UP in command

Rajkot: RP Singh (4/83) and Shalabh Srivastava (4/75) claimed four wickets each to help Uttar Pradesh take a 128-run lead against Saurashtra. Resuming on 125 for 3, Shitanshu Kotak (75) and Pratik Mehta (69) kept the scoreboard ticking, before UP struck to bowl them out for 267. In their second innings, UP lost three wickets before Shivakant Shukla and Parvinder Singh saw them to stumps.

Brief scores: UP 395 and 72/3 (S Shukla batting 33, P Singh batting 0; S Maniar 1/8); Saurashtra 267 all out (S Kotak 75, P Mehta 69; S Srivastava 4/75, RP Singh 4/83)

Punjab in full control

Chandigarh: Resuming on 59/3, Vishwas Bhalla’s century on debut lead the way for Punjab. Bhalla was in good touch in Chandigarh against Hyderabad, smashing twelve boundaries to take the lead past 300. Overnight batsman Pankaj Dharmani gave him good support with 50 while Lov Ablish played a cameo role for the last wicket stance.

Brief scores: Punjab 221 and 307/9 (V Bhalla batting 116, L Ablish batting 30; M Khader 5/101); Hyderabad 193 all out (S Quadri 73 not out; L Ablish 4/70)

TN take lead

Ahmedabad: Tamil Nadu took the first innings lead against Gujarat in Ahmedabad mainly due to skipper Dinesh Kartik’s unbeaten 77 lower down the order. Continuing from the previous day’s score of 198 for 2, Murali Vijay departed soon, five short of his hundred. That set the stage for S Badrinath (50) and Karthik, who put on a 76 run stand.

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