Ranji Trophy: Maharashtra defeat Chandigarh by 144 runs

Seamers Mukesh Choudhary and Ramakrishna Shekhar Ghosh took four wickets each to power Maharashtra to a 144run win over Chandigarh on the fourth day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match hereSet an imposing target of 464 after Prithvi Shaws scintillating 222run knock Chandigarh ended third days play at 129 for one Eventually they were all out for 319 in 941 overs on the final eveningIn order to make a game of it Chandigarh needed a couple of big knocks from their top batters but with the exception of opener Arjun Azad who slammed a fine 168 in 236 balls none of their players could go on to make a big hundredPlaying in only his second firstclass match this was the 24yearold Azads second successive century after his 141 against Goa on debutSkipper Manan Vohra chipped in with 58 while U19 World Cup winner Raj Bawa contributed 42 as the others failed to reach double digit scores in their second inningsChoudhary and Ghosh were the chief wickettakers for Maharashtra in Chandigarhs second innings returning figures of 434 from 19 overs and 471 from 201 oversThe outright victory helped Maharashtra bag a full six points from the match while there was nothing for the home team ChandigarhWhile the bowlers did their job on the final day a lot of credit for Maharashtras victory must go to Shaw whose third fastest double hundred in Ranji Trophy history gave his team enough runs on the board and also time to take all 10 wickets in Chandigarhs second inningsBrief scoresAt Chandigarh Maharashtra 313 all out and 3593 declared in 52 overs Prithvi Shaw 222 vs Chandigarh 209 all out in 73 overs and 319 all out in 941 overs Arjun Azad 168 Mukesh Choudhary 434 Ramakrishna Shekhar Ghosh 471At Shivamogga Karnataka 371 all out in 1101 overs Karun Nair 174 not out Shreyas Gopal 57 Arjun Tendulkar 3100 Vasuki Koushik 335 vs Goa 217 all out and 1431 in 46 overs Abhinav Tejrana not out 73 Manthan Khutkar not out 55At Rajkot Saurashtra 260 all out vs Madhya Pradesh 3559 in in 135 overs Yash Dubey 159 Saransh Jain 103 batting Jaidev Unadkat 433At Mullanpur Punjab 436 all out in 1634 overs and 150 in 7 overs vs Kerala 371 all out in 1362 overs Ahammed Imran 86 Ankit Sharma 62 Baba Aparajith 51 Krish Bhagat 452This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever