Sarfaraz Ashraf

Jharkhand became the second team after Bengal to make the main round of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament on net run-rate following their mammoth eight- wicket win over Assam in the East Zone league at the Jadavpur University second campus ground in Saltlake on Saturday.

Disciplined bowling by Basant Mohanty and Paresh Patel helped Odisha register a four-run win over Jharkhand in a thrilling East Zone league match for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

He also bagged a hat-trick to guide his team to an easy 107-run victory over the Madikeri team.

Being on the team of the defending champions isn’t easy.

Not picked by the Mumbai selectors for the Ranji Trophy on the grounds that he “wasn’t fully fit,” pacer Tushar Deshpande is continuing to make a statement in the Times Shield ‘A’ Division.

Not picked by the Mumbai selectors for the Ranji Trophy on the grounds that he “wasn’t fully fit,” pacer Tushar Deshpande is continuing to make a statement in the Times Shield ‘A’ Division.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who was part of India’s Under-19 World Cup-winning team in the West Indies last month, and Rudra Dhandey (133, 144b, 20x4) slammed superb tons on Day One of the fourth round of league matches of the Times Shield ‘A’ Division on Tuesday.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who was part of India’s Under-19 World Cup-winning team in the West Indies last month, and Rudra Dhandey (133, 144b, 20x4) slammed superb tons on Day One of the fourth round of league matches of the Times Shield ‘A’ Division on Tuesday.

Off-spinner Aniket Redkar, 38, took five for 50 to bowl hosts DY Patil 'A' to a nine-wicket win over Indian Navy Sports Control Cell in a Times Shield A Division fourth round league match at the DY Patil Stadium on Thursday.

Seamer Nafees Siddique made a dream List A debut grabbing 6/39 to power Meghalaya to a mammoth 111-run win over Manipur in their Plate Group match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy national one-dayers here on Saturday.

The big-hitting Abhinav Manohar was the top draw at the player auction for the Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 tournament. The middle-order batter was picked up by Shivamogga Lions for Rs 15 lakh at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Saturday.

Abhinav Mukund (147, 139 balls, 17 fours, 2 sixes) and Vijay Shankar (90, 93 balls, 7 fours, 2 sixes) pulverised the Madhya Pradesh attack to help Tamil Nadu pile up 360 for 4 on the way to a massive 211-run win in a Vijay Hazare Trophy Group C match.

The final list has been pruned from 799 players who registered their names for the auction. There are as many as 122 international players, including six players from Associate nations (five from Afghanistan and one from UAE).