Indian domestic season 2013/14

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This kicks off with the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy on the 26th.  

Laxmi Ratan shukla had the potential one time to be an allrounder.....and I remember under Jadeja he debuted against Pakistan in an ODI along with otehr two newcomers...one called Sehwag as an offspin allrounder and anotehr called Gynendra pandey as a SLA allrounder...bowled a great 10 over spell on a troll swinging the ball......

Lost his way I believe in discipline etc

Shukla made his debut at the age of 17 and never got a chance after the initial failures. K Srikanth had described him as 'Kapil Dev Second'. He couldn't live up the billing and couldn't maintain his consistency at First Class level. This season he has been an inspirational captain, and stood up with the bat consistently, and always in tough situations. The bowling hasn't been as effective as the batting, but still could chip in with crucial performances like in this quarter final game.
But a bit too late now for an international comeback.......

The Ranji season has come to an end for Railways, but this has been one of their better seasons in recent times. Unlike state assotian sides, Railways, one of the 2 institutional sides in the Ranji, often work with rather limited facilities and resources. As such, their performance this season deserves added credit. Murali Kartik led them with a big heart and a strong temperament, and coach Abhay Sharma played a big part in their success. Arindam Ghosh, and wicket keeper Mahesh Rawat have been their batsmen of the season.
But the most impressive performance came from their 25 year old seamer Anureet Singh. Anureet took 44 wickets including 5 5fors, and is 2nd on the wickets table behind Rishi Dhawan. Anureet's wickets came in the tougher Group B, and came against quality batting sides like Saurashtra and Tamil Nadu. The Railways coach Abhay Sharma reckons Anureet is ready for international cricket.......
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2013-14/content/story/709453.html

msp83 wrote:Shukla made his debut at the age of 17 and never got a chance after the initial failures. K Srikanth had described him as 'Kapil Dev Second'. He couldn't live up the billing and couldn't maintain his consistency at First Class level. This season he has been an inspirational captain, and stood up with the bat consistently, and always in tough situations. The bowling hasn't been as effective as the batting, but still could chip in with crucial performances like in this quarter final game.
But a bit too late now for an international comeback.......

chris rogers, hussey,bailey......let them be the inspiration for the 30+

msp83 wrote:The Ranji season has come to an end for Railways, but this has been one of their better seasons in recent times. Unlike state assotian sides, Railways, one of the 2 institutional sides in the Ranji, often work with rather limited facilities and resources. As such, their performance this season deserves added credit. Murali Kartik led them with a big heart and a strong temperament, and coach Abhay Sharma played a big part in their success. Arindam Ghosh, and wicket keeper Mahesh Rawat have been their batsmen of the season.
But the most impressive performance came from their 25 year old seamer Anureet Singh. Anureet took 44 wickets including 5 5fors, and is 2nd on the wickets table behind Rishi Dhawan. Anureet's wickets came in the tougher Group B, and came against quality batting sides like Saurashtra and Tamil Nadu. The Railways coach Abhay Sharma reckons Anureet is ready for international cricket.......
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2013-14/content/story/709453.html

to me most imp bit here is he touches 140.
if he can be consistently in mid 130s he will sooner or later break thru

Ranji Trophy Semi Finals, day 1
At Indore's Holkar Stadium, Maharashtra skipper Rohit Motwani won the toss and put Bengal in, and the bowlers responded to the captain's call brilliantly. Samit Fallah led the way, taking 7 wickets to run through the Bengal lineup as he received good support from Anupam Sanklecha and parttime seamer Harshad Khadiwale. After they send Bengal packing in 41 overs, the Maharashtra batsmen then managed to give a good account of themselves against a better attack. Chirag Khurana made 48 and Kedar Jadhav made 40. Ankit Bawne is batting on 37, as Maharashtra went to stumps at 164-4, leading by 50.
Bad weather resulted in a first day washout at Mohali where Punjab are playing Karnataka.

