{"id":807348,"date":"2026-10-19T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807348\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:38:33","slug":"ranji-trophy-uday-saharan-century-powers-punjab-shubman-gill-falls-cheaply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807348\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranji Trophy: Uday Saharan Century Powers Punjab; Shubman Gill Falls Cheaply"},"content":{"rendered":"

Punjab captain Uday Saharan’s magnificent unbeaten century anchored his team’s innings on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy match against Chhattisgarh, overshadowing India skipper Shubman Gill’s brief return to domestic cricket.<\/p>\n

\"Shubman<\/p>\n

IMAGE: Shubman Gill could manage just one run off five balls before Chhattisgarh spinner Ajay Mandal clean-bowled him on Day 1 of Punjab’s Ranji Trophy match at Mullanpur on Sunday. Photograph: ANI Photo<\/p>\n

Key Points<\/p>\n

Punjab captain Uday Saharan scored an unbeaten 106 runs on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy match against Chhattisgarh.
\nIndia skipper Shubman Gill was dismissed for just one run by left-arm spinner Ajay Mandal.
\nSaharan formed crucial partnerships, including a 130-run stand with Prabhsimran Singh (62) and an unbeaten 71-run stand with Salil Arora (38 batting).
\nIn another Ranji Trophy fixture, Manvanth Kumar’s unbeaten 86 helped Karnataka recover to 281 for eight against Saurashtra.<\/p>\n

India skipper Shubman Gill’s return to domestic cricket lasted only five balls, but Punjab captain Uday Saharan’s unbeaten 106 led the hosts to 269 for four against Chhattisgarh on Day 1 of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match at Mullanpur on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Opting to bat first, Punjab made a solid beginning reaching 55 for no loss through openers Vihaan Malhotra and Harnoor Singh.<\/p>\n

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But both Malhotra and Harnoor departed in the space of 10 runs, as Punjab slipped to 65 for two.<\/p>\n

However, an even bigger blow was waiting for them. Gill, who is playing the red ball games ahead of the tour of New Zealand, could not negate left-arm spinner Ajay Mandal.<\/p>\n

Mandal’s delivery that came in with the arm beat the forward defence of Gill (1) to rearrange his stumps. Punjab were 68 for three then.<\/p>\n

Saharan’s Resilient Century For Punjab<\/p>\n

But they found a saviour in Saharan, who played a mature knock of 179 balls, including 13 fours.<\/p>\n

He found an able ally in Prabhsimran Singh (62, 133b) and the duo milked 130 runs for the fourth wicket to take Punjab close to 200.<\/p>\n

Prabhsimran fell to spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, but Saharan stitched a 71-run stand for the unbeaten fifth wicket with Salil Arora (38 batting) to see the remainder of the day off.<\/p>\n

Karnataka’s Recovery Against Saurashtra<\/p>\n

Manvanth Kumar, playing in his second first-class game, made an unbeaten 86 as Karnataka recovered from early blows to reach 281 for eight against long-time nemesis Saurashtra at Alur.<\/p>\n

Karnataka were 194 for eight at one stage, but Manvanth and Abhilash Shetty (6 batting) added 81 runs for the ninth wicket to rescue them from a full-blown implosion.<\/p>\n

Brief scores:<\/p>\n

At Mullanpur: Punjab: 269\/4 in 90 overs (Uday Saharan (106 batting, Prabhsimran Singh 61, Salil Arora 38 batting; Ajay Mandal 2\/60) vs Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n

At Alur: Karnataka: 281\/8 in 86 overs (Manvanth Kumar 86 batting, KV Aneesh 59, Karun Nair 46, Mayank Agarwal 42; Jaydev Unadkat 3\/51, Parth Bhut 3\/73) vs Saurashtra.<\/p>\n

At Guwahati: Assam: 228\/6 in 86 overs (Sibasankar Roy 54, Sumit Ghadigaonkar 49, Rishav Das 37; Sandip Sarkar 3\/64) vs Tripura.<\/p>\n

At Vijayawada: Hyderabad: 275 all out in 86 overs (Abhirath Reddy 67, Rahul Radesh 58 not out, Tanmay Agarwal 42; Tripurana Vijay 4\/90, Saurabh Kumar 3\/75, Lalith Mohan 3\/78) vs Andhra: 9\/0 in 2 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Punjab captain Uday Saharan’s magnificent unbeaten century anchored his team’s innings on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[264956,205937,264955,1721,308,68360,260548,148923,30575,195255,48672,7054,101,264954,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ajay-mandal","tag-chhattisgarh","tag-chhattisgarh-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-karnataka","tag-mullanpur","tag-prabhsimran-singh","tag-punjab","tag-punjab-cricket","tag-ranji-trophy","tag-shubman-gill","tag-sports","tag-uday-saharan","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}