It was another exciting day on the 3rd day of 5th round matches. There was another result with Uttar Pradesh beating Gujarat by 155 runs. The chances of results in other matches are brighter with Karnataka needing 7 wickets to win.
In the batting department Paras Dogra scoring a 209 runs for Himachal Pradesh against Tripura, Uthappa scoring 160 for Karnataka against Rajasthan, Yashpal remained not on 115 while Palliwal scored 103 for Services against Sahuastra, Juneja scoring 91 for Gujarat against Uttar Pradesh in a losing cause.
While in the bowling department the highlights of the day were Quadri picking 6 for 97 for Jharkhand against Goa, Hirwani picking 5 for 60 for Madhya Pradesh against Baroda,Darekar picking 5 for 78 for Maharastra against Vidarbha, R Sharma and Sofi picking 4 wickets each for Jammu and Kashmir against Hyderabad, Hooda also picked 4 for 39 for Haryana against Bengal. Here we look at the day 3 results.
Group A
Bengal 329 and 146 for 7 (Hooda 4-39) lead Haryana 225 (R Sharma 78, Chahal 42, Mukesh 4-53) by 250 runs in Lahli
Odisha 195 for 4 (Behera 62, Sarangi 76*) trail Delhi 311 by 116 runs in Bhubaneshwar.
Rajasthan 242 and 42 for 3 (Aravind 2-20) need another 315 runs to beat Karnataka 281 and 318 for 5 dec (Uthappa 160, Reddy 69) in Jaipur.
Maharashtra 237 (Khurana 74, Sarvate 3-41) and 3 for 1 need another 242 runs to beat Vidarbha 332 and 149 (Ubarhande 47, Jaffer 33, Darekar 5-78) in Nagpur
Group B
Madhya Pradesh 269 and 113 for 2 (Patidar 29*) lead Baroda 296 (Waghmode 68, Pathan 55, Hooda 51, Hirwani 5-60) by 86 runs in Vadodara
UP 273 (Asnora 57, Dwivedi 50) and 257 (Umang 66, Chawla 62*, Axar 5-90) beat Gujarat 100 (Praveen 5-16, Saurabh 5-37) and 275 (Juneja 91, Axar 80, Merai 55, Saurabh 5-106) by 155 runs in Valsad
Railways 164 (Cheluvaraj 63*, Crist 6-60, Kousik 3-8) and 200 for 4 (f/o) (Cheluvaraj 80*, Rawat 77*) lead Tamil Nadu 328 by 36 runs in Delhi.
Group C
Tripura 285 and 88 for 3 trail Himachal Pradesh 561 for 5 dec (Dogra 209*, Bains 114, Chopra 101, Dutta 3-79) by 188 runs in Dharamsala
Hyderabad 280 (Anirudh 68*, R Sharma 4-78, Sofi 4-37) and 122 for 2 (f/o) (Prince 56*, Vihari 46*) trail J & K 460 by 58 runs in Hyderabad
Jharkhand 159 for 4 (Sumit 51, Jakati 3 for 49) trail Goa 302 (Asnodkar 71, Jadhav 63, Quadri 6-97) by 143 runs in Jamshedpur
Services 254 and 311 for 6 (Paliwal 103, Yashpal 115* (in his 100th FC game)) lead Saurashtra 264 by 301 runs in Delhi