No second innings for Virat Kohli as Delhi demolish Railways

Shivam Sharma claimed five wickets as Delhi ended their Ranji Trophy campaign with a bonus point over the RailwaysResuming the day at 334 runs for seven wickets Delhi ended up at 374 runs in the first essay to secure a 133run lead Railways batsmen played rash shots that boosted the match to end earlyThey were all out for 114 in 304 overs in the afternoon session to suffer an innings defeat handing Delhi seven points It also denied the crowd a chance to see batting icon Virat Kohli in action for a second time in this matchFor Delhi Sumit Mathur 86 who was batting on 78 overnight could not reach the threefigure mark as Kohlis conqueror on day two Himanshu Sangwan ended with four wicketsIt was Delhis second win of the season but they were out of the knockout race from Elite Group D with Saurashtra and Tamil Nadu qualified with 25 points Delhi logged 21 pointsAlso ReadGujarat Titans bring Season Two of Junior Titans to Bharuch initiative aims to build a Culture of Sports among ChildrenThe Ranji Trophy match between Delhi and Railways attracted national attention because of Virat Kohlis return to domestic cricket The spectators were eager to see Virat Kohli bat in the second inningsas Railways batters selfdestructed on a slow and low surfaceThe former India captain himself would not have minded another hit in the middle after managing six off 15 balls on day two It was a procession after Delhi leftarm pacer Siddhant Sharma trapped Suraj Ahuja with an inswingerHis opening partner Vivek Singh 12 hit a crisp cover drive off Siddhant before an overaggressive approach got the better of him as he stepped out to offie Shivam only to be caught at backward pointA little later Mohammed Saif 31 off 31 balls also charged down the wicket against Shivam but could not get past the midon fielderSidhant removed Suraj Ahuja with an inswinger Even Delhi were not expecting the game to end this early but the opposition batters had other plansNavdeep Saini castled Bhargav Merai to make it 57 for four before Railways star batter in the first innings Upendra Yadav 19 perished off an incoming ball from Money GrewalThe game was over when number 10 Kunal Yadav was dismissed by Delhi skipper Ayush Badoni as number 11 Anchit Yadav did not come out to batVirat Kohli who returned to domestic cricket after 13 years spent a long time in the dressing room with his teammates shook hands and posed for picturesThe stalwart also entered into Railways dressing room to meet the oppositionSaurashtra qualified for the knockouts with an innings and 144run win over Assam in RajkotFollowing on Assam were bowled out for 166 in their second innings after managing 164 in their first essay Saurashtra batted the opposition out of the game by scoring 474 in their first inningsResuming their second innings at 671 Assam could only bat for 364 overs with leftarm spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja taking a five wicket haul lifting his match tally to nineSaurashtra ended with 25 points from seven games after their third bonus point win on the trotRavindra Jadeja did not need to bowl in the game as Dharmendrasinh and Co ran through Assam on a turnerJharkhand registered their second win of the season after winning over Tamil Nadu by 44 runs on day three Utkarsh Singh was honoured with the Man of the Match award for his stunning performances in the matchHe took 6 wickets for 30 runs in the first innings before picking one in the second essayUtkarsh also topscored in Jharkhands second innings with 35 valuable runs in a lowscoring matchBrief scores Delhi 374 in 1064 overs beat Railways 241 and 114 all out in 305 overs Mohammed Saidf31 Shivam Sharma 533 by innings and 19 runsIn Rajkot Saurashtra 474 in 117 overs Assam 164 all out and 166 in 364 overs Sumit Ghadigaonkar 40 Dharmendra Sinh Jadeja 550 Saurashtra won by an innings and 144 runsIn Jamshedpur Jharkhand 185 and 154 Tamil Nadu was 106 all out and 189 all out in 554 overs Mohamed Ali 44 Manishi 449 Jharkhand won by 44 runsWith PTI Inputs