Ranji Trophy Live Score, 2025-26 Round 1 Day 1: Gaikwad, Jalaj lead MAH counter vs Kerala; Karun-Padikkal combine for 50 stand – Sportstar

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FILE PHOTO: Karun Nair in action. | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran
Welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of Day 1 of Round 1 of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 taking place in multiple stadia across the country. 
Suraj Jaiswal picks his third wicket of the innings. Shashwat Dangal is bowled for 17 off 57 balls. 
Cuttack: Odisha 71/4 in 31 overs vs Baroda
Kolkata: Uttarakhand 76/3 in 31 overs vs Bengal
Rajkot: Karnataka 99/2 in 34 overs vs Saurashtra
Bengaluru: Vidarbha 118/1 in 35 overs vs Nagaland
New Delhi: Services 73/1 in 33 overs vs Tripura
Thiruvananthapuram: Maharashtra 81/5 in 26 overs vs Kerala
Surat: Haryana 109/6 in 33 overs vs Railways
Coimbatore: Jharkhand 102/3 in 34 overs vs Tamil Nadu
Ahmedabad: Assam 114/2 in 35 overs vs Gujarat
Rajsamand: Chhattisgarh 92/5 in 31 overs
Srinagar: Mumbai 99/3 in 31 overs
Kanpur: Andhra 105/1 in 33 overs vs Uttar Pradesh
Hyderabad: Delhi 85/2 in 29 overs vs Hyderabad
Indore: Punjab 91/4 in 35 overs vs Madhya Pradesh
Porvorim: Goa 122/3 in 31 overs vs Chandigarh
Puducherry: Himachal Pradesh 25/1 in 12 overs vs Pondicherry (late start, match ongoing)
Fifty-run partnership between Ruturaj Gaikwad and Jalaj Saxena in the rescue act for Maharashtra. The pair has started opening up, driving overpitched deliveries to the fence with ease. 
Karun Nair and Devdutt Padikkal combine for a 50-run stand after the two early jolts. 
Prasanna: Gurjapneet Singh, brought back into the attack and switching to bowl from the Pavilion end in the 29th over, brings the 55-run third-wicket stand (90 balls) between left-hander Virat Singh (28, 47b, 4×4) and Sharandeep Singh (35 n.o., 73b, 3×4, 1×6) to an end. Virat nicks behind to the keeper. 
Ishan Kishan the new batter in at 5. 
Vipraj Nigam removes Abhishek Reddy to break the 93-run stand with Bharat. Shaik Rasheed is the new batter in for Andhra. 
The wicket of skipper Denish Das (16) has brought in Riyan Parag at 4. Pradyun Saikia going well at the top, unbeaten on 69. 
Himanshu Sangwan picks up his second wicket of the day, traps Dheeru Singh in front. Parth Vats and Sumit Kumar will have to provide some lower-order resistance for Haryana. 
Uttarakhand 76/3 in 31 overs at lunch, Bhupen Lalwani 22 batting, Shashwat Dangwal 10 batting, Suraj Jaiswal 2/16, Ishan Porel 1/24
Fifty for Kona Bharat! The wicketkeeper-bat puts up a solid opening partnership with Abhishek Reddy. Bharat has fallen down the pecking order in the Indian system and will be hoping for a bucketload of runs to bring his name back in the reckoning. 
Yudhvir picks up his second. Ajinkya Rahane is dismissed for 27 off 66 balls. All three dismissals in the game so far have been edges to the keeper. 
A gaffe in the scoreboard had shown Sarfaraz had been out for a duck in the first over. The updated scorecard says, in fact, it was Musheer who was dismissed. Sarfaraz has come in to bat at 5 after Rahane’s dismissal. 
Atharva Taide falls for 18 against Saurav. Dhruv Shorey joins Aman Mokhade at the crease. 
Ayush Mhatre is dismissed for 22 off 59 by Yudhvir Singh. Siddhesh Lad joins Rahane in the middle. 
Pradyun Saikia scores a fifty for Assam against Gujarat. A 44-run stand brewing with skipper Denish Das. 
