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Ranji Trophy 2023-24: Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande broke a slew of records with their record 10th placing, smashing back-to-back centuries after reaching numbers 10 and 11 respectively.
Mumbai all-rounders Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande wrote history by becoming only the second No. 10 and No. 11 pair in First-Class history to register centuries in the same innings during the Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Baroda .
Teaming up for the last wicket in Mumbai’s second Test at 337 for nine overnight, Kotian and Deshpande forged a brave stand to help Mumbai knock Baroda out of the game, having taken a 36-run lead in the first innings. Kotian reached his first century in 115 balls with nine fours and three sixes. Deshpande did the same in 112 deliveries, an innings comprised of eight fours and six maximums, as both batsmen scored their first First-Class hundred.
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The duo are only the second pair after Chandu Sarwate and Shute Banerjee to register First Class centuries at No. 10 and No. 11 in the same innings. Sarwate and Banerjee achieved the feat in a Surrey v Indians match at the Oval in 1946.
The Kotian-Deshpande partnership is also only the third time that an Indian pair has achieved a 200-plus stand for the last wicket. Deshpande also became the third Indian batsman to score a first-class hundred while batting at no. 11 and eclipsed Banerjee’s 121 to record the highest FC score by an Indian number 11 batsman. Deshpande finally holed out for 123 and the partnership ended at 232, one short of the Ranji Trophy record.
While Sarwate and Banerjee hold India’s overall record with 249 runs, the Ranji Trophy record is held by Ajay Sharma and Maninder Singh. Sharma and Singh achieved the feat with a 233-run partnership against Bombay in the 1991-92 Ranji semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
While Sharma top-scored with an unbeaten 259, Singh compiled 78 in his 233-run stand in a match that Delhi eventually won by virtue of first-innings lead.
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First uploaded on: 27-02-2024 at 11:30 IST