Rahul Tiwari
khelja|14-10-2024
Ranji Trophy: Currently, the first round matches of the Ranji Trophy 2024 edition are being played in India. Many star players of Team India are seen playing in the first round match.
In such a situation, today we are going to inform you about the innings of such an Indian batsman in Ranji Trophy in which that batsman faced 723 balls in his innings and played a record breaking innings of runs for his team.
Samit Gohel, who plays domestic cricket from Gujarat, faced 723 balls while batting in the second innings for his team in a match against Odisha in the 2016 edition of Ranji Trophy. Facing these 723 balls, Samit Gohail played an unbeaten inning of 359 runs.
During this innings, Samit Gohel also hit 49 fours and 1 six. It was thanks to this marathon innings played by Samit Gohail that Gujarat team batted 227 overs in the second innings.
In the quarter-final match of Ranji Trophy 2016 between Gujarat and Odisha, Gujarat team scored only 263 runs while batting in the first innings. In response to which Odisha team scored only 199 runs in its innings.
After that, when the Gujarat team came to bat in the second innings, thanks to the innings of 359 runs played by Samit Gohel, the Gujarat team batted 227 and in the end the match was a draw and Gujarat )'s team was able to qualify for the semi-final stage under the rule of taking lead in the first innings.
Samit Gohel has played 58 matches in first cricket. In these 58 matches, Samit Gohel has scored 3211 runs while batting at a modest average of 35. Samit Gohail has played 19 half-centuries and 5 century innings in first class cricket during this period.