Rana, Rawat take Delhi to 318/6

New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Young guns Nitish Rana (89) andAnuj Rawat (74) continued their good form as Delhi reached 318for six against Railways...
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New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Young guns Nitish Rana (89) andAnuj Rawat (74) continued their good form as Delhi reached 318for six against Railways at stumps on day one of the RanjiTrophy group A encounter.

All rounder Mannan Sharma (68 batting) also got hissecond fifty in as many matches.

Rana and Rawat carried on from where they had left offagainst Assam in the opening encounter after Delhi's top threeGautam Gambhir (2), Unmukt Chand (11) and Dhruv Shorey (16)were out cheaply with scoreboard reading 44.

Nitish, who faced 145 balls hit 12 boundaries as heagain peppered the off-side field with cut shots and someflowing drives on the on-side.

Along with debutant Himmat Singh (45), Nitish added 109runs for the fourth wicket.

Himmat, in fact came down the track to hit off-spinnerAvinash Yadav in the second tier of the dressing room for abig six.

However Himmat missed a chance to score a debut halfcentury when he was caught behind trying to cut Avinash.

After his impressive debut, Rawat looked more assuredalongside Rana, playing both cuts and drives on the off-side.

As Nitish was looking good for his second hundred, hecame down the track to a flighted delivery from ShivakantShukla to be stumped 11 short of three figure mark.

Just like last match, the two left handers Rawat andMannan batted with ease. The low bounce of the pitch andslowness made it easy to adjust.

Rawat again showed good temperament as he faced 152balls before Anureet Singh (3/71) got him at the fag end ofthe day.

Group A Brief Scores: Delhi 318/6 (Nitish Rana 89, AnujRawat 74, Mannan Sharma 68 batting, Anureet Singh 3/71) vsRailways.

At Mysore: Assam 144 in 59.1 overs (Gokul Sharma 55;Shreyas Gopal 3/43). Karnataka 77/0 in 30 overs (RavikumarSamarth 47 batting , Mayank Agarwal 26 batting).

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad versus Uttar Pradesh. No play onday one. PTI KHS BSBS.

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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