Deepraj Gaonkar

UP are on the verge of a win against Goa as they need just 41 runs to register a victory in Col CK Nayudu Trophy championship match being played at Alur Cricket Stadium, Bengaluru 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.

Chhattisgarh will play Goa in a Ranji Trophy match at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Arjun Tendulkar, son of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, will be part of Goa's team. Tendulkar has been very successful in first class cricket, taking 12 wickets at an economy rate of 335 and averaging 405. He has also scored 486 runs, while batting at lower order. The squad of Goa includes Amogh Desai, Arjun Tendulkar, Darshan Misal, Deepraj Gaonkar, Felix Alemao, Ishan Gadekar, K. D. Eknath, Lakshya A Garg, Mohit Redkar, Samar Dubhashi, Shubham Desai, Snehal Kauthankar, Suyash S Prabhudessai, Vijesh Prabhudesaich, and Basudev Bareth.

Opener Devdutt Padikkal showcased his excellent form by scoring an unbeaten 151 on Day 1 of the Group C match against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy. This marked his third century of the current Ranji season. Karnataka reached 288 for 5 at the close of play. The visitors faced an early setback with the dismissal of skipper Mayank Agarwal for 20 runs when the team's score was 35. Agarwal had returned to the side after missing the previous game against Railways due to an incident where he accidentally consumed a liquid on a flight.

Shoun Roger’s brilliant hundred has put Kerala on the verge of surpassing Goa’s first total at the end of Day 3 of their CK Nayudu Trophy encounter at Alur grounds in Bengaluru on Thursday. At stumps, Kerala were 413 for six and trail Goa by 42 runs.

Chhattisgarh will host Goa in a Ranji Trophy match to be played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium from Tuesday.

Sarfaraz, who was also among the runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, brought up a century off 56 balls, his third hundred in List A cricket. Mumbai piled up 444 for 8 and then limited Goa to 357 for 9.

Goa’s senior cricketers have reasons to be afraid, very afraid

Slow left-arm orthodox bowler Ajay Mandal has completed 100 wickets, the first to achieve this milestone while playing only for Chhattisgarh, in the Ranji Trophy when the bowler claimed five scalps of Goa to guide his team to beat the visitors by eight wickets.

Former skipper Saurabh Tiwary and young wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra's unbeaten 129-run stand for the fifth-wicket helped hosts Jharkhand reach a formidable 280 for 4 at the end of first day's play against Goa in their second match of Ranji Trophy Elite Group C at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur on Tuesday.

Prabhsimran Singh's aggressive century helped Punjab find some late fight against Karnataka and post 238 for three in their second innings on the third day of the Elite Group C Ranji Trophy match here Sunday.

Batting at No. 4, Sarfaraz Khan blasted nine fours and 14 sixes, bringing up his hundred off just 56 balls. His innings left Goa’s bowlers and fielders looking shellshocked. On Wednesday, he delivered it with a sledgehammer, scoring a blistering 157 off 75 balls to power Mumbai to a 87-run victory over Goa at the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground.

Panaji: The Goa Cricket Association has decided to fund both Goan teams which will take part in the Goa Corporate League, starting Saturday at the Academy ground in Porvorim.

Wicketkeeper-batter N Jagadeesan starred with a knock of 114 off 112 balls in Tamil Nadu's nine-wicket win over Andhra in a Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day cricket tournament on Sunday.