Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Round 5 Day 1 Highlights: Mohammed Shami Bowls After 360 Days As Bengal Hit 228 Against MP

India pacer Mohammed Shami will make his competitive cricket return in Bengal’s Ranji Trophy 2024-25 match against Madhya Pradesh at the Holkar Stadium in Indore on November 13.

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Apart from Mohammed Shami's Bengal return, other notable matches in today's line-up include -

• Services vs Mumbai

• Vidarbha vs Gujarat

• UP vs Karnataka

• Haryana vs Kerala

Maharashtra have won the toss and have opted to bat.

Odisha (Playing XI): Swastik Samal, Sandeep Pattnaik, Govinda Poddar(c), Kartik Biswal, Aasirwad Swain(w), Shantanu Mishra, Rajesh Dhuper, Suryakant Pradhan, Sunil Roul, Sumit Sharma, Tarani Sa

Maharashtra (Playing XI): Sachin Dhas, Ankit Bawne(c), Harshal Kate, Yash Kshirsagar, Satyajeet Bachhav, Saurabh Nawale(w), Hitesh Walunj, Rajneesh Gurbani, Prashant Solanki, Arshin Kulkarni, Ramakrishna Ghosh.

Madhya Pradesh have won the toss and have opted to field first against Bengal at the Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore.

Teams:

Bengal (Playing XI): Shuvam Dey, Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Anustup Majumdar(c), Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Kaif, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Writtick Chatterjee, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Shami, Rohit Kumar

Madhya Pradesh (Playing XI): Himanshu Mantri(w), Rajat Patidar, Shubham Sharma(c), Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Venkatesh Iyer, Subhranshu Senapati, Aryan Pandey, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya, Anubhav Agarwal, Kulwant Khejroliya

Chandigarh Vs Saurashtra:

Chandigarh won the toss and have opted to field against Saurashtra at the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, Chandigarh.

Saurashtra (Playing XI): Vishvaraj Jadeja, Harvik Desai(w), Chirag Jani, Sheldon Jackson, Arpit Vasavada, Prerak Mankad, Hiten Kanbi, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jaydev Unadkat(c), Tarang Gohel, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya

Chandigarh (Playing XI): Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Manan Vohra(c), Ankit Kaushik, Raj Bawa, Mayank Sidhu(w), Aayush Sikka, Jagjit Singh, Vishu Kashyap, Nishunk Birla, Rohit Dhanda

Chhattisgarh have won the toss and have opted to field.

Assam (Playing XI): Parvej Musaraf, Rishav Das, Sibsankar Roy, Denish Das(c), Sumit Ghadigaonkar(w), Swarupam Purkayastha, Mukhtar Hussain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Darshan Rajbongshi, Rahul Singh, Ruhinandan Pegu

Chhattisgarh (Playing XI): Bhupen Lalwani, Aayush Pandey, Anuj Tiwary, Sanjeet Desai, Amandeep Khare(c), Eknath Kerkar(w), Ajay Jadav Mandal, Vashudev Bareth, Ravi Kiran, Ashish Chouhan, Shubham Agarwal.

Tamil Nadu opt to bowl in this fixture.

Tamil Nadu (Playing XI): N Jagadeesan(w/c), Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Vijay Shankar, Andre Siddarth C, Shahrukh Khan, S Ajith Ram, Lakshay Jain S, Mohamed Ali, Sonu Yadav, Gurjapneet Singh, Pranav Ragavendra

Railways (Playing XI): Pratham Singh(c), Vivek Singh, Suraj Ahuja, Mohammad Saif, Upendra Yadav(w), Shivam Chaudhary, Bhargav Merai, Yuvraj Singh, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan, Kunal Yadav.

Uttar Pradesh vs Karnataka fixture sees UP captain Aryan Juyal has won the toss and elected to bat.

Meghalaya win the toss and elect to bat.

Meghalaya (Playing XI): Bamanbha Shangpliang, Arpit Bhatewara(w), Ajay Duhan, Balchander Anirudh, Kishan Lyngdoh, Sumit Kumar, Roshan Warbah, Akash Choudhary(c), Bijon Dey, Dippu Sangma, Aryan Bora

Baroda (Playing XI): Jyotsnil Singh, Shivalik Sharma, Shashwat Rawat, Atit Sheth, Vishnu Solanki, Krunal Pandya(c), Mitesh Patel(w), Raj Limbani, Ninad Rathva, Mahesh Pithiya, Bhargav Bhatt

J&K opt to bowl in their Ranji fixture against Tripura at the Hostel Ground JKCA, Jammu.

Tripura (Playing XI): Bikramkumar Das, Jiwanjot Singh, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Sridam Paul, Mandeep Singh(c), Manisankar Murasingh, Srinivas Sharath(w), Abhijit K Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Rana Dutta, Bikramjit Debnath

Jammu and Kashmir (Playing XI): Shubham Khajuria, Ahmed Banday, Vivrant Sharma, Abdul Samad, Paras Dogra(c), Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma(w), Abid Mushtaq, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Auqib Nabi Dar, Rasikh Dar Salam

Vidarbha have won the toss and have opted to field.

Teams:

Gujarat (Playing XI): Priyank Panchal, Aarya Desai, Chintan Gaja(c), Manan Hingrajia, Umang Kumar, Jaymeet Patel, Het Patel(w), Siddharth Desai, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Vishal Jayswal, Tejas Patel

Vidarbha (Playing XI): Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Danish Malewar, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Akshay Wadkar(w/c), Harsh Dubey, Nachiket Bhute, Aditya Thakare, Akshay Wakhare, Praful Hinge

Puducherry (Playing XI): Ganga Sridhar Raju, Ajay Rohera, Aman Hakim Khan, Akash Kargave, Jay Pande, Arun Karthik(w), Ankit Sharma, Fabid Ahmed, Sagar Udeshi(c), Saurabh Yadav, Gaurav Yadav

Himachal Pradesh (Playing XI): Shubham Arora(w), Prashant Chopra, Amit Kumar, Ankit Kalsi, Akash Vasisht, Rishi Dhawan(c), Vinay Galetiya, Mukul Negi, Mayank Dagar, Vaibhav Arora, Divesh Sharma

Himachal Pradesh have won the toss and have opted to field.