Vinay's 5-fer crumbled Punjab for 270
Jiwanjot did a 74 odd....and they got two wickets of Karanatak down quite quickly

Zol failed but Maharshtra had the game in the bag already with a 340 run lead

After a first day washout, the game between Punjab and Karnataka got under way today. A full day's play could be managed as the weather behaved itself and the day had lot of action. The Punjab openers, Jiwanjot Singh and Manan Vohra both scored brisk half-centuries, Vohra making a 50 ball 51 and Jiwanjot top-scoring with 74. But Punjab lost their way from a strong position. Yuvraj Singh, batting on a well made 42, hold out to deep midwicket of a rank bad full-toss from Amit Verma and that sparked a collapse. The Karnataka skipper R Vinay Kumar, suffering from back troubles took 5 wickets to lead his side's bowling efforts. Abhimanyu Mithun bowled well without taking wickets, and Shreyas Gopal took 3 wickets though he went around the park a bit. The Punjab bowlers then came out with intent, and Manprit Goni got KL Rahul for 4 in his first over, and the usually flamboyant Mayank Agarwal was out for a 23 ball duck. Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa prevented further damage as Karnataka reached 39-2 at stumps.
When Maharashtra resumed their first innings at 164-4, they were only 50 ahead and some early wickets could have helped Bengal find their way back into the game. The Bengal skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla gave his side a fine start by dismissing his counterpart Rohit Motwani without the Maharashtra skipper or his side adding to their score. In walked Sangram Atitkar to join Ankit Bawne who looked the most comfortable of the Maharashtra lineup on a good cricket pitch. The duo then put together a fine partnership that deflated the Bengal bowlers. Just when a century looked there for the taking, Bawne played a loose shot outside off to offer a slip catch of Dinda to get out for 89. But Atitkar carried on, and he and the number 9 Anupam Sanklecha smashed the Bengal bowling around . Atitkar made a fine 168, and Sanklecha enjoyed himself with 52. Maharashtra were eventually bowled out for 455, a first innings lead of 341. But Bengal's troubles were not over for the day, Samad Fallah dismissed Kaushik Ghosh with the penultimate ball of the day as they closed the day at 16-1.

Uthappa batting well again after match winning hundred in QF.
the Punjab-Karnataka game is interesting inspite of loss of a day

Sami Finals, day 3
Maharashtra are through to their first Ranji final in 21 years. Having conceded a massive 341 run first innings lead, Bengal needed their batsmen to produce a better show. But the Maharashtra seamers, Samad Fallah, Anupam Sanklecha and Domnic Joseph found life on a track where the Bengal bowlers struggled. They reduced Bengal to 188-7, but India reserve wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha led a counterattack in the company of the lower order, and his defiant, unbeaten 108 helped Bengal avoid an innings only just. Maharashtra needed 8 to win, and they scored the runs in 2 overs. Fallah took 3 wickets to register a 10for in the game, and Sanklecha and Joseph also took 3 wickets each. Fallah has gone pass the 200 wicket mark in First Class cricket in the course of the game.
After negotiating some tough times from a fired up Punjab bowling unit in the final session yesterday, the Karnataka batsmen found life easier today. There were contributions throughout, as they reached 351-5 at close, leading by 81. Karun Nair is unbeaten on 107 and Amit Verma, playing his first game of the season, is batting on 65. The Punjab bowlers had a few decisions not going their way, just like it happened to the Karnataka bowlers yesterday, but unlike the Punjab batsmen, the Karnataka batsmen took full advantage. Besides Nair and Verma, Manish Pandey made 65, CM Gautam made a busy 48 and Robin Uthappa weathered the early storms to post 47. Harbhajan Singh took 2 wickets for Punjab.

Semi Finals, day 4
Bad light took out a large chunk of the day's play as Karnataka continued to dominate Punjab. Overnight batsmen, Karun Nair went pass 150, and his partner Amit Verma went pass his hundred in whatever little play that happened. When play was eventually called off, Karnataka were 447-5 with Nair on 151 and Verma on 114 at the crease. The reports on the weather front aren't great for tomorrow either, so a Maharashtra Karnataka final is pretty much on the card.

As rain washed out the 5th day's play, Karnataka are through to the Ranji final due to their decisive first innings lead over Punjab.

Zol has been barred from playing the Ranji final and instead asked to play in some U-19 tournament.

That significantly weakens Maharashtra who has only one international quality star really

Zol should have been allowed to play the Ranji final. This is not sending the right message to the youngster.

Zol has been allowed to play the final.....and strangely he was asked to skip the finla not for an u-19 game but merely a prepartory camp.

Sensible at last from the BCCI.

what have pitches and scores been like this year? Flat? batter friendly, or helping spin?..

Better than last year over all.

Ranji final....mahrashtra are OK placed at 270-5...Bawne helps them recover...Zol the star fails an misses an opportunity to impress selectors.

karnataka use 9 bowlers...only Uthappa and the WK do not bowl

wtf! 9 bowlers, when a side are 270-5.....

