Vijay leads the way for TN

Overnight batsman Sanjib Sanyal added just 15 while Mahesh Rawat (0),M Suresh (9),Murali Kartik (0),Kulamani Parida (8) and Shailender Gehlot (0) failed to touch double figures.

Brief scores: Railways (1st innings) 327 all out (S Bangar 163*; R Ashwin 3/104,A Mukund 3/5); Tamil Nadu (1st innings) 150 for two (M Vijay 65*,S Badriinath 33*)

Pandey falls for 194,but Karnataka take control

Meerut: Uttar Pradesh were in the danger of conceding a big first-innings lead in their match against Karnataka as they ended the second day at 214 for the loss of eight wickets. After restricting Karnataka to 405,the UP batting struggled to get going,as Abhmanyu Mithun picked up a five-wicket haul on his first-class debut. Mithun dismissed opener Tanmay Srivastava and Mohammad Kaif in the same over and then came back to remove Parvinder Singh,as UP’s chase failed to take off.

Earlier,Manish Pandey failed to add to his overnight score of 194,dismissed of the fourth ball of the day.

Brief scores: Karnataka (1st innings) 405 all out (Manish Pandey 194,Rahul Dravid 97; Shalabh Srivastava 4/76,Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4/109); Uttar Pradesh (1st innings) 214 for eight (Amir Khan batting 50; Abhmanyu Mithun 5/63,R Vinay Kumar 2/51)

Gujarat bowlers strike back

Ahmedabad: Until Tuesday evening,Gujarat was the team that looked more likely to concede the first innings lead,with Orissa dominating the play. But it was a different-looking outfit that turned up on Wednesday,as they stopped Orissa’s batting to 192,to take a 78-run lead at the Sardar Patel Stadium. At close,Gujarat’s openers had put on five runs in their second innings.

Earlier,Orissa bowlers polished off the remaining three wickets to bring curtains on Gujarat innings at 270. But all thoughts of working towards a first-innings lead,was checked once Siddharth Trivedi dismissed skipper Shiv Sunder Das for a duck in the very first over. In fact most of the batsmen,except for Nirajan Behera,couldn’t make an impression on the disciplined bowling attack led by Trivedi.

Brief scores: Gujarat (1st innings) 270 all out (Parthiv Patel 83; Dhiraj Singh 4/97,Debasis Mohanty 3/45) & 4 for no loss; Orissa (1st innings) 192 all out (Nirajan Behera 78; Siddharth Trivedi 2/19,Mehul Patel 2/38,Ashraf Makda 2/39)

Himachal stay in the hunt

Hyderabad: Unbeaten half-centuries by Paras Dogra and Ajay Mannu helped Himachal Pradesh reach 166 for three at stumps on the second day of their Group A match. Dogra was unbeaten on 54 while giving him company at the crease was Mannu on 52 as the duo played cautiously after the fall of three early wickets.

For Hyderabad,Alfred Absolem picked up two wickets for 48 runs while out-of-favour India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha scalped one victim giving away 38 runs.

Brief Scores: Hyderabad (1st innings) 328 all out (A Kumar 73,MP Arjun 71; V Malik 4/67,A Thakur 2/71); Himachal (1st innings) 166 for three (P Dogra 54 not out,A Mannu 52 not out; A Absolem 2/48)

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Ratra,Bandekar put Goa on top

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