Ranchi, Nov. 13: Ishank Jaggi’s superb unbeaten double century scuttled Hyderabad’s hopes to force a win against Jharkhand as the home team forced a draw scoring 387 for four in their second innings on the fourth and final day of their Ranji Tropy plate group A tie here on Saturday.
Despite losing overnight partner Saurabh Tiwari, who failed to add any to his 32, and Rajiv Kumar (7) in the first two overs of the day, Jaggi (200 n.o.) crafted a magnificent 253-run partnership with Shiv Goutam (82 not out) for the fifth wicket to frustrate Hyderabad.
The visitors used as many as eight bowlers, but failed to separate the duo, and remained satisfied with three points they secured for taking the 292-run first innings lead. Jharkhand got one point for the drawn match.
Jaggi, who has been scoring decent knocks in the last couple of years, played 333 balls and belted thirty boundaries in his unbeaten knock that enthralled the sparse crowd at the newly laid JSCA cricket stadium.
Goutam was more flamboyant hitting three sixes and nine boundaries to add to the delight of the home fans.
Scorecard
Jharkhand 1st innings: 200
Hyderabad 1st innings: 492
Jharkhand 2nd innings: Siddhartha Sinha b Lalith Mohan 22, Nemat c Ravi Teja b Lalith Mohan 6, Jaggi n.o. 200, Saurabh Tiwary c Ravi Teja b Kaneeshk Naidu 32, Rajiv Kumar lbw b Kaneeshk Naidu 7, S.P. Gautam n.o. 82.
Extras (b-22, lb-12, nb-4) 38
Total (4 wickets; 129 overs) 102
Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-30.
Bowling: Alfred Absolem 19-5-59-0, Kaneeshk Naidu 22-9-49-2, A. Lalith Mohan 47-11-134-2, Vishal Sharma 4-0-17-0, B.P. Sandeep 5-4-1-0, S.A. Quadri 21-6-58-0, D.B. Ravi Teja 10-0-35-0, G.H. Vihari 1-1-0-0.
Round-up
* Mumbai 621/8 (Rohit 200, Ajinkya Rahane 110, Iqbal Abdulla 81) and 286/1 (Omkar Gurav 127 n.o., Wasim Jaffer n.o. 104) drew with Bengal 296 (Writam Porel 71, Saurashish Lahiri 62)
* Saurashta 261 (Jaydev Shah 94; Ishwar Choudhary 4/58) and 125 (Salil Yadav 4/44) lost to Gujarat 191 (Priyank Panchal 40) and 196/8 (Ravindra Jadeja 5/59).
* Punjab 243 and 322 (Yuvraj Singh 79) lost to Karnataka 346/6 and 140 for 2 (K.B. Pawan 65).
* Assam 187 and 170 (Amol Muzumdar 79) drew with Railways 182 (Goswami 4/43) and 21/0.
* Delhi 318 (Kohli 139; Ashwin 5/94) and 209/9 decl. (Shikhar Dhawan 88, R. Ashwin 6/87) drew with Tamil Nadu 208 (Badrinath 104) and 143/3 (A. Mukund 59).
* Uttar Pradesh 403 (Chawla 79; Sahoo 4/100, Mohanty 3/37) drew with Orissa 245 and 171/9 (Sudeep Tyagi 4/61).
* Haryana 127 & 310 (Hemang Badani 79, Joginder Sharma 49) lost to Baroda 470 (Yusuf Pathan 195; Joginder 3/45).