The Latest Breaking News from Ranji Trophy

If Sarfaraz Khan is guaranteed of scoring a hundred (150-plus) in every game this season, it seems that Shams Mulani too is destined for a five-wicket haul in virtually every innings.

BENGALURU: Mumbai are well on course to a Ranji Trophy semifinal against Uttar Pradesh with just the formalities left to be completed against a hapless Uttarakhand in their last-eight match.

BENGALURU: Karnataka skipper Manish Pandey looked heartbroken after his team’s five-wicket loss to Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal here on Wednesday. The team’s famed batting line-up fell short and the combined experience of four of their top-order batsmen – Mayank Agarwal, Manish Pandey, Karun Nair and R Samarth…

BENGALURU: Karnataka skipper Manish Pandey looked heartbroken after his team’s five-wicket loss to Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: Reputation was Karnataka’s USP but form belonged to Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final contest. At the end of just under three days of play on Wednesday, the visitors proved the adage right that history counts for little.

KOLKATA: Just two months after Jharkhand piled up 880 runs against Nagaland at the Eden Gardens, Bengal paid them back in the same coin putting up a huge 773 for seven declared in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final match at the Just Cricket Academy ground in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

ALUR (Karnataka): Left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya ran through the top-order to reduce Punjab to 120 for five in their second innings as Madhya Pradesh continued to enjoy the upperhand in their Ranji Trophy quarter-final match on Thursday.

ALUR (Karnataka): Young Karan Sharma led from the front with a calm and composed 93 not out as Uttar Pradesh knocked out favourites Karnataka with a five-wicket win in their Ranji Trophy quarterfinals on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani's five-wicket haul was well complimented by opener Yashasvi Jaiswal's maiden hundred as the 41-time Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai put themselves in the driver's seat on the third day of their quarter-final against Uttarakhand here on Wednesday.

Cracks 252, the second highest score in Ranji knockouts by a debutant

BENGALURU: The Karnataka pace department — a work in progress — has come in for some sharp criticism over the past couple of seasons. Against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals, the pace attack was considered a grey area with Ronit More (31 matches) being the most experienced.