Two players in either end of their careers stick up a 50-run stand after Sarfaraz’s early dismissal. 
Mhatre unbeaten on 28, while former skipper Rahane bats on 21. 
Atit Sheth picks up his second wicket. Govind Poddar is bowled by the all-rounder for zero. Four wickets have fallen with the score at 49. 
Rajasthan’s other left-armer now strikes twice after Khaleel’s early incursions. Aniket Choudhary packs Sanjeet Desai (10) and Amandeep Khare (0). 
Two wickets in four balls for Baroda against Odisha. Barghav Bhatt removes Sandeep Pattnaik for nought after Gaurav Choudhary was run out on 24. Skipper Subranshu Senapati in at 4. 
Right on cue, Atit Sheth removes the set Swastik Samal on 24. Odisha three down. 
Suraj Jaiswal picks up two wickets in back-to-back overs. Prashant Chopra and Kunal Chandela are back in the hut. 
Swapnil Singh removes Irfan Ali to give Tripura the breakthrough against Services. 
Vishu Kashyap breaks the 45-run opening stand, removing Manthan Khutkar on 21. Suyash Prabhudessai is joined by Abhinav Tejrana. 
Prasanna: Left-arm spinner D.T. Chandrasekar strikes off his second ball after coming into the attack in the 14th over. Kumar Suraj goes on the backfoot to cut and misses for the ball to knock his middle stump off the ground.
Nishant Sindhu falls for 10 off 9 balls to Z. A. Khan. Haryana in dire straits at 55/4. 
WICKET!! Nikin Jose departs for 12. Looks to come down the track and flick one through midwicket. The inside edge pops up off the pad and the slip fielder completes an easy catch. 
Two wickets in quick succession for Hyderabad. Arpit Rana falls for 7 before Yash Dhull is dismissed for a duck. A wicket apiece for Punnaiah and Milind. 
S. Prasanna Venkatesan: After 10 overs, Jharkhand 19/1. Left-arm pacer Gurjapneet Singh had opener and left-hander Shikhar Mohan’s off-stump uprooted in the sixth over (11/1).
WICKET!! Nidheesh picks up his third wicket. Saurabh Nawale is trapped in front by one that moves back in. 
WICKET!! Himanshu Sangwan removes Lakshya Dalal on 29 off 45 balls. Yashvardan Dalal, the new batter in. 
WICKET!! Arzan Nagwaswalla breaks the Assam opening partnership. Parvej Musaraf falls for 10 off 22 balls. 
WICKET!! Saransh picks his second. Removes Jaskaran Singh Paul on 15. Anmolpreet Singh joins Uday Saharan in the middle. 
Anmol’s stay is cut short by Saransh. He departs for a four-ball nought. 
WICKET! Mayank Shandilya falls for 9 off 11 balls against Z.A. Khan. Nishant Sindhu in at 4 for Haryana. 
YB Sarangi: Bengal won the toss and asked Uttarakhand to bat. The visiting openers showed some patience before the first change bowler Ishan Porel, replacing Mohd Shami, had Avneesh Sudha (12) caught at second slip in his second over and the innings’ 11th over. The star pair Shami-Akash Deep bowled eight overs together, but Uttarakhand batters negotiated well on a warm morning. Nothing much for the pacers so far.
WICKET!! The switch to spin works for Saurashtra. Mayank Agarwal holes out to the mid-on fielder against Dharmendrasinh Jadeja for 2. 
First runs off the bat after 7.3 overs for Maharashtra, Nawale pulls NP Basil over square leg for six!
WICKET!! Khaleel picks up his second. Cleans up Anuj Tiwary for 9 off 23 balls. 
WICKET!! Khaleel Ahmed strikes, traps Ayush Pandey in front for 8. 
WICKET!! TN pacer Gurajpneet Singh castles opener Shikhar Mohan for 10 off 25 balls. 
WICKET!! Ishan Porel strikes for Bengal. He removes Avneesh Sudha for 12 off 22 balls. Skipper Kunal Chandela joins Prashant Chopra in the middle.
