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Ranji Trophy 2026-27 round one: Jadeja hundred, Shami four-for and big wins for UP and Baroda

India's Test players were back in domestic cricket for the opening round, with mixed results.

By , Sports news desk

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Indian fast bowler Mohammed Shami
Mohammed Shami (File photo) Photo: President's Secretariat / Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India

The 2026-27 Ranji Trophy began on 11 October. Uttar Pradesh and Baroda won by an innings, Ravindra Jadeja scored a century for Saurashtra and Mohammed Shami took four wickets for Bengal.

Key takeaways

  • Round one ran from 11 to 14 October 2026.
  • Uttar Pradesh beat Bihar by an innings and 267 runs; Baroda beat Goa by an innings and 135.
  • Ravindra Jadeja made 102 and took three wickets for Saurashtra.
  • Mohammed Shami took 4 for 30 as Bengal beat Delhi by nine wickets.

The 2026-27 Ranji Trophy began on 11 October with several of India's Test players back in state colours, and the opening round, which ended on 14 October, gave them mixed starts.

The biggest results

  • Uttar Pradesh beat Bihar by an innings and 267 runs. UP made 540, with Madhav Kaushik scoring 150 and Rinku Singh 112, then bowled Bihar out for 141 and 132.

  • Baroda beat Goa by an innings and 135 runs. Captain Atit Sheth was out for 99 in a total of 472 for 8 declared, and spinners Bhargav Bhatt and Mahesh Pithiya each took nine wickets in the match.

  • Vidarbha beat Pondicherry by 160 runs, led by captain Akshay Wadkar's 198.

  • Hyderabad, captained by Mohammed Siraj, beat Tripura by an innings and 40 runs.

How the India players fared

Ravindra Jadeja made the strongest case. Playing for Saurashtra against Chhattisgarh, he scored 102 off 209 balls, his 16th first-class century, and took three wickets. The match was drawn, with Saurashtra taking first-innings points, and Jadeja was named Player of the Match.

Mohammed Shami, who has not played for India for more than a year, took 4 for 30 in the first innings for Bengal against Delhi and added one more wicket in a nine-wicket win.

Siraj went wicketless in Tripura's first innings but took 2 for 19 in the second. KL Rahul made four and one for Karnataka against Andhra, and Yashasvi Jaiswal was out for a 13-ball duck for Mumbai, though Mumbai still beat Chandigarh by an innings and 155 runs.

Other notes

Umesh Yadav took 5 for 70 on his debut for Punjab after 18 years with Vidarbha, and 19-year-old Vihaan Malhotra scored a century on his first-class debut in the same match. Karun Nair made an unbeaten 155 for Karnataka.

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