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Hazare bundles out Bengal

MUMBAI: A five-wicket haul by Mumbai medium-pacer Swapnil Hazare triggered a Bengal collapse as the visitors were shot out for 171 on the opening day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Group `A' Elite encounter here on Friday. Mumbai was 50 for two before bad light ended the day's play.

Inserted on a bouncy, seaming wicket at the Wankhede Stadium, the Bengal innings ended at the stroke of tea with Hazare returning figures of five for 36.

Ably supporting him was Usman Malvi with three wickets.

For Bengal, No. 3 batsman Sourasish Lahiri top scored with a stubborn 49 (8x4, 1x6). Bengal hit back, sending the Mumbai openers Sahil Kukreja and Wasif Jaffer with just 13 on the board.

At Sirsa, it was Rana's day as he struck a century (121, 13x4, 1x6) to give Haryana's total some respectability (260) after it was tottering at 159 for nine against Baroda. The 101-run last wicket stand between Rana and Vashist (26 not out) was the highlight of the day's play.

Sairaj Bahutule (52 not out) and Munaf Patel (46) held the Maharashtra innings together after the side, asked to bat first, was reduced to 97 for six with debutant medium-pacer Mukesh Dewan taking three wickets. At stumps, Maharashtra was 183 for seven.

Gujarat bundled out defending champion Railways for a paltry 188 in New Delhi. Left-arm spinner Mukund Parmar (four for 41) and left-arm medium- pacer Ashraf Makda (three for 24) brought about Railway's downfall on a placid pitch.

But for a stout 81-run second-wicket partnership between opener Shankar Rao and skipper Sunjoy Bangar, Railways, which opted to bat, would have been in deeper trouble.

The scores:

Elite division:

Group `A': Tamil Nadu 20 for no loss in 5.5 overs v Karnataka, in ChennaiBengal 171 in 61 overs (S.S. Lahiri 49, Hazare five for 20) v Mumbai 50 for two in 25.1 overs, in Mumbai.

Maharashtra 183 for seven in 76 overs (S. Bahutule batting 52, M. Patel 46) v Delhi, in New Delhi.

Railways 188 in 90.1 overs (G. Shankara Rao 44, M. Parmar four for 41) v Gujarat, in New Delhi.

Group `B': Hyderabad 200 in 59 overs (Anirudh Singh 49, Kaushik Reddy 51 not out, Gagandeep Singh four for 46) v Punjab 84 for three in 27 overs, at Mohali.

Services 207 for five in 91 overs (S.S. Tomar 43, Yashpal Singh 65, Piyus Chawla three for 65) v U.P., in Lucknow.

Haryana 260 in 84.3 overs (S. Rana 121) v Baroda six for one in three overs, at Sirsa.

Plate matches: Tripura 141 for five in 79 overs (Chetan Sachdev 51) v Goa, in Margao.

Jammu and Kashmir 172 for two in 95 overs (Vikrant Taggar 73 not out, Arshad Bhat 55) v Assam, in Guwahati.

Rajasthan 240 for four (Rahul Kanwar 61, Dishant Yagnik 51 not out) v Kerala, in Jaipur.

Orissa 271 for three in 92 overs (S. Sundar Das 79, Paresh Patel 88, Subil Biswal 41 not out) v Vidarbha, in Nagpur.

Jharkhand 258 for six (Manish Vardhan 76, Ratan Kumar 50) v Madhya Pradesh, at Indore.

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