Williams scores double century; Vadodara overtake

Vadodara looked unlikely to go past the Saurashtra target, but Williams and Valmick Buch added 60 for the last wicket.

Scoreboard

Saurashtra (1st innings): 437
Vadodara (1st innings, overnight 313-4): Connor Williams not out 237 (628m, 480b, 30×4, 1×6); R Swaroop run out (Kamal Chavda) 88 (264m, 200b, 8×4); Satyajit Parab lbw Odedra 20 (81m, 63b, 1×4); Nayan Mongia b Odedra 3 (25m, 19b); Tushar Arothe c Parmar b Bambhania 27(82m, 48b, 4X4); Atul Bedade c Chudasama b Dhruv 14 (29m, 27b, 3×4); Himanshu Jadhav b Odedra 14 (29m, 21b, 2×4); Ajit Bohite c Merchant b Odedra 1 (5m, 6b); Moin Kadri b Dhruv 8 (25m, 26b, 1×4); Zaheer Khan c Parmar b Dhruv 32 (10m, 16b, 6×4, 1×6); Valmick Buch b Bambhania 25 (43m, 47b, 4×4). Extras (5b, 3lb, 6nb, 4w) 18.

Total (in 157.5 overs, 628 minutes) 487.
Fall of wickets: 1-180 (Swaroop), 2-227 (Parab); 3-243 (Mongia); 4-313 (Arothe); 5-345 (Bedade); 6-366 (Jadhav); 7-368 (Bohite); 8-385 (Moin); 9-427 (Zaheer).
Bowling: Chavda 11-1-55-0 (4nb); Merchant 2-0-15-0 (2nb); Dhruv 46-7-153-3; Odedra 59-16-151-4 (4w); Chudasama 29-4-75-0; Bambhania 10.5-2-30-2.

Saurashtra (2nd innings): Vasant Kumar c Mulherkar (sub) b Buch 42 (43m, 39b, 7×4), Altaf Merchant lbw Buch 4 (31m, 27b), Sitanshu Kotak b Buch 2 (14m, 12b), Prakash Bhatt c Zaheer b Buch 37 (91m, 70b, 2×4), Firoz Bambhania not out 38 (87m, 86b, 2×4). Extras (4b) 4. Total: (for 4 wickets in 38.5 overs, 136 minutes)127.
Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Merchant); 2-45 (Vasant); 3-48 (Kotak).
Bowling: Kadri 2-0-16-0; Buch 18.5-2-55-4; Swaroop 7-2-18-0; Bohite 11-0-34-0.

Maharashtra pushed out
AHMEDABAD: There can only be one winner, they say. But this was one match where both teams ended up losing. Gujarat, having had to face the humiliation of a follow-on, were saved further ignominy, hanging on by the skin of their teeth to force a draw.

But by forcing Maharashtra to split points, they got their opponents thrown out of contention for the third qualifying spot. If Maharashtra, who finished with 13 had managed a full eight points, they would have edged out Saurashtra (14).

Brief scores: Gujarat 309 (Mandar Sane 7-83) & 194-8 (Amrish Kotecha 48, Kirit Damani 33 not out; Mandar Sane 4-63) drew Maharashtra 501-7 decl.

Slender lead for Bihar
JAMSHEDPUR: A vital eleven-run first innings lead over Assam has placed Bihar in better position to sail into the Super League.

Briefscores: Bihar 258 & 47-1 (Aamir Hashmi batting 26) vs Assam 247 (Z Zaffari 37, Rajesh Bora 39, V Samanta 43; Vikash Kumar 5-98, Avinash Kumar 4-74).

Parida hits 193
PURI: Guided by a career-best 193 (239b, 362m, 25×4, 1×6) by skipper Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Orissa declared their first innings at 545 for eight on the second day of their East Zone tie against Tripura. The visitors were on the brink of following on, having lost nine wickets for a paltry 168.

Brief scores: Orissa 545-8 (Pradeep Das 68, RR Parida 193, RR Das 63, A Sukla 5-182) vs Tripura 168-9 (Chetan Sachdev 45, A Barik 3-56, S Satpathy 2-32, J Das 2-25).