Ranji Trophy 2025-26 Highlights, Round 6 Day 1: Run-Out Ruins Easwaran’s Fine Innings At 81; Gill Goes For Duck

Good morning cricket fans! Welcome to the live coverage of the round 6 of the Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26. India's premier red-ball domestic underway with multiple teams fighting it out across India. Stay tuned with us for the live score and real-time updates of the riveting day of Test cricket.

Shubman Gill and Ravindra Jadeja will compete against each other in Punjab vs Saurashtra match at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Both the Indian players are heading into this clash straight from the recently concluded ODI series against New Zealand on Sunday.

Tripura vs Uttarakhand

Bihar vs Manipur

Odisha vs Tamil Nadu

Bengal vs Services

Assam vs Haryana

Chhattisgarh vs Delhi

Uttar Pradesh vs Jharkhand

Andhra vs Vidarbha

Baroda vs Nagaland

Maharashtra vs Goa

Karnataka vs Madhya Pradesh

Saurashtra vs Punjab

Kerala vs Chandigarh

Gujarat vs Railways

Pondicherry vs Jammu And Kashmir

Hyderabad vs Mumbai

Rajasthan vs Himachal Pradesh

Uttarakhand have won the toss and elected to field first against Tripura in the Elite Group C match at the Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala.

Uttarakhand: Prashant Chopra, Kunal Chandela(c), Bhupen Lalwani, Mayank Mishra, Lakshya Rajesh Raichandani, Saurabh Rawat(w), Jagadeesha Suchith, Shashwat Dangwal, Abhay Negi, Devendra Singh Bora, Janmejay Joshi

Tripura: Bikramkumar Das, Babul Dey, Hanuma Vihari, Sentu Sarkar(w), Vijay Shankar, Manisankar Murasingh(c), Swapnil Singh, Abhijit K Sarkar, Ajay Sarkar, Sridam Paul, Bikramjit Debnath

Odisha have won the toss and elected to bat first against Tamil Nadu.

Odisha: Swastik Samal, Subhranshu Senapati(c), Govinda Poddar, Biplab Samantray, Anil Parida, Sambit S Baral, Rajesh Dhuper(w), Rajesh Mohanty, Badal Biswal, Debabrata Pradhan, Shantanu Mishra

Tamil Nadu: N Jagadeesan(w), Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Nidhish Rajagopal, Andre Siddarth C, Ajitesh Guruswamy, Sonu Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore(c), Athish SR, P Vidyuth, Gurjapneet Singh, Trilok Nag

Haryana have won the toss and elected to bowl first against Assam.

Saurashtra have won the toss and elected to bat first against Punjab.

Uttar Pradesh have won the toss and elected to field first.

Jharkhand: Virat Singh(c), Shikhar Mohan, Sharandeep Singh, Aryaman Sen, Kumar Kushagra(w), Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sahil Raj, Shubham Kumar Singh, Jatin Pandey, Saurabh Shekhar

Uttar Pradesh: Aryan Juyal(c), Madhav Kaushik, Abhishek Goswami, Aaditya Sharma(w), Siddarth Yadav, Priyam Garg, Prashant Veer, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Mavi, Kunal Tyagi, Kartik Yadav

Hyderabad have won the toss and elected to field.

Mumbai: Musheer Khan, Siddhesh Lad(c), Akhil Herwadkar, Sarfaraz Khan, Himanshu Singh, Akash Anand(w), Akash Parkar, Suved Parkar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mohit Avasthi, Tushar Deshpande

Hyderabad: Aman Rao Perala, Abhirath Reddy, Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Kodimela Himateja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Rahul Radesh(w), Rohit Rayudu, Chama V Milind, CTL Rakshan, Mohammed Siraj(c), Nitin Sai Yadav

Chhattisgarh: Aayush Pandey, Anuj Tiwary, Sanjeet Desai, Amandeep Khare(c), Mayank Verma(w), Ashish Chouhan, Vikalp Tiwari, Sahban Khan, Shubham Agarwal, Dev Aditya Singh, Ravi Kiran

Delhi: Priyansh Arya, Sanat Sangwan, Ayush Badoni(c), Sumit Mathur, Divij Mehra, Pranav Rajvanshi(w), Money Grewal, Ayush Doseja, Rohan Rana, Vaibhav Kandpal, Siddhant Sharma

Dev Aditya Singh got early wickets for Chhattisgarh by sending two top order batters of Delhi back to the pavilion. Priyansh Arya and Vaibhav Kandpal are the batters, who have been dismissed and Delhi are reeling at 23/2 after 9 overs.

Punjab have rattled the Saurashtra's top-order with three early wickets. Skipper Harvik Desai (13), Chirag Jani (8) and A V Vasavada (2) are the batters to depart. Indian veteran Ravindra Jadeja is on the crease with Jay Gohil to stabilize Saurashtra's innings.

MP have got off to a decent start against Karnataka. Both the openers - Yash Dubey (21*) and Himanshu Mantri (11*) have stitched a 34-run ongoing stand for the first wicket, denying Karnataka bowlers any wickets with the new ball.

Mumbai openers - A Herwadkar and Akash Anand have got their team to a cautious start against Hyderabad. Though the opposition have Mohammed Siraj as one of their opening bowlers, though both Mumbaiker batter have done well to deny HYD wickets with the new ball. Mumbai are 39/0 after 16 overs.

MUM - 39/0 (16)

Jharkhand openers have provided their team with a 54-run ongoing stand for the first wicket against Uttar Pradesh. Both opener - Shikhar Mohan (26*) and Sharandeep Singh (22*) are looking solid against a strong UP bowling line-up.

JHKD 53/0 (18)

Himachal lost the wicket of opener - Innesh N Mahajan for well-made 40 to Manav Suthar. He did the hard work of surviving the moving new ball but couldn't bat long enough to make the most of relatively better batting conditions.

