Not only the star players of the Indian cricket team, but also the domestic cricketers have become very busy now because the Ranji Trophy season has started. Like every season, this time too many records are expected to be made and history to be created in Ranji Trophy and on the second day of the season itself, four batsmen did something similar. In the Elite Group-B match in Dharamshala, host Himachal Pradesh made such a rain of runs against its neighbor Uttarakhand that it created history. For Himachal Pradesh, all four opening batsmen scored centuries, which happened only for the second time in the more than 80-year long history of Ranji Trophy. On the basis of this, Himachal declared its first innings with a big score of 663 runs after losing only 3 wickets.

4 consecutive batsmen scored centuries, created history

In this match which started from Friday 11th October in Dharamshala, host Himachal Pradesh batted for almost 2 days. During this period, the bowlers of Uttarakhand had to yearn for one wicket each. For Himachal Pradesh, batsmen at number one, second, third and fourth scored brilliant centuries. Given. It was started by the opening pair of Shubham Arora and Prashant Chopra. Together they made a brilliant partnership of 206 runs for the first wicket. Shubham, playing only his third first class match, also scored the first century of his career. He was out after scoring 118 runs.

Whereas experienced batsman Prashant Chopra scored the 14th century of his career. During this, he made a partnership of 211 runs with Ankit Kalsi for the second wicket. However, Prashant missed coming close to a double century. He was bowled by Mayank Mishra on the score of 171. Prashant hit 19 fours in his innings. Ankit had also completed his century before Prashant was out. Even after this, Himachal's batsmen did not stop and Ankit took the innings forward with Ekant Sen who came at number four. There was a partnership of about 170 runs between the two for the third wicket. Here Ekant got out after scoring the first century of his career.

This batsman scored a double century

With Ekant's century, Himachal Pradesh created history in Ranji Trophy. This is only the second time in the history of the tournament, when the first four batsmen of a team have scored centuries in the same innings. Earlier in 2019, Sumiran Amonkar (160), Vaibhav Govekar (160), Smit Patel (137 not out) and Amit Verma (122 not out) from Goa had made this record for the first time against Arunachal Pradesh. As far as Himachal Pradesh is concerned, for them Shubham scored 118, Prashant 171 and Ekant 101, whereas Ankit did not get peace even after scoring a century and he also scored a double century for the first time in his career. He remained unbeaten after scoring 205 runs. At the same time, by the end of the day's play, Uttarakhand had scored only 50 runs and also lost one wicket.