Cheteshwar Pujara continued to knock doorways of nationwide staff selectors with another century in the Ranji Trophy 2024 on Saturday. The veteran Saurashtra batter recorded his third hundred of the season in the course of the staff’s final group-stage match towards Manipur on Day 2 in Rajkot.
Pujara surprisingly batted in the no.6 place after a dismissal of staff captain Arpit Vasavada who scored 148 off 196 balls. Pujara and Prerak Mankad added 231 runs for the fifth with with each batters scoring centuries with strike charge above hundred.
Mankad top-scored with 173 off 173 balls whereas Pujara smashed 108 off simply 105 balls with the assistance of 12 fours and one six. Saurashtra declared on 529/6, to take a mammoth 387-run lead in the primary innings. Bowlers additionally shone on Day 2 to take three wickets as Manipur posted 55/3 in 28 overs earlier than stumps.
Pujara, 36, final performed a Test match for India in June 2023 however continued to impress in home cricket to draw the selector’s consideration. He is main the scoring chart for the defending champions in Ranji Trophy 2024 with 781 runs in 11 innings at a median of 78.1 with three centuries and two fifties thus far.
Meanwhile, the 41-time winners Mumbai registered a dominant win over Assam to conclude the group-stage marketing campaign on Saturday. In-form Shivam Dube recorded an unbeaten century by smashing 121* off 140 balls however Mumbai had been bowled out on simply 272 in their first innings.
But with a 188-run lead in the primary innings, Mumbai bowlers produced another sensational efficiency at Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy on Saturday. Shardul Thakur, who took six wickets in the primary innings, bagged 4 wickets for 31 in the second innings as Assam had been bowled out on simply 108 to concede an enormous defeat by an innings and 80 runs. Shardul claimed the Player of the Match award for his ten wickets in the match to finish his poor run of kind throughout codecs.