HP 93/1 (27)

Punjab have ratted Saurashtra batters in the first innings as they are six down for just 137 runs. Harpreet Brar and Jass Inder have picked two wickets each to break the back of SAUR's top-order.

SAUR 138/6 (34)

Gujarat are in trouble against Railways as they are five down till lunch break. B H Merai has been the pick of the bowlers for Railways, who sent back two GUJ batters. Jaymeet Patel (36*) has been the only batter so far for GUJ, who has been able to hold one end well.

GUJ 84/4 (31))

Delhi are in state of bother against Chhattisgarh in the first innings as they are six wickets down with only 76 runs on board. Dev Aditya Singh has been the wrecker-in-chief for Chhattisgarh with 3 key wickets. Ayush Doseja (27*) has been the only batter for Delhi, who has been able to hold one end together.

DEL 76/3 (33)

Sachin Baby (39*) and Baba Aparajith (26*) stabilized Kerala's innings with a 52-run ongoing stand for the 3rd wicket. KER were off to shaky start as both openers - Akarsh AK (14) and Abhishek J Nair (1) fell early to Karthik Shandil and Rohit Dhandha respectively.

KER 89/2 (38)

Bengal are off to a rollicking start against Services at the Bengal Cricket Academy Ground in Kalyani. Both the opener - A R Easwaran (81*) and Sudip Chatterjee (61*) are going strong unbeaten.

BEN 150/0 (40)

In a scintillating display of bowling, Punjab skittle Saurashtra for just 172. Harpreet Brar was the wrecker-in-chief, who broke the back of Saurashtra's batting order with a six-wicket haul. In response, Punjab have also lost one wicket in the form of Harnoor Singh, who was dismissed by Jaydev Unadkat for a duck.

PUN 24/1 (5)

After getting a solid start 150-run start by openers, Bengal lost two wickets in quick succession. Abhimanyu Easwaran suffered a brain fade moment and got run out for 81 while, Sudip Gharami was dismissed by Jayant Goyat for 9 runs.

BEN 205/2 (55)

Mumbai are in a strong position against Hyderabad with two set batter on crease in the form of Sarfaraz Khan (76*) and Siddhesh Lad (39*). Both the batter have forged an unbeaten 112-run stand for the 4th wicket.

MUM 194/3 (54)

Railways wrapped up Gujarat for just 175 runs in the first innings. Z A Khan and BH Merai picked up three wickets each to dismantle GUJ batting line-up. Jaymeet Patel top scored for Gujarat with a valiant 57.

GUJ 157 (55.4)

Jharkhand are in a commanding position against Uttar Pradesh courtesy to the 147-run opening stand by Shikhar Mohan and Sharandeep Singh. While Mohan departed for 87, Sharandeep is still batting for 89, nearing a well-deserved century.

JHKD 212/1 (63)

Saurashtra have made a scintillating comeback in the match courtesy of their bowlers, who have got Punjab reeling at 135/8 in the first innings response to 172. Parth Bhut has been the pick of the bowlers for Saurashtra, scalping five key wickets of Punjab, including skipper Shubman Gill for 0.

Sarfaraz Khan has completed his century and is stitching a massive partnership with Siddesh Lad. After losing three wickets for less than 100 runs, Mumbai have made a strong comeback by neutralising the Hyderabad bowlers. They have now completed a partnership of more 200 runs and still going strong.

Mumbai 298/3 (75)

Tamil Nadu ends the day at the score of 281/7 as stumps gets called by the umpires. Athish SR gave them a good start by scoring a half-century but the middle-order collapsed. Later, Pradosh Ranjan Paul and Andre Siddharth stitched a 71-run partnership to take them to a respectable total. Rajesh Mohanty and Govinda Poddar scalped two wickets each for Odisha.

Tamil Nadu 281/7 (Stumps)

Mumbai's dominance with the bat continues. After Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad also gets to his century. Although immediately after, he gets dismissed LBW. Meanwhile, on the other end, Sarfaraz is nearing his 150-run mark. Mumbai are set up for a big total here.

Mumbai 332/4 (87)

Group A: Yash Rathod scored century to rescue Vidarbha from a tough spot. They end the day on 250/7. Jharkhand dominated Uttar Pradesh with Sharandeep Singh scoring a century. Tamil Nadu finished the day on 281/7 following half-century from Pradosh Ranjan Paul. Baroda were comfortable against Nagaland as well.

Group B: 23 wickets tumbled on Day 1 in the Punjab vs Saurashtra match. Punjab scored 139 in reply of Saurashtra's 172. The latter ended the day on 24/3 in their second innings. Meanwhile, Venkatesh Iyer's 87 drove Madhya Pradesh to 244/5. Maharashtra and Chandigarh dominated Goa and Kerala respectively on Day 1.

Group C: Sudeep Chatterjee's century, followed by Abhimanyu Easwaran's 81, helped Bengal get to a comfortable 340/4 against Services. Railways troubled Gujarat, bowling them out for 175 and finishing the day on 77/2. Swapnil Singh shined for Tripura against Uttarakhand and Assam struggled against Haryana.

Group D: Mumbai were rescued by Sarfaraz Khan and Siddhesh Lad as they produced a 249-run partnership and when stumps was called, Mumbai reached 342/4 against Hyderabad. Jammu and Kashmir bowled out Pondicherry for 233. Delhi scored 216 against Chhattisgarh. Meanwhile, Pukhraj Mann's century took Himachal Pradesh to 314/4.

With that, we conclude our coverage of Day 1 of Ranji Trophy 2025-26's round 6 matches. We will be back tomorrow with live updates from Day 2. Until then, goodbye!