Puneet Datey

Bhopal played a key role in making the MP team maiden Ranji trophy winner at Bengaluru on Sunday. In all, five players from Bhopal were part of the MP team. These were captain Aditya Shrivastava, Anubhav Agarwal, Puneet Datey, Araham Aqueel and Rahul Batham.

Madhya Pradesh are just one wicket away from registering an outright win over Baroda, who were struggling at 114 for nine while chasing 347 on the penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match.

Fast bowlers Anubhav Agarwal and Puneet Datey scalped three wickets apiece to help Madhya Pradesh bundle out Punjab for 219 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final match on Monday.

Luck continued to elude Chandigarh as the UT boys narrowly lost to Madhya Pradesh by 5 runs in their fourth match of the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy in Rajkot on Sunday. This was the Manan Vohra-led team’s fourth loss in as many matches.

The Ranji Trophy match between Baroda and Madhya Pradesh was evenly poised after the first day's play with the former team reduced to 31 for two at stumps in reply to the latter's modest first-innings score of 217 all out here.

Chhattisgarh continued its winning run in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Andhra by 56 runs in the Elite Group 'A' game. Asked to bat first, Chhattisgarh, who had stunned defending champions Mumbai on Saturday, crawled to 268/9 in their allotted 50 overs.

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Chhattisgarh defeated Maharashtra by 34 runs to record their fourth straight win in the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, here on Tuesday. With this victory Chhattisgarh have cemented their place in the knockouts.

Manoj Tiwary, veteran of many-a-fightback, in company of utility man Shahbaz Ahmed, kept Bengal alive as they reached 197 for five after a top-order collapse against Madhya Pradesh, on the second day of the Ranji Trophy semi-final.

In the second innings of a Ranji Trophy match, a player from defending champions Madhya Pradesh (MP) scored a century, helping them to make 257 for 5 declared. Later in the day, a bowler from MP added the scalps of two other players, finishing with a seven-wicket haul. On the third day, Vidarbha ended the match with 13 for 1, with the bowler from MP accounting for one of the batsmen.

MP coach Harvinder Singh Sodhi had jokingly said on Wednesday how they have asked their captain Harpreet Singh Bhatia to have a proper practice to toss the coin. With cold conditions and 9 am start, the toss has become vital in the ongoing Central Zone Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament.

Madhya Pradesh Ranji Trophy team captain Aditya Shrivastava on Wednesday said that the maiden title is memorable for every player of the team as it has opened the way for their future and the MP team will now be “taken seriously”.

After a couple of initial hiccups, Mumbai pulled themselves back into the game against Uttarakhand. At the Alur 2 ground, powered by Suved Parkar's unbeaten century (102, 218b, 8x4, 2x6) and his unconquered 128-run association with Sarfaraz Khan (69 n.

Gujarat lost to defending champions Madhya Pradesh in their Ranji Trophy group B encounter in Indore on Thursday. Priyank Panchal, the captain, was unbeaten on 71 overnight, but did not come out to bat owing to an injury. The rest of the lowermiddle order capitulated without much of a fight, even as the other overnight batter manan Hingrajia helped himself to a halfcentury. Chintan Gaja, whose 706 helped Gujarat bowl out MP for 312 in their first innings, was the first batter to be dismissed in the morning. He was trapped in front by Gaurav Yadav for 8. Tejas Patel hung around for 12 runs but was caught by Rajat Patidar off Puneet Datey's bowling. Southpaw Hingrajia, who made 66 off 184 balls with the help of two sixes and five boundaries, was trapped in front of the wicket by Saransh Jain leftarm spinner Kumar Kartikeya. Then, after polishing off the innings with two wickets of two balls, Kartikeya and Yadav took two wickets apiece. Datey and Anubhav Agarwal grabbed a wicket each. Only three other Gujarat

Maharashtra run machine Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a second successive hundred in as many days to lead his team to a thumping eight-wicket win over Chhattisgarh in a Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Thursday.

Madhya Pradesh needed just two deliveries to dismiss the last Baroda batsman and wrap up an easy 232-run victory on the fourth and final day of their Group A Ranji Trophy match on Friday.

Skipper Manish Pandey and opener KL Rahul shone with the bat as Karnataka defeated Chhattisgarh by 79 runs in their Elite Group A match of Vijay Hazare trophy on Wednesday.

The stage is set for an intriguing battle on the final day even though Delhi have a definite edge against Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final at the Dr Gokaraju Laila Gangaraju ACA Cricket ground in Mulapadu.

After a splendid show from their bowlers on the opening day, it was the turn of Madhya Pradesh batters, led by Shubham Sharma (102 not out), to respond strongly against Punjab on Day 2 of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final game on Tuesday.

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Promising all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer continued his sensational form with both bat and ball as Madhya Pradesh pipped Chandigarh by five runs in a high-scoring group D thriller of the Vijay Hazare Trophy National One-dayers on Sunday.

Avesh Khan took four wickets as defending champions Madhya Pradesh bowled out Railways for 274 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group D match here on Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper-batsman N Jagadeesan (94 batting) put on 115 runs for the unbroken sixth-wicket stand with V Yomahesh (44 batting) to take Tamil Nadu to 191 for 6 on the second day in Ranji Trophy Group 'C' match.

Minutes after Madhya Pradesh won the Ranji Trophy, a tweet by India cricketer Dinesh Karthik went viral.

After scripting history, four players of the MP Ranji team returned to their hometown Bhopal on Tuesday. Team skipper Aditya Shrivastava will return to the state capital on Wednesday. BDCA is to felicitate the players.

Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper-batter Himanshu Mantri hogged the limelight on the first day of their Ranji Trophy semi-final against Bengal as his unbeaten 134 steered the team to 271 for six.

Priyank Panchal hit a half-century as Gujarat posted a comfortable four-wicket win over Madhya Pradesh in a Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.