RanjiRound-up

Brief scores: Himachal 125 & 47/2 in 17.1 overs (Debasis Mohanty 2/18); Orissa 316 in 93.1 overs (Halhadar Das 144; Mohinderraj Sharma 5/102)

Baroda in control

Pune: Riding on centuries from Connor Williams and Shatrunjay Gaekwad,Baroda made a strong reply to Maharashtra’s first innings score of 288. At stumps,the visitors were 300 for five.

Brief scores: Maharashtra 288; Baroda 300/5 in 92 overs (Connor Williams 129,Shatrunjay Gaekwad batting 103; Samad Fallah 3/57)

TN in cruise mode

Hyderabad: Anirudha Srikkanth and Abhinav Mukund scored half-centuries as Tamil Nadu racked up runs quickly against Hyderabad. After stopping the hosts at 347,Tamil Nadu were 189 for the loss of one wicket when stumps were drawn.

Brief scores: Hyderabad 347 (Ambati Rayudu 106,Anoop Pai 51; R Ashwin 2/46,Abhinav Mukund 2/42); TN 189/1 in 57 overs (Anirudha Srikkanth 70,Abhinav Mukund batting 66)

Karnataka ahead

Rajkot: Karnataka middle-order rallied around centurion Ganapathy Satish (120) to take a first innings lead of 168 runs over Saurashtra. Robin Uthappa,Amit Verma and Manish Pandey scored half-centuries as the table-toppers made 384 in their first innings.

Brief scores: Saurashtra 216 & 57/0 in 16 overs (Chirag Pathak batting 47); Karnataka 384 (Ganapathy Satish 120,Robin Uthappa 62,Amit Verma 68,Manish Pandey 55; Vishal Joshi 4/77)

Plate semi-finals

Rohtak: Amit Mishra bowled a miserly spell,taking three wickets for 28 runs in 21 overs,as Haryana took giant strides towards Elite Group against Tripura. Tripura were reeling at 137 for 7 in reply to Haryana’s 267.

Brief scores: Haryana 267 (Nitin Saini 59; Timir Chanda 5/56); Tripura 137/7 in 73 overs (Wilkin Mota 39; Amit Mishra 3/28,Sanjay Budhwar 2/35)

Guwahati: Assam opener Dheeraj Jadhav scored an unbeaten 102 in their Plate semi-final against Andhra to help take the first-innings lead.

Brief scores: Andhra 214 in 93.4 overs (Avadhanam Rakesh 66; Arlen Konwar 4/42); Assam 235/6 in 87 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav batting 102; Garikina Prasad 3/85)