Second straight ton for Dravid

Openers shine

8226;Baroda: Riding on centuries by both openers, Bengal were placed strongly on 262/2 against Baroda at the Moti Bagh ground in Vadodara. Anustup Majumdar recorded his maiden ton while Arindam Das stood undefeated on 117.

Brief scores: Bengal 262/ 2 Das 117 batting, Majumdar 103 vs Baroda

Munaf takes four

8226;Jaipur: Rajasthan collapsed for 105 against Maharashtra in Jaipur thanks to a four-wicket burst by Munaf Patel before Harshad Khadiwale and veteran leggie Sairaj Bahutule finished off the tail

Brief scores: Maharashtra 155/3 Khadiwale 57 vs Rajasthan 105 Munaf 4/54

Shukla stands tall

8226;Anantpur: Uttar Pradesh could only manage 268 after losing eight wickets against Andhra at Anantpur. Ravikant Shukla held the lower order together with a doughty 77 but neither skipper Mohammad Kaif 34 nor Suresh Raina 13 made much of an impact.

Brief scores: UP 269/8 Ravikant Shukla 77 batting; Vijay Kumar 4/64 vs Andhra

Powar strikes

8226;Chennai: Fifties from Dinesh Kaarthick and Rajhamany Srinivasan could not save Tamil Nadu from meager score of 206 on a day that belonged to the Mumbai bowlers. Ramesh Powar got a four-wicket haul.

Brief scores: Tamil Nadu 206 Kaarthick 76, Srinivasan 66, Powar 4/55 vs Mumbai 20 no loss

Plate Group round-up

Ahmedabad: Tripura 116 Timil Patel 5/15 vs Gujarat 84/2 Parthiv Patel 48

Jamshedpur: Haryana 200/7 Vishwanathan 61, Sahni 58 vs Jharkhand

Palakkad: Kerala 293 for 2 Nair 169 batting, Jagadeesh 101 batting vs Services

Margao: Goa 279/5 S Asnodkar 125 batting, Arunkumar 75 vs Railways

Jammu: Jammu 038; Kashmir 230/5 Ian Singh 104, Dhar 62 batting vs Madhya Pradesh

Guwahati: Assam 65/2 v Vidarbha match called off due to rain