Memorable innings of the number 8 batsman. (Photo- Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
The fourth round of Ranji Trophy 2025-26 started on 8 November. Many brilliant innings have been seen so far in the first two days of the matches. Something similar was seen in the Uttar Pradesh-Nagaland match being played in Green Park, Kanpur. In the first innings of this match, a bowler batting at number 8 for Uttar Pradesh scored a century. The special thing was that this player also achieved the feat of scoring a century for the first time in his first class career. He has been playing first class cricket for the last 7 years.
Memorable innings of number 8 batsman
Uttar Pradesh won the toss in this match and decided to bat first, which proved to be correct. Uttar Pradesh declared its first innings after scoring 535 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. During this, fast bowler Shivam Mavi, who came to bat at number 8, played a brilliant innings. He batted brilliantly and hit fours and sixes. Apart from him, every bowler of Nagaland proved to be a failure.
Shivam Mavi faced a total of 87 balls in this innings and scored 101 runs at a strike rate of 116.09. His innings included 10 fours and 5 sixes. With this, Shivam Mavi achieved the feat of scoring a century for the first time in his first class career. Let us tell you, before this match, Shivam Mavi had played 21 first class matches, but he could not touch the 50-run mark even once. But this time he also crossed the 50 run mark and also scored a century.
These batsmen also scored centuries
In this innings of Uttar Pradesh, great innings were also seen from the bat of Madhav Kaushik and Aryan Juyal. Aryan Juyal scored 140 runs in 205 balls, which included 18 fours. On the other hand, Madhav Kaushik was not out even after playing 374 balls and returned unbeaten after scoring 185 runs. In Madhav Kaushik’s innings, 11 fours were seen from his bat. At the same time, opener Abhishek Goswami also gave a good start to the team by contributing 55 runs.