Ranji round-up: Zaheer, Agarkar shine
Posted on Nov 03, 2009 at 21:17 | Updated Nov 03, 2009 at 21:21
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New Delhi: Ravi Inder Singh stood tall amid ruins with a gritty century as Ajit Agarkar and Zaheer Khan ripped apart the Punjab batting line up to help Mumbai reduce the hosts to 242 for nine on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Super League match in Chandigarh.
India discard Agarkar (4/41) and Zaheer (3/45), who is returning to competitive cricket after a shoulder injury, shared seven wickets among them to give the reigning champions Mumbai an edge in the contest.
It was Zaheer who started the rot when he sent back Sunny Sohal (2), who edged one to stumper V Samant.
Barring a third wicket partnership of 68 runs between Ravi Inder, who struck an impressive 104, and Uday Kaul (28), Punjab kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Ravi's fighting knock contained 17 hits to the fence and one shot over the ropes before being dismissed by Agarkar.
In Delhi versus Baroda game, opener Shikhar Dhawan (122) hit a composed unbeaten century to put Delhi in a strong position of 300 for two in their Ranji Trophy Super League Group B match.
After the cheap dismissal of skipper Aakash Chopra (21), left handed Dhawan and Guarav Chabra (65) batted beautifully as they rattled up a 134-run partnership to negate the early loss after opting to bat.
Murtuza Vohra broke the partnership when he trapped Chabra but there was no respite for Baroda bowlers as Rajat Bhatia continued the good work with Dhawan as the duo racked up an unbeaten 136-run stand for the third wicket.
At stumps, Dhawan was batting on 122 with Bhatia at solid 70 on the other end.
Dhawan's 247-ball knock included 12 boundaries while Bhatia hit seven shots to the fence in his 141-ball innings.
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