Ranji Trophy Round 7, Day 2 Round-up: Odisha's Natraj Behera shines with his unbeaten 255

Behera during his 255 knock against Haryana

Mumbai recovered with the help of Akhil Herwadkar's century and Nikhil Patil's unbeaten 82 from a dangling position to take a lead of 113 runs in the first innings at the Wankhede Stadium. Important contribution by Shreyas Iyer provided good foundation to Mumbai’s innings.

Mumbai 330/9 (Herwadkar 145, Shreyas Iyer 57, Karn Sharma 6-90) lead Railways 217 (Ghosh 67, Thakur 4-38) by 113 runs. Stumps!

Opener Natraj Behera played out an unbeaten 255 runs innings to help Odisha post a mammoth total of 529 runs in the first innings. Behara’s 255 became the second best score by an Odisha batsman in first-class cricket, and the first double century at the CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli, Rohtak.

The visitors were trailing by 491 runs at the stumps and they still have 10 wickets in the pocket.

Haryana 38/0 trail Odisha 529/6 dec (Natraj Behara 255*, Ranjit Singh 112) by 491 runs. Stumps!

After showing a promising performance with ball, Vidarbha’s batting line-up failed to light up their first innings numbers as they lost 6 wickets for the score of 202 against Rajasthan’s 216 runs.

Aditya Sarwate was the top scorer with his unbeaten 42 and opener Faiz Fazal added 40 up the order. Vidarbha now trail by 14 runs with 4 wickets remaining.

Vidarbha 202/6 (Sarvate 42*, Fazal 40, Choudhary 2-34) trail Rajasthan 216 (Pramod Yadav 67, Umesh Yadav 4-45, Wakhare 3-78) by 14 runs. Stumps!

Irfan Pathan picked up 2 quick wickets to dismantle Punjab’s innings at the very start after Baroda posted a toal of 475 in their first innings with the help of Devdhar’s 186 runs. The Indian star batman, Yuvraj Singh is unbeaten on 25 and Punjab's hopes are hinged on him.

Punjab 112/3 (Uday Kaul 47*, Irfan Pathan 2-33) trail Baroda 475 (Devdhar 186, Waghmode 96) by 363 runs. Stumps!

Sudip Chatterjee scored his fourth century of the season which enabled Bengal reach 528 for 8 at the second day against Maharashtra in Pune.

Bengal 528/8 (Chatterjee 147, Easwaran 65, Mondal 58) v Maharashtra Stumps!

Group ‘C’ table toppers, Saurashtra struggled to bowl out Himachal at a sizeable total as the visitors went on to score 551 on the flat deck of Rajkot. Prashant Chopra and Robin Bist scored centuries to extend Himachal’s total on day two. Saurashtra have started their batting and now they trail by 530 runs with 10 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.

Saurashtra 21/0 trail Himachal 551 (Prashant Chopra 187, Bist 101, Gangta 77, Unadkat 4-69) by 530 runs. Stumps!

Day two roundup of other matches in the Ranji Trophy Round Seven:

Delhi 149 (Manan Sharma 46*, Milind 45, Gambhir 4, Krishna Das 4-32, Arup Das 3-49) and 101/4 lead Assam 157 (Arun Karthick 81) by 93 runs. Stumps!

TN 174/6 (Vijay Shankar 92, Praveen Kumar 3-42) trail UP 348 (Shaukat 88, Umang Sharma 73, Raina 61, Malolan 3-51) by 174 runs. Stumps!âÂÂÂÂÂ?ÂÂÂÂÂ?

MP 187/7 (Naman Ojha 56, RP Singh 2-51) trail Gujarat 311 (Juneja 61, Rujul Bhatt 51, Datey 2-56) by 124 runs. Stumps!

Goa 81/2 trail Kerala 441 (Fernandez 109, Ahmed 106, Jagadeesh 61, Parmeswaran 2-38) by 360 runs. Stumps!

Jharkhand 296/3 (Saurabh Tiwary 94, Anand Singh 91) lead Tripura 166 (Rahul Shukla 5-40) by 130 runs. Stumps!

Hyderabad 143/0 (Akshath 89*, Agarwal 43*) trail Services 353 (Chatterjee 156, Ravi Kumar 3-62) by 210 runs. Stumps!

Video highlights of the day:

Railways’ Karn Sharma taking 6 wickets against Mumbai (Video courtesy - Indian Cricket Team Facebook page):

Watch Karn Sharma's outstanding 6-wkt haul against Mumbai for Railways at the Wankhede stadium #RanjiTrophy #domesticcricket

Posted by Indian Cricket Team on Monday, 16 November 2015