Ranji Trophy Quarter-Finals Day 1 LIVE Score: MUM, JHKD In Trouble As Bowlers Dominate On Opening Day

Uttarakhand are right on top against Jharkhand who are reeling at 80/5 with Robin Minz the latest wicket to fall. UTK bowlers are making use of the bowling conditions and Uttarakhand will need to dig deep, if they are to post a respectable total here.

All four Quarter-final matches have seen wickets tumble as bowlers rule the roost on opening day of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26. Mumbai and Jharkhand find themselves three down whereas J&K and Andhra have lost two wickets whilst batting first.

Karnataka have taken two early wickets of Mumbai in their quarter-final match. Devdutt Padikkal-led side will look for more wickets and put the record champions under pressure. Elsewhere, JHKD have also lost two wickets in their QF match against UTK.

AP has raced to 50/0 in 12 overs, thanks to a blistering start from KS Bharat. Andhra are batting first with India pacer Akash Deep going for plenty in his first few overs.

Early setback for Jharkhand in the match against Uttarakhand, with opener Shikhar Mohan being dismissed for just four runs off 23 balls by Janmejay, caught by Saurabh Rawayt. Manishi comes on as the new batter as Jharkhand are 14/1 in seven overs.

• Madhya Pradesh win the toss and opt to field

• Mumbai won the toss and opted to bat

Madhya Pradesh (Playing XI): Harsh Gawali, Yash Dubey, Himanshu Mantri (wk), Shubham Sharma, Rajat Patidar (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Ramveer Gujjar, Saransh Jain, Aryan Pandey, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen.

Jammu and Kashmir (Playing XI): Shubham Khajuria, Yawer Hassan, Shubham Pundir, Paras Dogra (c), Abdul Samad, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (wk), Abid Mushtaq, Auqib Nabi Dar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Vanshaj Sharma, Sunil Kumar.

Karnataka (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Devdutt Padikkal(c), Shreyas Gopal, Smaran Ravichandran, Kruthik Krishna (wk), Vidyadhar Patil, Shikhar Shetty, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prasidh Krishna.

Mumbai (Playing XI): Akhil Herwadkar, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Musheer Khan, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Anand (wk), Shardul Thakur (c), Suryansh Shedge, Siddhesh Lad, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Mohit Avasthi..

Jharkhand (Playing XI): Shikhar Mohan, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Virat Singh (c), Sahil Raj, Robin Minz (wk), Aaditya Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Ishan om, Manishi, Jatin Pandey.

Uttarakhand (Playing XI): Bhupen Lalwani, Kunal Chandela (c), Jagadeesha Suchith, Lakshya Rajesh Raichandani, Shashwat Dangwal, Avneesh Sudha, Saurabh Rawat (wk), Abhay Negi, Mayank Mishra, Aditya Rawat, Janmejay Joshi.

Andhra (Playing XI): Abhishek Reddy, Srikar Bharat (wk), Shaik Rasheed, Ricky Bhui (c), Nitish Kumar Reddy, CR Gnaneshwar, KV Sasikanth, Saurabh Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Kavuri Saiteja, K S Narasimha Raju.

Bengal (Playing XI): Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Anustup Majumdar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Sumanta Gupta, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar.

Two matches already underway in the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 QFs:

• Bengal vs Andhra - Bengal won the toss and opted to field

• Jharkhand vs Uttarakhand - Uttarakhand won the toss and opted to field.

As per reports, Mumbai batter Sarfaraz Khan has been hospitalized and is on medication ahead of their crucial Quarter-final match against Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy. As per a journalist report on X, Sarfaraz is down with viral fever and is in doubt for the match.

• Quarter-final 1: Jharkhand vs Uttarakhand (Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur).

• Quarter-final 2: Madhya Pradesh vs Jammu & Kashmir (Holkar Stadium, Indore).

• Quarter-final 3: Bengal vs Andhra (Bengal Academy, Kalyani).

• Quarter-final 4: Mumbai vs Karnataka (BKC, Mumbai)

  All the matches will get underway on February 6 at 9:30am IST.

Karnataka Squad: KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Aneesh KV, Devdutt Padikkal(c), Smaran Ravichandran, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna(w), Vidyadhar Patil, Shikhar Shetty, Mohsin Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Muralidhara Venkatesh, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Krishnan Shrijith, Dhruv Prabhakar

Mumbai Squad: Akhil Herwadkar, Akash Anand(w), Tushar Deshpande, Musheer Khan, Siddhesh Lad(c), Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Shams Mulani, Himanshu Singh, Mohit Avasthi, Onkar Tukaram Tarmale, Akash Parkar, Atharva Ankolekar, Royston Dias, Shivam Dube, Sairaj Patil, Hardik Tamore, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sylvester DSouza, Shardul Thakur, Tanush Kotian

Good morning cricket fans! We are back with another blog for the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals taking place across India. Stay tuned with us for the live score and play-by-play updates of the match.