clash in Belagavi - have more or less sealed their spot in the knockouts stages of the competition.

Arpit Vasavada's gritty 139 propelled Saurashtra to set a challenging 327-run target for Gujarat on the fourth day of their Ranji Trophy semi-final on Tuesday.

After their batsmen had played their part piling up 590-2 declared, West Zone’s bowlers came to the fore to bowl out North East Zone for 235 in the first innings on Day 3 of their Duleep Trophy clash at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday.

Leg-spinner Abhishek Raut picked up a fifer, his career-best figures, to help Odisha beat Vidharbha by six wickets in a Group A match of the Vijay Hazare One-Day Nationals here on Saturday.

Opener Saurav Chauhan hit eight sixes in his 141 off 121 balls while keeper Het Patel struck an unbeaten 109 as Gujarat beat Vidarbha by 46 runs in a high-scoring Group A league match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Sunday.

Spinner Siddharth Desai achieved a historic milestone by recording the best bowling figures in an innings by a Gujarat cricketer in first-class cricket with his 9/36 against Uttarakhand in the Ranji Trophy. Despite missing out on a 10-wicket haul, Siddharth credited his teammates' support and remained focused on his father's dream of representing India in Tests.

Priyank Panchal has been named the captain of Gujarat for the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2022-23, the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) said on Thursday. The Vijay Hazare Trophy is the premier domestic one day tournament.