There are already hype at the large scale around the upcoming Indian Premier League season, and IPL 2026 season. Before a fresh IPL season, many players have played some fantastic innings. An Indian cricketer, who mostly known as a fast bowler, scored a hundred in Ranji Trophy 2025.
100 for a forgotten Indian pacer
The fourth round of the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy began on November 8th. The first two days of matches have already seen several impressive innings. The Uttar Pradesh-Nagaland match, being played at Green Park in Kanpur, witnessed a similar scenario. In the first innings of this match, a bowler batting at number 8 for Uttar Pradesh scored a century. It was also remarkable that this player scored a century for the first time in his first-class career. He has been playing first-class cricket for the past seven years.
Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat first, which proved to be a wise decision. Uttar Pradesh declared their first innings at 535 for 6. Coming in at number 8, fast bowler Shivam Mavi played a brilliant innings. He batted explosively and rained fours and sixes. Apart from him, every other Nagaland bowler failed.
It is Shivam Mavi
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 scored the first century in his first-class career. It’s worth noting that prior to this match, Shivam Mavi had played 21 first-class matches, but he hadn’t reached the 50-run mark even once. But this time, he surpassed the 50-run mark and scored a century.
Uttar Pradesh’s innings also saw impressive knocks from Madhav Kaushik and Aryan Juyal. Aryan Juyal scored 140 runs off 205 balls, including 18 fours. Meanwhile, Madhav Kaushik remained unbeaten on 185 runs after facing 374 balls. Kaushik’s innings included 11 fours. Opener Abhishek Goswami also contributed 55 runs to give the team a solid start.