
•At Cuttack: Medium pacer Sudeep Tyagi’s figures of 4/46 spelled doom for Orissa as they were cleaned out for 222 runs giving Uttar Pradesh a victory of innings and ten runs at the Barabati Stadium here today. Earlier, UP posted a mammoth 448 after some help from Piyush Chawla’s 69 and Suresh Raina’s 203 from 217 balls.
Brief scores: Uttar Pradesh 448 (Raina 203, Chawla 69. Preetamjit Das 5-63) beat Orissa 216 and 222 (Halhadar Das 71, Jayachandra 50, Tyagi 4-46) by an innings and 10 runs.
•At Dharamshala: Cheteshwar Pujara’s unbeaten 103 combined with some deadly bowling by off-spinner Kamlesh Makvana who ended the day with a career best of 6/41 saw Saurashtra extend their lead to 326 at the HPCA stadium.
Brief scores: Saurashtra 291 and 216 for 6 (Pujara 103*) lead Himachal Pradesh 181 (Makvana 6-41) by 326 runs.
•At Chennai: Yogesh Takawale made 79 and debutants Vishal Bhilare and Ashish Suryawanshi scored a pair of forties as Maharashtra slowly chugged along to 430 on Day Three at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Tamil Nadu were restricted to 58 for 3 at stumps.
Brief scores: Tamil Nadu 58 for 3 trails Maharashtra 430 (Takawale 76, R Ashwin 6-133) by 372 runs.
•At Amritsar: Pankaj Dharmani surpassed Vikram Rathore as the highest run getter for Punjab in Ranji Trophy when he scored 94 against Andhra at the Gandhi Sports Complex Ground here today. His score added with a brilliant 144 by Uday Kaul meant that Punjab secured a 38 run lead over the southerners.
Brief score: Punjab 372/9 (Kaul 144, Dharmani 94) lead Andhra 334 by 38 runs.
PLATE Group
•Railways vs J&K: Railways 405 (Sharma 120, Beigh 5-115) beat Jammu & Kashmir 194 (Ian Dev 62, Yadav 4-22) and 123 (Sarabjit 44 not out, Bangar 4-29) by an innings and 88 runs
•Haryana vs Goa: Haryana 246 (Sumeet 52, Jakati 6-52) and 6 for 1 trails Goa 271 and 221 (Kamat 60, Ratra 86, Mishra 6-75) by 241 runs
•Assam vs Gujarat: Assam 189 and 15 for 2 trail Gujarat 228 and 367 for 4 decl (Modi 151 n.o, Niraj 124) by 392 runs.
•Vidarbha vs Kerala: Vidarbha 114 and 42 for 0 trail Kerala 169 and 332 for 8 decl (Sarma 79, Nair 72, Shitoot 4-38) by 346 runs
•Madhya Pradesh vs Jharkand: Madhya Pradesh 223 and 165 for 5 (Bakshi 44*, Rao 3-42) lead Jharkhand 139 (Vardhan 47, Rajan 4-51) by 249 runs
•Services vs Tripura: Services 102 and 308 for 7 (Yashpal 94 batting, Jain 3-66) lead Tripura 198 by 222 runs