Sachin Baby is playing his 100th Ranji Trophy match and he is the first player from Kerala to achieve this feat.
Four for Kerala! Second one for Basil NP. Ankeet Bawne is late to bring the bat down on a back-of-a-length ball, ends up inside-edging it onto the stumps. 
Couple of interesting talking points from the game: 
– 17-year-old off-spinner Hemchudeshan debuts for TN.
– India U-19 all-rounder R.S. Ambrish (18) also debuts.
– 32-year-old left-arm spinner D.T. Chandrasekar plays a Ranji match for TN after 10 years.
WICKET!! Skipper Ankit Kumar falls for nought. Kunal Yadav manages to clean him up. 
WICKET!! Prabhsimran Singh falls early! Off-spinner Saransh Jain dismisses him for 4 off 11 balls. 
Nikin Jose survives! He was caught behind the wicket off skipper Unadkat, but the third umpire rules that the left-armer had overstepped.
There goes the third! NP Basil gets one to move away and bounce a touch. Catches the top end of Arshin Kulkarni’s bat and a brilliant catch from Kunnummal in the cordon. 
WICKET!! Musheer Khan falls for a duck for Mumbai against J&K. Auqib Nabi with the wicket. Ajinkya Rahane joins Ayush Mhatre at the crease.
Two in two for Kerala! Nidheesh welcomes Sidhesh Veer with a back-of-length ball outside off, the batter feathers one to the cordon. 
WICKET!! Crucial wicket for Kerala! Nidheesh removes the dangerous Prithvi Shaw for nought. Traps him in front with a fuller ball on the stumps. 
N. Jagadeesan (C, WK), Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shahrukh Khan, B. Indrajith, B. Sachin, Andre Siddharth, R.S. Ambrish, D.T. Chandrasekar, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapneet Singh, J. Hemchudesan
Mayank Agarwal (C), Karun Nair (VC), Shrijith KL (WK), Smaran R, Shreyas Gopal, Devdutt Padikkal, Nikin Jose, Shikhar Shetty, Abhilash Shetty, M Venkatesh, Mohsin Khan
A heavyweight clash is set to kick off the 2025–26 Ranji Trophy season as domestic powerhouses and former champions Karnataka and Saurashtra face off in a Group-B encounter here on Wednesday.
Cuttack: Odisha wins the toss, opts to bat vs Baroda
Kolkata: Bengal wins the toss, opts to field vs Uttarakhand
Rajkot: Karnataka wins the toss, opts to bat vs Saurashtra
Bengaluru: Nagaland wins the toss, elects to field vs Vidarbha
New Delhi: Services wins the toss, opts to bat vs Tripura
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala wins the toss, opts to field vs Maharashtra
Surat: Haryana wins the toss, opts to bat vs Railways
Coimbatore: Jharkhand wins the toss, opts to bat vs Tamil Nadu
Ahmedabad: Assam wins the toss, opts to bat vs Gujarat
Rajsamand: Rajasthan wins toss, opts to field vs Chhattisgarh
Srinagar: J&K wins the toss, opts to field against Mumbai
Kanpur: Andhra wins the toss, elects to bat vs Uttar Pradesh
Hyderabad: Hyderabad wins the toss, elects to field vs Delhi
A formidable Bengal, studded with star pacers Mohammed Shami and Akash Deep and a bunch of experienced batters, will look to start its season on an emphatic note when it takes on Uttarakhand in a Ranji Trophy Group-C match.
Bengal has won the toss and opted to field against Uttarakhand in Kolkata. This encounter will begin at 9:00 am IST due to the early sunrise in eastern India. 
Odisha has won the toss and opted to bat first in Cuttack against Baroda. 
India’s 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season could define the next generation of Test cricketers. With the BCCI directive ensuring top players’ participation, all eyes are on emerging fast bowlers, batting contenders, and a shift toward livelier pitches.
Welcome to the live coverage of Round 1 of the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season. Stay tuned for all scores, news and other updates from Day 1.
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