Delhi captain Ayush Badoni has made a place in the list of legends like Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir by scoring his second consecutive double century in Ranji Trophy. With his brilliant innings, Delhi has strengthened its position till stumps on the second day (October 27) in the Ranji Trophy Group C match against hosts Jharkhand. Badoni, who scored 217 against Gujarat earlier this month, scored an unbeaten 210 off 228 balls against Jharkhand.
Thanks to this inning of Badoni, Delhi declared its first innings at 515 runs for 5 wickets. Badoni made a huge partnership of 334 runs with Sumit Mathur for the sixth wicket. At the time of declaration of the innings, Mathur had scored unbeaten 150 runs on 253 balls.
In response, Jharkhand had scored 131 runs for 4 wickets by the end of the second day's play. Utkarsh Singh was at the crease after scoring 53 runs. Badoni, who has consistently performed brilliantly in first class cricket, has an average of more than 60 runs. Delhi legends Kohli and Gambhir are also included in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored double centuries in two consecutive first class innings. Badoni has become the 21st Indian batsman to achieve this feat.
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Shami took 3 wickets against Kerala
After Bengal scored 350 runs in its first innings in Mangalapuram, Kerala lost 6 wickets for 101 runs in 35 overs. For Bengal, Mohammed Shami took 3 wickets for 20 runs. In reply to Gujarat's 223 runs in the first innings in Pune, Maharashtra scored 278 runs for 9 wickets by the end of the second day's play. Saurabh Navale played an important inning of 95 runs. For Gujarat, Chintan Gaja and Siddharth Desai took 3-3 wickets.