Ranji Trophy: Mumbai spin out Uttar Pradesh, Vinay Kumar's heroics take Karnataka to victory

Mumbai remained on course to retain their title as they outplayed Uttar Pradesh in the second innings at Mysore. Spin was a key element here as Aditya Dhumal and Vishal Dabolkar shared nine wickets between them to skittle UP out for 173 after setting them a target of 295.

Railways, who started the day with only 23 runs to get, reached the target without much ado, registering a seven-wicket win. The prolific Vinay Kumar was too much to handle for the hapless Rajasthan batsmen as Karnataka cruised to a 393-run win at Vizianagaram. Andhra got the biggest win of the day, hammering Tripura by an innings and 38 runs.

Mumbai continue their victorious march

Mumbai spun a web around Uttar Pradesh and what looked like a tight game at the end of day two ended comfortably in the favour of the Ranji Trophy giants, who secured a comfortable 121-run win. On a wicket that wasn’t batsman-friendly by any means, Suryakumar Yadav’s knocks in both innings proved to be the difference between the two sides.

In the second innings, Aditya Dhumal and Vishal Dabholkar shared nine wickets between them to bundle out Uttar Pradesh, who could only muster 173 in reply to a 295-run target.

Vinay Kumar too hot to handle once again

Karnataka skipper Vinay Kumar recently completed 400 wickets in First-Class cricket and he was in no mood to stop as he, along with the consistent Sreenath Aravind ran through the Rajasthan batting order to dismiss them for just 131. Vinay Kumar bagged another five-wicket haul and Aravind scalped three as the former champions won by 393 runs.

Brief scores:

Mumbai 233 (Suryakumar Yadav 99; Kuldeep Yadav 4/46) & 286 (Suryakumar Yadav 90; Saurabh Kumar 3/48) beat Uttar Pradesh 225 (Rinku Singh 70; Tushar Deshpande 3/66, Abhishek Nayar 2/19) & 173 (Shivam Chaudhary 50; Aditya Dhumal 5/53, Vishal Dabholkar 4/43) by 121 runs

Baroda 183 (Dhiren Mistry 50; Avinash Yadav 5/55) & 239 (Deepak Hooda 98; Avinash Yadav 3/50) lost to Railways 310 (Saurabh Wakaskar 104, Atit Sheth 4/54) & 113/3 (Shivakant Shukla 56 not out; Swapnil Singh 3/39) by 7 wickets

Gujarat 302 (Manpreet Juneja 79; Chandrachant Sakure 4/65) & 324/6 (Parthiv Patel 139 not out, Samit Gohel 104,; Ishwar Pandey 4/69) drew with Madhya Pradesh 252 (Rajat Patidar 71; Rush Kalaria 4/72) &176/5 (Harpreet Singh 103 not out; Rush Kalaria 3/38)

Bengal 337 (Sudip Chaterjee 100; K Vignesh 4/70) & 196/9 (Shreevats Goswami 61; Washington Sundar 3/29) draw with Tamil Nadu 354 (Dinesh Karthik 80; Sayan Ghosh 5/123)

Assam 310 (Kunal Saikia 135; Basant Mohanty 3/18) & 164/4 (Rishav Das 68; Dhiraj Singh 2/27) draw with Odisha 459/7 (Govinda Poddar 225; Arup Das 3/60)

Karnataka 374 (Mayank Agarwal 81, KL Rahul 76; Tanveer-ul-Haq 5/82) & 298/6 declared (KL Rahul 106; Rajesh Bishnoi 4/87) beat Rajasthan 148 (Siddharth Dobal 47; Vinay Kumar 4/28) & 131 (SF Khan 39; Vinay Kumar 5/54) by 393 runs

Hyderabad 580/9 declared (Bavanaka Sandeep 203 not out; Raushan Raj 5/73) & 20/0 (Akshath Reddy 15 not out) beat Services 360 (Shamsher Yadav 104; Mohammed Siraj 3/65, Ravi Kiran 3/68) & 239 (Gahlaut Rahul Singh 59; Ravi Kiran 4/32) by 10 wickets

Kerala 342 (Rohan Prem 130; Rituraj Rajeev Singh 7/42) & 268/8 (Rohan Prem 71; Saurabh Bandekar 5/74) draw with Goa 286 (Shadab Jakati 85; Vinod Kumar 4/68) & 279/5 (Sagun Kamat 151; Iqbal Abdulla 4/66)

Haryana 502 (Rajat Paliwal 194; Parvez Rasool 3/77) draw with Jammu & Kashmir 262 (Pranav Gupta 94; Sanjay Pahal 4/66) & 249/3 (Shubham Khajuria 110 not out; Mohit Sharma 3/21)

Tripura 171 (Bunty Roy 34; P Vijaykumar 4/56) & 315 (Yashpal Singh 59; P Vijaykumar 4/84) lost to Andhra 524/6 (Hanuma Vihari 233 not out; Gurinder Singh 4/166) by an innings and 38 runs

Chhatisgarh 238 (Amandeep Khare 85; Bipul Sharma 3/52) & 309/9 (Abhimanyu Chauhan 109; Gurvinder Singh 3/64) draw with Himachal Pradesh 314 (Bipul Sharma 86; Sumit Ruikar 7/112) & 139/7 (Rishi Dhawan 41 not out; Ajay Mandal 3/51)