Maharashtre ended the day one of the Ranji final against Karnataka at 272-5. Ankit Bhawne is unbeaten on 89 with Sangram Atitkar giving him company on 29. Opener Chirag Khurana made a patient 64 that helped them recover from the early loss of Harshad Khadiwale and Vijay Zol. Kedar Jadhav got a start but was out for 37 due to an umpiring error.

Besides Uthappa and wicketkeeper Gautam, KL Rahul also didn't bowl, so its 8 bowlers that Karnataka used. And one of the parttimers, Karun Nair got the important wicket of Khurana.

The 2nd day of the Ranji Trophy final saw almost everything going Karnataka's way. Resuming on 272-5, Maharashtra lost their batting mainstay Ankit Bawne for his overnight score of 89. Sangram Atitkar went on to score 50, but the Karnataka seamers ran through the lower order to bowl Maharashtra out for 305. Skipper Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun and S Aravind all took 3 wickets each. After Maharashtra lost their last 5 for only 33, they then watched Karnataka piling up 230 without loss in the rest of the day. KL Rahul is batting on 94 and Ganesh Satish on 117. The only thing that went against Karnataka today was Robin Uthappa getting injured and forced to retire hurt on 10.

The diffrence in the class has getting widened as the game progresses.....Karantaka has been a consistent side all throuhg the season..

and Maharashtra needed someone like Zol to produce an electrifying inning of life-time to match Karantaka.

the Ranji final has 6 days to force a outright result if i understand the rules correctly.

So Zol has one more opportunity to produce a super inning

6 days?!??!

I think the 6th day is there if there is no first innings lead decided by day 5.
Maharashtra will have to dome something dramatic to comeback into this game. Taking all the catches that come their way could be a start. They missed as many as5 chances today.

msp83 wrote:I think the 6th day is there if there is no first innings lead decided by day 5.
Maharashtra will have to dome something dramatic to comeback into this game. Taking all the catches that come their way could be a start. They missed as many as5 chances today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranji_Trophy

nope...it seems as I thought 6th day is to get an outright result

Maharashtra had a better outing on day 3 of the Ranji finals. They took 7 for 244 in the day's play. But the huge early advantage they gave away on the 2nd day meant they will have to continue to play catch up for the rest of the game. Ganesh Satish was out without adding to 117 overnight, but KL Rahul completed his ton and was out for 131, going pass a thousand runs for the season mark in the process. Robin Uthappa who had retired hurt yesterday came out and scored 72, and Manish Pandey, Karun Nair and Amit Verma all got starts but couldn't go on. Karnataka ended the day at 474-7 with Shreyas Gopal and skipper R Vinay Kumar at the crease. Samad Fallah took 3 wickets for Maharashtra.

Ranji Final, day 4 eventually belonged to Karnataka. However, their defensive approach almost gave Maharashtra an opening, but Maharashtra batsmen self-destructed in the final session to hand the control back to Karnataka.
Karnataka were bowled out for 515 in their first innings, stretching their first innings advantage to 210. Then captain R Vinay Kumar took out the Maharashtra openers, Harshad Khadiwale for 15 and Vijay Zol for 31 to reduce them to 51-2. Ankit Bawne, the other exciting young prospect from Maharashtra along with Zol, joined the season's top scorer Kedar Jadhav. Karnataka send most of their fielders to the deep. Jadhav, who otherwise scores a high percentage of his runs through boundaries just put his head down and took the available singles and twos regularly, and Bawne followed his senior partner's example. But after reaching his 50, Bawne tried to charge Shreyas Gopal and was stumped for 61. Sangram Atitkar played an ill-advised slog sweep and found the only fielder on the leg side in the circle, Chirag Khurana hit a Vinay full-toss to cover, Jadhav, after scoring 112 of 135 with ease repeated Khurana's mistake, and Maharashtra went to stumps at 272-6, leading Karnataka by 62. Vinay took 4 wickets and Gopal took the other 2.

vinay does take a lot of ranji wickets
Zol fails.
Maharashtra will duly lose tomm i believe

Vinay has gone pass the 300 wicket mark in FC cricket. Good FC bowler, not good enough at international level.

msp83 wrote:Vinay has gone pass the 300 wicket mark in FC cricket. Good FC bowler, not good enough at international level.

