Tanay Thyagarajan finished with 11 wickets in the match after also hitting an unbeaten half-century, as Hyderabad thrashed Andhra by 267 runs in an Elite Group B Ranji Trophy match in Mulapadu on Wednesday. Thyagarajan, who had taken five wickets in Andhra’s first innings, returned to claim six more as Andhra, set 398 to win, were dismissed for 130. In Thiruvananthapuram, veteran off-spinner Jalaj Saxena’s five-wicket haul helped Kerala beat Odisha by an innings and 36 runs in an Elite Group C game. Following on, Odisha resumed on 102/4, and Kerala needed just 23.3 overs on the fourth morning to bowl them out for 143.
He was named Player of the Match for the second game running after having won the award against Tripura last week.
Mumbai completed their second successive bonus-point win, beating Himachal Pradesh by an innings and 97 runs in an Elite Group D match at the Luhnu Cricket Ground in Bilaspur, with pacer Mohit Avasthi taking 5/44. In New Chandigarh, Aayush Pandey’s gritty 111 could not prevent Chhattisgarh from slipping to a seven-wicket defeat against Punjab. Forced to follow on, Chhattisgarh resumed on 123/3 and, on the back of Pandey’s century and some handy lower-order runs, posted 335. That left Punjab a target of just 86, which they reached in 16.5 overs, with captain Uday Saharan unbeaten on 40. Railways resumed on 305/6 in their first innings but were bowled out for 338, conceding a lead of 159, with Kukna Ajay Singh taking four wickets. Asked to bat again, they reached 176/2 by stumps as Saif (103 not out) and Eshaan Goyal (59 not out) shared an unbroken 157-run stand for the third wicket. In a Plate Group match in Dimapur, Rongsen Jonathan’s unbeaten 118 was the highlight of the final day, but Nagaland’s 516 left them 65 runs short of Mizoram’s 581/9 declared, an innings built around Chinmay Suthar’s unbeaten 400.
In Jaipur, an unbeaten century from Mohammad Saif helped Railways save their match against Rajasthan. Spinner Parth Bhut claimed eight wickets in the match and was named Player of the Match as Saurashtra took three points from their drawn Elite Group B clash against Karnataka by virtue of securing the first-innings lead.
