It was the start of the fourth round in the Ranji Trophy. The first day saw some excellent performances with the bat and ball.
The contribution with bat includes Iyer scoring 167 not out for Mumbai against Baroda Sehwag scoring Panchal scoring 141 for Gujarat against Railways 136 and Jayant Yadav 100 for Haryana against Karnataka, Chattrjee scoring 108 not out for Bengal against Delhi, , Syed Mohammed scoring 69 not out for Assam against Vidabrha, Shrivastva scoring 105 not out for Madhya Pradesh against Punjab, , Kamat scoring 124 not out for Goa against Himachal Pradesh, Rasool scoring 129 not out for Jammu and Kashmir against Tripura, Menaria scoring 84 for Rajasthan against Maharashtra
In the bowling department Ravindra Jadjea picking 6 wickets for 75 runs for Saurashtra against Hyderabad and Mehdi picking 5-43 for Hyderabad against Sauhrastra in the 1st innings. p Rishi Dhawan picking 5 for 86 for HP against Goa, Sharath picking 4 for 47 for Karnataka against Haryana, Umesh Yadav and Wakhare picked 4 wickets each for Vidabrha against Assam, Siva Kumar and Stephen picking 3 wickets each against Uttar Pradesh.
Group A
Bengal 272 for 3 (Chatterjee 108*, Saha 67*, Tiwary 55) v Delhi (toss) in Delhi
Haryana 319 for 8 (Sehwag 136, Jayant Yadav 100, Sharath 4-47) v Karnataka in Mysore
Rajasthan 258 for 5 (Menaria 84, Bhatia 59) v Maharashtra (toss) in Jaipur
Vidarbha 1 for 0 trail Assam (toss) 206 (Syed Mohammed 69*, Verma 57, Wakhare 4-47, Umesh 4-49) by 205 runs in Nagpur
Group B
Madhya Pradesh (toss) 251 for 5 (Shrivastava 105*, Saxena 70) v Punjab in Patiala
Gujarat 286 for 6 (Panchal 141, Parthiv 58) v Railways (toss) in Delhi
Andhra (toss) 77 for 0 (Bharat 56*) trail Uttar Pradesh 170 (Praveen 47, Siva Kumar 3-29, Stephen 3-41) by 93 runs in Ongole
Mumbai (toss) 317 for 3 (Iyer 167*, Herwadkar 67, Suryakumar 66*) v Baroda in Vadodara
Group C
Goa 265 for 7 (Kamat 124*, Kauthankar 74, Rishi Dhawan 5-86) v Himachal Pradesh (toss) in Dharamsala
Saurashtra (toss) 102 (Jogiyani 51, Pujara 0, R Jadeja 2, Mehdi 5-43) and 10 for 0 trail Hyderabad 148 (R Jadeja 6-75) by 36 runs in Rajkot
Kerala (toss) 198 for 2 (Jagadeesh 59, Prem 79*) v Services in Delhi
Jammu & Kashmir (toss) 303 for 4 (Rasool 129*, Manhas 96) v Tripura in Agartala