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Dharmani, Shakti head Ranji aggregates

Mohandas Menon

Punjab's Pankaj Dharmani struck early form, scoring a triple hundred, a double hundred, a single hundred and a fifty in his first four innings this Ranji season. He finished his last innings - his fifth - with a duck! Dharmani, with 678 runs (avg 226.00), is followed by Himachal Pradesh's stone-waller Rajiv Nayyar, with 601 runs (avg 66.78).

Himachal Pradesh's Shakti Singh (who had also appeared a few seasons for Delhi) is the top wicket-taker so far with 27 wickets (avg 23.11). Following him is the young Punjab spinner Sarandeep Singh with 25 wickets (avg 17.72).

With 20 more matches still to be played in the Ranji zonal league phase, the next update of the season's Ranji toppers will appear after the zonal league phase which will be completed by 15th January, 2000.

TOP RUN-GETTERS DURING THE CURRENT RANJI TROPHY SEASON
(All figures updated as on 1-12-1999)

	Team	M	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100	50	0
Dharmani P	PUN	5	5	2	678	305*	226.00	3	1	1
Nayyar Rajiv	HPR	5	9	-	601	271	66.78	2	1	-
Shewag Virender	DEL	4	4	-	469	187	117.25	2	1	-
Mongia D	PUN	5	7	1	468	101*	78.00	2	3	-
Puri Rajesh	HAR	5	8	1	450	109	64.29	2	3	1
Dani Ashu	DEL	5	6	1	443	140	88.60	2	2	-
Yadav Jai P	MPR	4	7	-	416	265	59.43	1	1	1
Abbas Ali S	MPR	4	7	2	388	159	77.60	1	3	-
Rathour Vikram	PUN	5	7	-	371	114	53.00	1	2	-
Manhas Mithun	DEL	5	5	1	358	139	89.50	2	1	1
Sharma Sanjev	RAJ	3	4	2	349	117	174.50	2	2	-
Verma Sanjay	SER	5	10	-	342	74	34.20	-	3	-
Azharuddin M	HYD	3	3	1	333	200*	166.50	1	2	-
Kaypee AS	HAR	5	8	1	332	108*	47.43	1	1	-
Amit Pal Singh	J&K	4	8	1	325	123	46.43	1	1	1
Jitender Singh	HAR	5	8	-	322	125	40.25	2	-	-
Bangar SB	RLY	3	5	-	321	130	64.20	1	1	-
Modi Nilesh	GUJ	2	4	1	307	202*	102.33	1	1	1
Dalal Sanjay	HAR	5	7	1	304	107*	50.67	1	2	-
Sharma Ajay K	DEL	4	4	-	295	143	73.75	1	1	-
Venugopala Rao Y	AND	3	6	-	290	95	48.33	-	3	-
Sharath S	TND	3	5	2	289	106*	96.33	1	2	-
Thomson CD	SER	5	10	1	276	85*	30.67	-	2	-
Gavaskar RS	BEN	2	2	1	275	212*	275.00	1	1	-
Sharma Parinder	HAR	5	8	-	272	79	34.00	-	2	-
Jasvir Singh	HAR	3	5	1	271	116	67.75	1	1	-
Gaur Nischal	HPR	5	9	-	270	70	30.00	-	3	1
Reddy LNP	AND	3	6	2	269	101*	67.25	1	2	-
Kavaljit Singh	J&K	5	10	1	267	62	29.67	-	2	-
Kalyani SJ	BEN	2	2	1	259	200*	259.00	1	1	-
Bali Ranjit	J&K	5	9	-	259	80	28.78	-	1	2
Sodhi RS	PUN	4	6	-	256	104	42.67	1	1	1
Jain Anshu	RAJ	3	4	-	249	90	62.25	-	3	-
Saravanan SV	TND	3	5	-	245	126	49.00	1	1	-
Pathak Amit	AND	3	6	-	239	85	39.83	-	3	-
Raja Ali	MPR	4	6	2	236	104*	59.00	1	-	-
Laxman VVS	HYD	2	2	-	235	131	117.50	2	-	-
Mahajan D	J&K	5	8	-	234	123	29.25	1	-	2
Patel Niraj	GUJ	2	4	1	233	100*	77.67	1	2	-
Sangram Singh	HPR	5	9	-	229	103	25.44	1	-	1
Naidu VST	KAR	3	4	-	218	93	54.50	-	3	-
Sharma Abhay	RLY	3	5	-	214	99	42.80	-	2	-
Yuvraj Singh	PUN	2	3	-	209	149	69.97	1	1	1
Yashwinder Singh	HPR	4	7	-	202	55	28.86	-	2	1