Vinay is a classical Indian swing bowler........the like of Madanlal, Sandhu, Binny, prabhakar had awesome FC records.

but without pace and reverse and bounce only swing they are rather limited at international level ...unless they can bat and play as allrounders.
Prabhakar was a good example who held an internationla slot on merit opening the batting and averaging 35ish with the bat...who career was cut short for reasons related to politics

Karnataka are the Ranji Champions for the 2013-14 season. They defeated Maharashtra by 7 wickets to take their 7th Ranji title. Maharashtra's last 4 wickets added 94 more to their overnight 272. Shreyas Gopal took 2 wickets today to finish with 4 in the innings and Abhimanyu Mithun took the other 2. Karnataka openers Robin Uthappa and KL Rahul put on 65 for the first wicket in the chase, and though they both as well as Amit Verma were dismissed subsequently, Karun Nair and Manish Pandey took them over the line without much discomfort.
Karnataka are winning the title after 15 years.

An interesting read on Karnataka's win, their team culture and the involvement of former India players.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2013-14/content/story/715209.html

The Rest of India squad for Irani Cup is announced. Harbhajan Singh will lead the side. Gautam Gambhir makes the cut, so does Parwez Rasool. Kedar Jadhav and Ankit Bawne are also in there.
Full Squad.
Squad Harbhajan Singh (capt.), Jiwanjot Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Baba Aparajith, Kedar Jadhav, Ankit Bawne, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra, Pankaj Singh, Ashok
Dinda, Varun Aaron, Parvez Rasool, Anureet Singh, Natraj Behera, Mandeep Singh.

Some horrendous nonselections it has to be said. The season's highest wickettaker, Himachal Pradesh all-rounder Rishi Dhawan is missing. Jharkhand's Saurabh Tiwary who scored over 850 runs in Group A is missing. Mahesh Rawat, the Railways wicketkeeper who had a fabulous season has missed out for Dinesh Karthik who had a very inconsistent season with bat and gloves. Highly rated national prospect, Punjab's Sandeep Sharma is missing despite a good season. Maharashtra's Harshad Khadiwale one of only 3 players to have scored over 1000 runs in the season is not picked, and the move becomes surprising when considering that Odisha's Natraj Bahera is in despite scoring half the runs.

Perhaps they didn't pick Dhawan because they wouldn't want a head to head between Roger Binny's son and Rishi that might embarrass the national selectors!. Can't see any other logic to it whatsoever.

msp83 wrote:The Rest of India squad for Irani Cup is announced. Harbhajan Singh will lead the side. Gautam Gambhir makes the cut, so does Parwez Rasool. Kedar Jadhav and Ankit Bawne are also in there.
Full Squad.
Squad Harbhajan Singh (capt.), Jiwanjot Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Baba Aparajith, Kedar Jadhav, Ankit Bawne, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra, Pankaj Singh, Ashok
Dinda, Varun Aaron, Parvez Rasool, Anureet Singh, Natraj Behera, Mandeep Singh.

the underlined are non deserving candidates.
good to see Pankaj get a break in an india-A equivalent game

Irani Trophy started.....Binny and Vinay are running throuhg the ROI side

must be an awful batting unit then..

Binny 3-35 and an unbeaten 115 off only 107 balls...against the best of the Rest of India

after talking the talk...pankaj singh walks the walk and take a 6-fer in an other wise shambolic looking scorecard for the ROI bolwers....espeically note Bhajji and Mishra neitehr picked wickets nor could contain

well Binny is in india's t20 world cup squad now...but can't see him getting any game time..

CF wrote:well Binny is in india's t20 world cup squad now...but can't see him getting any game time..

there might be BIG BIG changes before the world cup....we might have a new captain

Karnataka win the Irani Trophy in style. They thumped Rest of India by an innings and 221 runs. RoI were bowled out for 201 in their first innings, with Dinesh Karthik the only batsman to make a substantial contribution with 91. Skipper Vinay Kumar took 6 wickets and Stuart Binny took 3.
Karnataka, led by hundreds from Binny (122) and CM Gautam (122), and half-centuries from Ganesh Satish (84) and Karun Nair (92) piled up 606 in their first innings. Pankaj Singh took 6 wickets, the rest of them, including Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra couldn't make any impact.
RoI were then bowled out for 183 in their 2nd innings, Baba Aprajith the only batsman with a meaningful contribution, After coming in at the fall of the first wicket, he was 8th out for 66. Vinay took 4 more in the 2nd innings to finish with 10 in the match, and young legspinning all-rounder Shreyas Gopal took 5 for 35, including a hat trick to finish off the RoI 2nd innings.
Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh both failed to make any mark in the game.

Has someone seen this 20 year old kid Gopal....leggie with 27 FC wickets in 6 games....has been picking 2nd inning wickets consistently in the last 5 games I saw his stats.

with Bhajji and Mishra failing in the same game.....Gopal's spin stands out atleast on paper

he needs to do something in the first innings as well though...can he contain?