In the first semifinal of the Ranji Trophy, Kerala has started a strong start against Gujarat. While defending champions Mumbai are in a bad position against Vidarbha in the second match. Kerala's score at the end of the game on the second day of the match on Tuesday was 418 for 7. Mohammad Azharuddin is unbeaten on 149.
Salman Nijar contributed 52 runs for Kerala at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and captain Sachin Baby contributed 69. Here, at Vidarbha Cricket Stadium in Nagpur, Mumbai lost 7 wickets in 188 in the first innings. Akash Anand 67 and Tanush Kotian 5 runs is unbeaten. Parth Rekade took 3 wickets. While Yash Thakur got 2 wickets. The first Vidarbha team was all out for 383 in the first innings.
Semifinal-1: Kerala vs Gujarat
Captain Baby could not make a run Kerala resumed his innings from 206/4 in the morning, but on the first day, captain Sachin Baby, who was unbeaten on the first day, was dismissed without scoring a run. He returned an unbeaten by 69 runs for the first day.
After Sachin was out, the heroes of the match Mohammad Azharuddin and Salman Nijar took over. The duo shared 149 off 368 balls for the sixth wicket. The partnership was broken by Vishal Jaiswal. Here Salman was out for 52 runs.
Kerala captain Sachin Baby scored 69 runs.
Azharuddin's century crossed the score 400 Mohammad Azharuddin, who was unbeaten on the first day, was batting all day. He resumed his innings on 30 runs and returned unbeaten on 149 runs. Azharuddin's innings helped Kerala cross the 400 -run mark. Arjun Nagwaswala took 3 wickets from Gujarat.
Semifinal-2: Vidarbha Vs Mumbai
Vidarbha's team was all out for 383 in the first innings The Vidarbha team, who won the toss, started playing with a score of 305/5 in the morning. The team lost the last 5 wickets for 78 runs. Shivam Dubey took 5 wickets from Mumbai. Shams Mulani and Royst took 2-2 wickets.
Shivam Dubey took 5 wickets
Middle order of Mumbai failed, Akshay Anand's Fifty Mumbai had a bad start after Vidarbha all out for 383 runs. The team lost their first wicket for 39 runs. In such a case, opener Akash Anand scored 67 runs. Siddharth Lade scored 35 and Shardul Thakur scored 37. Parth took 3 wickets and Yash took 2 wickets.
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