The second round of matches in the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season has ended. As expected, most matches ended in draws, some due to weather, while others due to tough competition between the teams. 42-time champions Mumbai had a 199-run lead over Chhattisgarh, thanks to Ajinkya Rahane‘s hundred, at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC in Mumbai, but the rain-hit match saw 268.2 overs delivered instead of the expected 360. This led to Mumbai settling for a draw.
Mohammed Shami shines
After taking 7 wickets against Uttarakhand, Mohammed Shami has picked up 8 wickets against Gujarat. Playing at the Eden Gardens, the veteran pacer took the scalps in just 28.3 overs across the two innings. This included a 5-wicket haul as Bengal was defending a 327-run target. This bodes well for Shami’s prospects of returning to India’s Test team for the South Africa series.
Mukesh Choudary & Ramakrishna Ghosh uproot Chandigarh
After Prithvi Shaw’s blistering double hundred, Maharashtra’s fast bowler bagged an important 144-run win over Chandigarh. Mukesh Choudary and Ramakrishna Ghosh, both of whom play for Chennai Super Kings, picked up 4-wicket hauls to help Maharashtra top the Elite Group B points table.
Rain deprives Suryavanshi; Dhull does it for Delhi
Nagaland ended up as the biggest surprise of the second round. Tamil Nadu declared at 512/3, and then Gurjapneet Singh took a hat-trick to have them at 9/3. But from there, Nagaland flipped the script. Dega Nischal forced a 129-run stand with Yugandhar Singhand and then a 230-run partnership with Imliwati Lemtur. Nischal ended up scoring 175, Singhand 67, and Lemtur 146. However, Nagaland got out for 446 and Tamil Nadu survived a major scare.
Yash Dhull scored twin fifties against Himachal Pradesh in a match that ended in a draw. Vaibhav Suryavanshi didn’t get a chance to bat since the last two days of their match against Manipur were washed out. Karun Nair’s lone-warrior unbeaten 174-run knock earned him the ‘player of the match’ award, but the Karnataka vs Goa match also ended in a draw.
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