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Ranji Trophy: How guests Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarvate worked in tandem to take Kerala to an unprecedented summit clash

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Ranji Trophy: How guests Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarvate worked in tandem to take Kerala to an unprecedented summit clash

Jalaj Saxena’s First-Class debut came two days after his 19th birthday in December 2005 against Kerala in his hometown Indore. He would meet them again the next year in Palakkad in his third appearance, alongside Amay Khurasiya, the only India international in the Madhya Pradesh XI then.In a twist of cricketing fate a staggering 149 matches into his red-ball career, the 38-year-old Saxena would see his dream of a Ranji Trophy final realised with Kerala on Friday – nine years after he left his home state – with head coach Khurasiya in his first season in charge of the side. Nagpur-born Aditya Sarvate’s only two meetings against Kerala ended in victories. Part of the Vidarbha side that wiped out Kerala in their only two knockout meetings – the Ranji quarterfinal in 2016-17 and the semi-final...

Yash Rathod’s fifth Ranji ton and Wadkar’s gritty fifty leave Mumbai gasping in Ranji Trophy semifinal

When Yash Rathod was an upcoming cricketer in his early days his uncle ensured he was penalised if dismissed early. The paternal uncle had enough of his nephew getting out cheaply, rather frequently, as he was intent on making someone in the family a cricketer, and not just sit in the family grocery shop. Luckily, by the time Rathod turned 10, he fell in love with the game. This year has been a dreamy season for Rathod who scored his career best 151 against Mumbai in the semi-finals; his marathon innings has pushed him to third spot in the list of highest run getters this season (933 runs). On Thursday, Mumbai witnessed some khadoos-ness from Vidarbha as two of their lower-order batsmen Rathod and Akshay Wadkar refused to budge from the crease. They batted 367 balls, handled bowlers for mo...

Ranji quarterfinal: Why there is more grit to Tamil Nadu than that meets the eye

Tamil Nadu skipper R Sai Kishore lays bare what his team has to overcome in the next five days at Nagpur where they face Vidarbha in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals. “The real competition is with you. If you can face your own insecurities, if you can face your own mind, if you can face your own ego, I think there will be no one who can defeat you. I think that holds true for the Tamil Nadu team. If we can play to your potential, if we can face our own insecurities, there is no team that can stop us,” he says. In many ways, this is what Tamil Nadu are up against when they cross over the ropes at the Civil Lines in Nagpur, the preferred home venue for Vidarbha. As expected Vidarbha — which pocketed more points (40) than any other team in the group stages – have rolled out a green carpet to we...