Ranji Trophy 2022-23, Round 1: Youngsters Impress, Tamil Nadu Nearly Pull Off a Stunning Heist
FirstpostAs the teams now head into a little break before the second round of the Ranji Trophy gets underway from 20 December, here’s a quick recap of what happened. The first round of Ranji Trophy 2022-23 got over on Friday and India’s premier domestic tournament couldn’t have asked for a better start as there were results in 12 out of the 19 fixtures played. In Abhimanyu Easwaran’s, who is with the Indian team for Bangladesh Tests, absence, domestic giant Manoj Tiwary scored a solid fifty in the fourth innings of Bengal vs Uttar Pradesh fixture. Sudarshan oozed class on debut with 221 runs from two innings, Abhishek, one of the few top-order batters in the circuit who can bowl regularly, and effectively, continued with his consistency for Punjab, Jagadeesan was back to doing Jagadeesan things – scoring hundreds and Parag, who had a splendid Vijay Hazare season with Assam, accumulated 171 runs in the two innings he played vs Saurashtra. The Vijay Hazare Trophy saw him take 14 wickets and he broke Bengal’s back with 6/55 in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy fixture.