Services vs Mumbai fixture has been delayed due to a wet outfield.

Hyderabad skipper Gahlaut Rahul Singh won the toss and opted to bat.

Andhra (Playing XI): Abhishek Reddy, M Hemanth Reddy, Shaik Rasheed, Hanuma Vihari(c), KV Sasikanth, Kirdant Karan Shinde, Srikar Bharat(w), Tripurana Vijay, Lalith Mohan, Yara Sandeep, Mohammad Rafi

Hyderabad (Playing XI): Tanmay Agarwal, Abhirath Reddy, Rohit Rayudu, Kodimela Himateja, Gahlaut Rahul Singh(c), Rahul Radesh(w), K Nitesh Reddy, Chama V Milind, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aniketh Reddy, Chinntla Rakshan Readdi

In the fixture between Railways and Tamil Nadu, the former are 29/2 in 12 overs. Gurjapneet Singh has taken the two wickets.

Ajinkya Rahane has won the toss and elected to bowl first in this Elite Group A fixture.

Services (Playing XI): Shubham Rohilla, Anshul Gupta, Ravi Chauhan, Rajat Paliwal(c), Varun Choudhary, Mohit Ahlawat(w), Arjun Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Amit Shukla, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia

Mumbai (Playing XI): Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ayush Mhatre, Siddhesh Lad, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Shreyas Iyer, Akash Anand(w), Shams Mulani, Shardul Thakur, M Juned Khan, Mohit Avasthi, Himanshu Veer Singh

Pondicherry are reeling at 59/7 against Himachal Pradesh whereas UP have slumped to 37/5 vs Karnataka.

Delhi wins the toss and opts to field first against Jharkhand.

Jharkhand (Playing XI): Nazim Siddiquie, Sharandeep Singh Bhatia, Utkarsh Singh, Virat Singh(c), Anukul Roy, Manishi, Kumar Kushagra(w), Aryaman Sen, Supriyo Chakraborty, Shubham Kumar Singh, Vikas Kumar

Delhi (Playing XI): Sanat Sangwan, Anuj Rawat(w), Yash Dhull, Ayush Badoni(c), Himmat Singh, Mayank Gusain, Sumit Mathur, Money Grewal, Shivam Sharma, Siddhant Sharma, Simarjeet Singh.

Uttar Pradesh are 71/1 against Karnataka whereas Jharkhand are 24/1 against Delhi. Pondicherry are all out for 85 against Himachal Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh have been bowled out for 89 in their match against Karnataka. Vasuki Koushik took five wickets (5/20). In reply, Karnataka have lost two wickets.

Bengal are 228/9 against Madhya Pradesh with Mohammed Shami and Mohammad Kaif at the crease. Shami is playing competitive cricket for the first time since the ODI World Cup 2023 Final against Australia in Ahmedabad.

• Day 1 scores at Tea

  Odisha 17/1 | Maharashtra 162 all out

  Chhattisgarh vs Assam 184/4

  Baroda 152/1 | Meghalaya 103 all out

  Jammu & Kashmir 7/1 | Tripura 165 all out

  Vidarbha vs Gujarat 177/6

  Himachal Pradesh 58/1 | Pondicherry 85 all out

  Hyderabad 180/4 vs Andhra

  Uttarakhand vs Rajasthan 232/4

  UP 89 all out | Karnataka 67/3

  Punjab vs Bihar 112/6

  Chandigarh vs Saurashtra 237/2

• PLATE GROUP

  Manipur 196/5 vs Sikkim

  Mizoram vs Nagaland 254/2

Services are 137/4 vs Mumbai at Tea after a delayed start between the two sides.

After having bowled Uttar Pradesh out cheaply, Karnataka find themselves in a spot of bother with at 94/5.

Sukhdeep Bajwa has taken three wickets as Bihar is castled out for 135 runs. However, play has been stopped due to bad light in Mohali.

Goa bowled out AP for a paltry 84 and in reply have registered a staggering 362/2. Arjun Tendulkar took 5/25 in 9 overs to dismiss Arunachal Pradesh cheaply.

The first day of the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 ended with a lot of action. Jammu and Kashmir are three wickets down for 82 in response of Tripura's 165. Services made 192/6 against Mumbai in Palam whereas Gujarat made 281/6 against Vidarbha in Nagpur. Himachal Pradesh are 147/2 in response to Pondicherry's 85. In the Hyderabad vs Andhra match, Hyderabad were 244/5 at the Stumps. Rajasthan made 362/4 against Uttarakhand in Dehradun. Karnataka bowled out Uttar Pradesh for 89 and took five wickets for just 127 runs.

Mohammed Shami bowled after a big break and he showed progress in his bowling. he completed 10 overs in the day with one maiden by giving 34 runs. Bengal were bowled out for 228 runs and Madhya Pradesh have made 103/1 on the first day. Punjab bowled out Bihar for 135 runs. Kerala made 138/2 against Haryana in Lahli when match stopped due to bad light. Saurashtra made 299/2 against Chandigarh.

The fifth round of the Ranji Trophy matches has started and the first day saw many ups and downs. Most of the teams batting first ended up scoring low. Join us tomorrow for the Day 2 live action. Until then, goodbye and goodnight!