Faced with a target of 217 for outright victory, Himachal Pradesh crumbled in the face of some fine bowling by pacer Ishant Sharma (4-44) and ended the day with 83 for five.

Brief scores

•Himachal Pradesh 341 & 83/5 (I Sharma 4/44) vs Delhi 75 & 482/ 6 decl (A Chopra 215, G Gambhir 103; Ashok Thakur 3-72) Match drawn

Big win for Bengal

SILIGURI: Riding on their pace power, Bengal romped to a nine-wicket win against Punjab here. The trio of Ranadeb Bose, Sourav Sarkar and Ashok Dinda took three wickets each to bowl Punjab out for 315 in their second innings. Resuming at 64 for 1, still 208 behind Bengal, Punjab got the taste of things to come as Bose struck in the very first over.

Only Sunny Sohal went on to score 95, but it went in vain. He could only prevent an innings defeat, which could have given Bengal a bonus point.

Brief scores

Bengal: 513 & 45 vs Punjab 242 & 315 (S Sohal 95, Bose 3-55, Sarkar 3-81 ). Bengal won by 9 wickets

Other scores:

• Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 531 for 2 decl vs Saurashtra: 211 & 105/2 (S Jogiyani 46 n.o, C Pujara 47 n.o.). Match drawn

• Mysore: Rajasthan: 393 & 131 vs Karnataka: 329 & 153 (RV Uthappa 54, SP Shinde 50, B Akhil 42 n.o). Match drawn.

• Kanpur: Baroda: 334 & 148 vs UP 209 & 225 (RP Srivastava 44, M Kaif 37). Baroda won by 48 runs.

• Hyderabad: Hyderabad: 240 & 160 ( S Pai 48; D Mohanty 5/25) lost to Orissa: 298 & 103 (BS Pati 52, SS Das 40 n.o.)

PLate group scores:

•Guwahati: Assam 259 & 307/4 (Ramesh 97, Sharath 94*) beat Services 406 & 158/4 dec. (Tahir Khan 55) by six wickets

•Agartala: Tripura 185 & 270/6 (Banik 76, Shetty 62*, Cheruvathur 3-33) beat Kerala 179 & 275/7 dec. by four wickets

•Valsad: Gujarat 312 & 121 beat Vidarbha 208 & 175 (Fazal 78, Makda 4-41, A Singh 3-27) by 50 runs

•Jamshedpur: Goa 336 & 181/2 (Asnodkar 103*) drew with Jharkhand 457/9 dec. (Jakati 6-149)

•Indore: Madhya Pradesh 221 & 196/3 (Ojha 81*, Bakshi 58*, Sanyal 2-15) drew with Railways 464