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Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) secretary U. Bhagwandas Rao on Wednesday hailed the State’s Under-23 side for completing a rare double this season – maiden Col. C.K. Nayudu Trophy title, and the BCCI men’s U-23 State-A Trophy. “We are absolutely thrilled. It’s an extremely rare double. I think this team has done exceptionally well,” he said at the NPR College Cricket Ground here. “If I want…

The Ranji Trophy 2025-26 season came to a close with Jammu & Kashmir lifting its maiden title at the KSCA Stadium in Hubli on Saturday. Ravichandran Smaran was instrumental in Karnataka’s run to the final. The left-hand batter amassed a whopping 950 runs in 14 innings to top the list of batters with the most runs this season. Another magnificent century 💯Taking the top spot on the batting charts…

With just three points after two matches, Tamil Nadu skipper R. Sai Kishore stressed that his side needs to ‘strike gold’ in the next three games. “We have had a slow start. The first two games didn’t go as expected, and we have to go for gold now and play well,” said Sai Kishore. The 28-year-old conceded that bowlers needed to step up and felt they lacked intensity against Nagaland. “Initially,…

It was not the result Tamil Nadu had hoped for, but the team managed to secure a 66-run first-innings lead against a resilient Nagaland side on the final day of the second round of the Ranji Trophy clash at the BCCI CoE on Tuesday. Both teams’ head coaches, M. Senthilnathan for TN and Debashish Mohanty, former India pacer and current Nagaland head coach, spoke exclusively to Sportstar and shared…

Opening batter Prithvi Shaw scored his first Ranji Trophy hundred for Maharashtra during his side’s second-round match against Chandigarh on Monday. Shaw reached the three-figure mark in just 72 balls in the second innings, marking his 14th First-Class hundred. In the first innings, he had scored eight off nine balls. In his Ranji debut for Maharashtra, he had scored a sparkling 75 in the second…

Services on Sunday beat Assam by eight wickets to break the record for the shortest-ever Ranji Trophy match (in terms of balls) at the Tinsukia District Sports Association Ground. The home team was blown away by eight wickets in merely 540 balls. The fixture that earlier held the record was a Railways versus Delhi contest that was played out in January 1962 and lasted merely 547 balls. In the…

India’s star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is set to play for Saurashtra in its second round Ranji Trophy match against Madhya Pradesh, starting Saturday at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. The 36-year-old Jadeja was not picked for the three-match ODI series in Australia, in which India conceded an unassailable 2-0 lead to the home team after suffering a two-wicket defeat in Adelaide on…

The new season of India’s most prestigious First-Class tournament, the Ranji Trophy, is set to begin from October 15. The tournament will be held in two phases. While the first phase will begin from October 15 and consist of five rounds, ending on November 19. The second phase will commence from January 22 next year and conclude on February 26. In between, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20…