Mohali: Jeevanjot Singh, the boy with the golden touch, came good once again when he followed his brilliant double hundred against Hyderabad on debut by notching up another unbeaten ton (102) against Bengal.
He became the first Indian Batsman to have scored a double ton on debut to follow it by a century in the following match.
In company of Mayank Sidana unbeaten (107) he posted an unbroken stand of 206 for the 2nd wicket to put Punjab in the driver’s seat. Punjab finished the day on 229 for 01 in 70 overs.
Jeevanjot reached his hundred off 201 balls studded with 10 boundaries while Mayank Sidana reached his coveted century (107) not out off 190 balls studded with 17 boundaries.
Lakshmi Rattan Shukla scalped 1for 35 for Bengal.
In the morning Bengal starting at 280 for 7 overnight were shot out for 326 in 108 overs. Right arm leg spinner Rahul Sharma scalped all the three victims today and returned of 4 for 53.
Wriddhiman Saha was unlucky to miss his ton by two runs when in his bid to farm the bowling, he drove Rahul Sharma uppishly in cover region to bring down curtains on Bengal innings. Wriddhiman Saha’s vigil at the crease for 286 minutes was studded with 10 boundaries and one six.
Brief Scores:
Bengal: 326 all out in 108 overs (Wriddhiman Saha 98, Lakshmi Rattan Shukla 62, Rahul Sharma 4 for 53, Manpreet Gony 2 for 54 , Sandeep Sharma 2 for 53)
Punjab 1st innings: 229 for 1 in 70 overs (Jeevanjot Singh 102 not out, Mayank Sidana 107 not out, Lakshmi Rattan Shukla 1 for 35.)
Brief Scores (other matches):
Group A:
In Jaipur: Rajasthan 478 all out in 152 overs (Vineet Saxena 114, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 119; Dhawal Kulkarni 3 for 88, Suryakumar Yadav 2 for 21, K Pawar 2 for 21) vs Mumbai 76 for 0 in 28 overs (Aditya Tare batting 43).
In Anantapur: Tripura 260 all out in 107 overs (Abbas Ali 103; Atchuta Rao 3 for 41, Syed Sahabuddin 2 for 49, D Shivkumar 2 for 48) vs Andhra 154 for 0 in 63 overs (Prasanth Kumar batting 80, Hemal Watekar batting 57).
In Surat: Gujarat 600 for 9 decl in 165 overs (Smit Patel 61, Parthiv Patel 56, Manprit Juneja 159, Rujul Bhatt not out 160; Ravindra Jadeja 4 for 125) vs Saurashtra 42 for 0 in 12 overs.
In Hyderabad: Hyderabad 341 all out in 114.3 overs (Hanuma Vihari 81, VVS Laxman 120; Ishwar Pandey 4 for 88, Anand Rajan 4-64) vs Madhya Pradesh 44 for 3 in 22 overs.
Group B:
In Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 538 for 4 decl in 168 overs (Abhinav Mukund 51, K.B. Arun Karthik 50, Baba Aparajith 112, Subramaniam Badrinath 72, Dinesh Karthik not out 154; Sunil Raju 2 for 148) vs Karnataka 26 for 0 in 10 overs.
In Vadodara: Vidarbha 264 all out in 101 overs (Hemang Badani not out 111, Shalabh Shrivastava 63; M Vahora 3 for 94, Firdaush Bhaja 3 for 50, Yusuf Pathan 2 for 35) vs Baroda 119 for 2 in 43 overs (Aditya Waghmode 62).
In Delhi: Odisha 143 all out and 7 for 0 vs Delhi 331 all out in 105.4 overs (Mithun Manhas not out 161, Sumit Narwal 66; Basant Mohanty 4 for 81, Alok Mangaraj 3 for 63, Deepak Behera 2 for 47).
In Pune: Maharashtra 738 for 5 in 177 overs (Harshad Khadiwale 68, Dilip Atitkar 80, Kedar Jadhav 327, Rohit Motwani 146; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2 for 48, Piyush Chawla 3 for 233) vs Uttar Pradesh.
Group C:
Jammu and Kashmir 338 all out in 151.3 overs (Ian Dev 36, Parvez Rassol 171 Samiullah Beigh not out 57; S Bandekar 2 for 61, Sher Yadav 2 for 54, Sunil Desai 4 for 24) vs Goa 48 for 0 in 29 overs
In Nadaun: Services 312 all out in 97.4 overs (Pratik Desai 61, Soomik Chatarjee 54, Rajat Paliwal 52; V Malik 3 for 89, Rishi Dhawan 3 for 80, Prashant Chopra 2 for 26) vs Himachal Pradesh 252 for 2 in 80 overs (Aakash Chopra 65, Prashant Chopra 90, Paras Dogra batting 56)
In Jamshedpur: Assam 179 all and 27 for 2 in 11.5 overs vs Jharkhand 174 all out in 76.1 overs (Rameez Nemat 53, Saurabh Tiwary 33; Abu Nechim 2 for 44, Arlen Konwar 6 for 67).