Group A

Gujarat, who piled up a mountainous total of 624 on the board, yesterday, today was able to dismiss Punjab on a total of 247, gaining a lead of 305 runs. They enforced the follow-on on Punjab and asked them to bat again. At stumps, Punjab was at a score of 36/1 with nine wickets still in hands. They will have the challenge to bat out full day tomorrow so as to escape from a win whereas Gujarat will be looking to take those nine wickets to gain a bonus point from this game which will help them in future. A good start right in the first session will be quite helpful for Gujarat whereas Punjab will have an uphill task to play 540 balls.

Brief Scores:

Gujarat 624/6 lead by 341 runs vs Punjab 247 (Manan Vohra 68, Mayank Siddana 39; Rush Kalaria 4-41) & 36/1 at Belagavi.

Bengal 99 & 433/8 (Manoj Tiwary 169, Sudip Chatterjee 130; Dhawal Kulkarni 4-108) lead by 303 runs vs Mumbai 229 at Nagpur.

Madya Pradesh 217 & 293 (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 73, Naman Ojha 57; Atit Sheth 4-51) lead by 233 runs vs Baroda 167 & 114/9 (Kedar Devdhar 18; Chandrakant Sakure 4-17) at Dharamsala.

Uttar Pradesh 259 & 330 (Shivam Chaudhary 134, Suresh Raina 91; Karn Sharma 5-71) lead by 340 runs vs Railways 213 & 35/5 (Shivakant Shukla 13; Praveen Kumar 2-8) at Rajkot.

Group BThe third-day of the game between Delhi and Vidarbha was scuppered due to heavy rain in Chennai. Also, there is a prediction of a cyclone that may hit the city which will further put the game in danger as no chances of play are expected tomorrow as well. Delhi will gain three points from this game by virtue of gaining the first innings lead whereas Vidarbha will have to satisfy with one point only.Brief scores:

Delhi 250/8 (Manan Sharma 82*; Rajneesh Gurbani 4-76) lead by 67 runs vs Vidarbha 183 at Chennai.

Karnataka 200 & 168/5 (Kaunain Abbas 62*, Manish Pandey 58; Kamlesh Makwana 3-46) lead by 9 runs vs Saurashtra 359 (Prerak Mankad 126; Vinay Kumar 4-54, Abrar Kazi 4-83) at Patiala.

Assam 126 & 269/5 (Rishav Das 113, Sibsankar Roy 80*; Ajay 2-37) lead by 79 runs vs Jharkhand 316 at Vizag.

Group C

Goa defeated Andhra Pradesh in a low scoring game at Dhanbad. Batting first, Goa scored just 115 runs in the first innings to which Andhra Pradesh replied by gaining a lead of 44 runs. Goa was somehow able to do well in their second innings and scored 276 runs asking Andhra Pradesh to chase a score of 233 runs in the final innings of the game which they failed to chase as they fell short by a margin of 34 runs. Goa churned out six points from the game keeping Andhra Pradesh empty handed.

Brief scores:

Goa 115 & 276 beats Andhra Pradesh 159 & 198 by 34 runs at Dhanbad.

Tripura 213 & 162 (Smit Patel 54; Akshay Chandran 4-16, Iqbal Abdulla 3-32) lead by 65 runs vs Kerala 193 & 117/0 (Mohammed Azharuddeen 80*, Bhavin Thakkar 37*) at Cuttack.

Services 225 & 336/7 (Nakul Verma 156*, Rahul Singh 99; Pankaj Rao 3-64, Kant Singh 3-79) lead by 274 runs vs Chhattisgarh 281 & 6/0 at Mumbai (BKC).

Hyderabad 328 & 244/2 dec. (Tanmay Agarwal 103*) lead by 361 runs vs Jammu & Kashmir 169 & 42/4 (Ahmed Bandy 16; Ravi Kiran 2-14) at Vadodara.

Haryana 402 lead by 30 runs vs Himachal Pradesh 233 & 142/1 f/o (Prashant Chopra 89*; Sanjay Pahal 1-28) at Valsad.