Pune: Vishnu Solanki’s brilliant 156 coupled with Deepak Hooda’s 96 helped Baroda gain a massive 421-run lead on the penultimate day of their Round 2 Elite A Ranji Trophy 2018-19 season match against Maharashtra on Wednesday.
Maharashtra were wrapped up after adding just 15 runs to their overnight score of 253. Satyajeet Bachhav departed for 17 after he was trapped leg before to Atit Sheth. Swapnil Singh, who claimed four wickets on Tuesday and scored 79, added another in Samad Fallah (4), to cap a fine allrounder performance.
Baroda were hesitant in the start and lost opener Aditya Waghmode for seven off Fallah. However, Solanki and captain Kedar Devdhar combined to conjure a 167-run partnership for the second wicket to help Baroda to 189 when Devdhar, who was trapped by Fallah leg before.
select Brief scores:
Baroda 322 & 367/3 (Vishnu Solanki 156, Deepak Hooda 96) lead Maharashtra 268 (Swapnil Singh 5/78) by 421 runs.
Vidarbha 307 & 72/2 lead Karnataka 378 (Dega Nischal 113, BR Sharath 103; Aditya Sarwate 5/91) by one run.
Goa 468/9 Declared (Snehal Kauthankar 130 not out, Sumiran Amonkar 73, Irfan Pathan 3-69) versus Jammu and Kashmir 246/7 (Shubham Khajuria 53, Irfan Pathan 42 batting, Amogh Desai 2-23)