TOP WICKET-TAKERS DURING THE CURRENT RANJI TROPHY SEASON
(All figures updated as on 1-12-1999)

	Team	M	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg	5w	10w	B-B	R/O	S/R
Shakti Singh	HPR	5	1382	48	624	27	23.11	3	1	6-85	2.71	51.19
Sarandeep Singh	PUN	5	1089	51	443	25	17.72	2	1	6-41	2.44	43.56
Kanwaljeet Singh	HYD	3	985	53	367	24	15.29	3	2	6-37	2.24	41.04
Nehra Ashish	DEL	4	890	39	394	23	17.13	3	1	6-66	2.66	38.70
Raju SLV	HYD	3	1012	54	417	21	19.86	1	-	5-105	2.47	48.19
Navdeep Singh	PUN	5	1033	53	380	19	20.00	1	-	5-28	2.21	54.37
Chatterjee U	BEN	2	582	38	195	18	10.83	2	1	7-45	2.01	32.33
Krishnakumar PK	RAJ	3	439	18	211	18	11.72	2	-	6-84	2.88	24.39
Jain Vineet	HAR	5	872	32	437	18	24.28	-	-	4-30	3.01	48.44
Sodhi RS	PUN	4	437	19	209	16	13.06	2	-	5-30	2.87	27.31
Ghyas F	HAR	3	546	20	302	15	20.13	1	-	5-39	3.32	36.40
Madhukar N	AND	3	681	28	336	15	22.40	1	-	6-109	2.96	45.40
Umesh GN	KAR	3	572	25	266	14	19.00	-	-	4-42	2.79	40.86
Gandhe PV	VID	3	689	20	274	14	19.57	1	-	8-88	2.39	49.21
Pawar R	MUM	2	616	38	183	13	14.08	2	1	6-19	1.78	47.38
Jain Pradeep	HAR	3	558	25	217	13	16.69	-	-	4-29	2.33	42.92
Yalvigi A	KAR	3	606	31	269	13	20.69	1	-	5-43	2.66	46.82
Robin Singh Jr	DEL	3	589	16	301	13	23.15	1	-	7-80	3.07	45.31
Chauhan RK	MPR	4	1290	69	377	13	29.00	1	-	5-99	1.75	99.23
Kapoor AR	TND	3	879	33	410	13	31.54	1	-	5-98	2.80	67.62
Panta Rahul	HPR	5	739	12	513	13	39.46	1	-	6-103	4.17	56.85
Karthik Murali	RLY	1	334	25	93	12	7.75	2	1	6-31	1.67	27.83
Bhandari Amit	DEL	2	506	23	216	12	18.00	1	-	5-75	2.56	42.17
Thakur Pankaj	HAR	3	808	47	286	12	23.83	-	-	3-32	2.12	67.33
Hirwani ND	MPR	4	912	51	316	12	26.33	-	-	4-90	2.08	76.00
Rao MV	SER	5	1188	45	591	12	49.25	-	-	3-73	2.98	99.00
Jakati Shadab	GOA	3	660	19	290	11	26.36	-	-	3-41	2.64	60.00
Sharma Sandeep	PUN	5	756	30	345	11	31.36	-	-	3-33	2.74	68.73
Surinder Singh	J&K	5	1027	31	446	11	40.55	-	-	4-67	2.61	93.36
Kulkarni NM	MUM	2	703	43	206	10	20.60	2	-	5-44	1.76	70.30
Vidyut S	TND	3	603	33	210	10	21.00	1	-	5-61	2.09	60.30
Mansur Ali Khan	KAR	3	462	22	217	10	21.70	1	-	6-66	2.82	46.20
Rao KVP	BIH	2	654	29	237	10	23.70	1	-	5-65	2.17	65.40
Sharma Sanjeev	RAJ	3	546	16	267	10	26.70	-	-	4-56	2.93	54.60
Sharma Vijay	J&K	4	630	20	312	10	31.20	-	-	4-63	2.97	63.00
Kulkarni Sachin	SER	5	702	11	435	10	43.50	-	-	4-58	3.72	70.20