Demolition man Sunil Joshi sends Rajasthan hopes for a six

Scoreboard
Karnataka: (1st innings) 243
Rajasthan: (1st innings) Anshu Jain c Akhil b Joshi 20, Gagan Khoda c Prasad b Srinath 3, Nikhil Doru c Akhil b Joshi 66, Rahul Kanwat c Dravid b Ganesh 6, P Krishnakumar c A Vijay b Joshi 19, Kuldeep Singh c Akhil b Joshi 33, Rohit Jhalani c Kumble b Joshi 13, Gaurav Sharma lbw Prasad 0, DP Singh not out 20, Anup Dave c Dravid b Joshi 1, Shamsher Singh lbw Kumble 5. Extras: (b 10, nb 9, lb 6) 25. Total: (in 79.5 overs) 211
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-55, 3-74, 4-105, 5-165, 6-176, 7-180, 8-180, 9-187
Bowling: Srinath 16-3-50-1, Prasad 17-4-42-1, Kumble 14.5-4-31-1, Joshi 26-12-48-6, Ganesh 6-0-24-1
Karnataka: (2nd innings) Mithun Beerala batting 37, Roland Barrington c & b Kanwat 22; Rahul Dravid batting 11. Extras: (b 4, lb 2, nb 1) 7.
Total: (for 1 wicket, in 21 overs) 77
Fall of wicket: 1-52
Bowling: Shamsher 4-2-5-0, Krishnakumar 2-0-15-0, DP Singh 6-1-20-0, Dave 1-0-12-0, Kanwat 7-1-19-1, Jain 1-1-0-0

Bengal well placed
CALCUTTA: Bengal were 193 for four in reply to Delhi’s first innings total of 236 on the second day of the Group A match.
Brief scores: Delhi 236 (Akash Chopra 95, Akash Malhotra 34, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 4-70, Saurav Ganguly 2-50, Utpal Chatterjee 3-47) vs Bengal 193-4 (Nikhil Haldipur 92, Rohan Gavaskar 53; Rahul Sanghavi 2-51)

Goud slams ton
NEW DELHI: Yere Goud (161, batting, 12×4) and Sudhir Wankhede (139, 18×4) added a record 255-runs for the sixth wicket to help Railways amass a big total in the first innings Group B match against Baroda.
Brief scores: Railways 448-6 (Vishal Sharma 43, Yere Goud batting 161, Devender Singh 47, Sudhir Wandhede 139; Zaheer Khan 2-95, Rakesh Patel Valmik Buch 4-104) vs Baroda

Hyderabad 140-0
HYDERABAD: Opener Nanda Kishore (74 batting) and in-form VVS Laxman (59) helped Hyderabad score 140 without loss on the second day of their Group B match.
Brief scores: Bihar 381 (Rajiv Kumar 85, Sunil Kumar 80, Manish Kumar 63, Mahir Diwakar 86; Narenderpal Singh 3-78, Parth Satwalkar 3-42, Kanwaljit Singh 2-88) vs Hyderabad 140-0 (Nandakishore 74 batting, VVS Laxman 59)

Puri defiant
CHANDIGARH: After being given a 99-run start by openers Jitender Singh and Parinder Sharma, Haryana surrendered three wickets for three runs on the second day of their Group C match against Saurashtra.

At close, Rajesh Puri was batting on 62 in his side’s first innings total of 184 for four.
Brief scores: Saurashtra 405 (Sitanshu Kotak 83, Prakash Bhatt 110, Hitesh Prasanna 43, Manoj Parmar 34; Vineet Jain 4-96, Feroze Ghyas 2-105, Manish Shakhalkar 2-61, Pankaj Thakur 2-74) vs Haryana 184 (Jitender Singh 51, Parinder Sharma 43, Rajesh Puri batting 62; Hitesh Prasanna 2-41)

Samshad makes merry
KANPUR: Rizwan Samshad (106) and Gyanendra Pandey (90) added 196 for the unbroken fourth wicket as Uttar Pradesh were 299 for three in reply to Orissa’s first innings score of 241 on the second day of their Group C match.
Brief scores: Orissa 241 vs Uttar Pradesh 299-3 (Manoj Mudgal 62, Jyoti Yadav 32, Rizwan Shamshad 106 batting, Gyanendra Pandey 90 batting; Sanjai Satpathy 3-92).