Ranji Trophy 2012-13

[Trundler27]

another video of him.

ur da man! Great videos of such an obscure talent :) More importantly both wicket taking deliveries showcase a different skill set. Video 1 had a ball coming steeply into the lefty and the second video showed him bowling an away going delivery to the lefty... this is truly showing that he can 'swing the ball both ways' :thumbs_up:

[Cevno]

UP went out so we won't be seeing him in telecast this season sadly. Wanted to see him. Guess there are other good bowlers still left though.

[CG]

Soumik Chatterjee :hatsoff:

[rkt.india]

Dhawal Kulkarni's fastest was 138, average 132.

[Raghav_12]

Yet another century by Jiwanjot Singh.. though Punjab should be careful about any collapse. They have a fair disctance to cover yet, to take first innings lead.

[Raghav_12]

Services, Mumbai, Saurashtra are more or less confirmed for semi-finals. Punjab is likely to be fourth team. Would have loved to see UP in SF though.

[rkt.india]

Pandey breathes life into underwhelming season

Karnataka's Manish Pandey walks back to the pavilion, Saurashtra v Karnataka, quarter-final, Ranji Trophy 2012-13, Rajkot, January 8, 2013 Once Manish Pandey entered the dressing room, he found the seat in the farthest corner, plopped down and covered his face with his gloves Ž© ESPNcricinfo Ltd Enlarge Related Links Report : Pandey ton keeps game open Players/Officials: Manish Pandey Matches: Saurashtra v Karnataka at Rajkot Series/Tournaments: Ranji Trophy | Indian Domestic Season Teams: India After being dismissed for a valiant 177 in Karnataka's failed bid to overhaul Saurashtra's first-innings score in Rajkot, Manish Pandey was drained. His wicket ended the innings and play for the day as well. He barely acknowledged the appreciative words and pats on the back from his team-mates as he negotiated the narrow passage behind the sightscreen that leads to the makeshift dressing rooms of the Saurashtra University ground. Once he entered the dressing room, he found the seat in the farthest corner, plopped down and covered his face with his gloves. He sat in that pose for several minutes, and needed plenty more time to recover from his audacious effort to haul Karnataka past Saurashtra's 469 despite a middle-order failure. It's not a tiredness he has experienced often in what has been a lean season for him. In first-class cricket, when Pandey is in form, he scores briskly with a series of easy-on-the-eye conventional strokes. Today was no different, as he made plenty of runs with fluid drives down the ground, and didn't have to resort to any of those flat-batted slogs that pepper his Twenty20 batting, though his 177 needed only 228 deliveries. And as he has shown several times, most famously in the 2009-10 Ranji final, he is unfazed by the occasion - an away knockout game, with his team having lost five wickets and more than 250 runs in the arrears - and didn't retreat into a defensive shell. The boundaries didn't stop from Pandey's bat all day. "If you see, in the games that he hasn't got runs, he hasn't played freely and hasn't played his natural game," Stuart Binny, the Karnataka captain, said. "That's the only way a guy who hits the ball can score runs. Basically play smart cricket - play big shots and time the ball well. He plays his best cricket when he plays positively." There was no doubting Pandey's relief at the end of a season-long wait for a hundred, but not with the 73-run advantage Saurashtra hold. "It feels great. It is a good match," he said after the day's play. "Probably if we would've got the lead at least probably if another one had a partnership with me, someone pushing a little more, we might have gone through and this would have been a very happy hundred than a not-so-happy one because of the situation we are in." Assessing the innings, he said: "I think I went pretty well. I took my chances where I had to take my chances and it happened. Getting 177 runs in one-day shows that I was playing positively and that's what I was looking forward to." Pandey thought his team-mates motivated him in a unique manner to get a big score. "One great thing that happened was my team-mates didn't cheer for my half-century, they didn't let me know I had got a fifty [and the scoreboard at the ground doesn't display the batsmen's scores]. I was thinking about it [he has four half-centuries this season, but no hundreds], and it helped me a little." The lack of hundreds shows just how far Pandey has fallen in the race for a national berth. It's nearly four years since he first hit the spotlight with an IPL hundred, and three since his chart-topping breakthrough first-class season. There were 600-plus runs in the next Ranji season as well, but a hernia operation hurt his chances last year, and his patchy form over the past few months means his name doesn't crop up when candidates for an India spot are discussed. The typical progress for a promising batsman in the national team is to get a look in in a couple of Twenty20 games, success in which leads to the ODI side before more runs earns a Test spot. It hasn't helped Pandey's cause that he had a horror IPL in 2012, even losing his place in the Pune Warriors side, something almost unheard of in a competition where upcoming Indian batting talent is hugely sought after. The national selector Rajinder Hans was on hand to watch Pandey take apart the Saurashtra bowling in Rajkot, but unless these sort of performances are produced on a more regular basis, Pandey will find it hard to jump the queue for a middle-order place.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2012/content/current/story/600191.html

[saneindian]

First ball after lunch. Loud lbw appeal as Mandeep Singh fails to take a big stride forward off Shahbaz Nadeem. But the umpire is unmoved. As are Punjab captain Harbhajan Singh and national selector Roger Binny who have been involved in a discussion for well over half an hour.

Finally selectors talking to Bhajji. Good to see. They also talked to Sehwag before dropping him and now discussion with Bhajji, hopefully on what he needs to do for a comeback ores wether he still figures in their future plans. Good to see senior players being spoken to by the selectors.

[Number]

Pujara scored his runs at a s/r of 75 in the first innings. Now playing at 82 off 97 balls.

[JaFanatic]

pujara for saurashtra is like sachin for india!

[express bowling]

Dhawal bowled with effort, hit the deck hard and extracted life from an ordinary pitch. Well done.

[rkt.india]

Aakash Chopra ‏@cricketaakash The team that doesn't get the BCCI grant & doesn't even have a physio travelling with d team has made it to Ranji Semis. Well done, Services

[JaFanatic]

Dhawal bowled with effort' date=' hit the deck hard and extracted life from an ordinary pitch. Well done.[/quote'] are you watching on tv? if not can you share the link:icflove:

[JaFanatic]

services:hatsoff:

[Lord]

:hatsoff: to Services but very poor from BCCI.a physio should be provided atleast

[India-KXIP fan]

Mandeep 50 and still going :clap:

[Raghav_12]

Pujara is going after poor Karnataka bowlers.. 149 off 179...:--D Good to see Pujara playing domestic with an intent. Players who suffer cold while having an option of playing domestic should learn lesson.

[JaFanatic]

Pujara is going after poor Karnataka bowlers.. 149 off 179...:--D Good to see Pujara playing domestic with an intent. Players who suffer cold while having an option of playing domestic should learn lesson.

:hysterical::hysterical:

[Lord]

2.35pm - Hundred for Taruwar Kohli Says Amol Karhadkar: "And Taruwal Kohli - playing his first game of the season - sweeps Nadeem behind square leg for a boundary to raise his hundred. It has been a real grind for him. 103 not out, 295b, 12x4. Punjab 338 for 2

I actually thought he was the better Kohli in U19 WC:giggle: dissapointed so far,but still young,hope this can kickstart his career

[King Tendulkar]

Pujara is going after poor Karnataka bowlers.. 149 off 179...:--D Good to see Pujara playing domestic with an intent. Players who suffer cold while having an option of playing domestic should learn lesson.

loves scoring runs, greedy for runs.