Tamil Nadu and Mumbai continued to fall like nine pins on a minefield of a wicket at Rohtak while Akshath Reddy scored the bulk of Hyderabad's runs against Goa. Madhya Pradesh's Harpreet Singh scored a wonderful double hundred against Uttar Pradesh while Saurashtra's Jaydev Shah came close against Rajasthan. Kerala's Sanju Samson also scored a masterful ton against Jammu & Kashmir.

14 wickets fall on Day 1, 12 on Day 2

After being shot out for 87 on day one, Tamil Nadu fought back on the second day to dismiss reigning champions, Mumbai, for 176. Skipper Aditya Tare's battling 48 helped his side grab a handy first-innings lead of 89. Tamil Nadu put a much improved batting display in their second essay but the Match is still firmly in Mumbai' hands.

Brief Scores:

Tamil Nadu 87 (Baba Indrajith 28 not out; Tushar Deshpande 4/25) & 153/6 (Abhinav Mukund 56; Vijay Gohil 3/36) lead Mumbai 176 (Aditya Tare 48; K Vignesh 5/41) by 64 runs.

Baroda flay Gujarat attack

Aditya Waghmore's heroics on the first day was backed up by Deepak Hooda bringing up a three-figure score on day two on a flat Sawai Mansingh stadium in Jaipur. Axar Patel picked up three wickets but took quite a beating during his toils over two days.

Brief Scores:

Baroda 544/8 decl. (Aditya Waghmore 142, Deepak Hooda 118; Axar Patel 3/136) lead Gujarat 34/0 (Priyank Panchal 14 not out) by 510 runs

Gurkeerat leads Punjab fightback

Discarded Indian batsman, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, along with Uday Kaul stitched an unbeaten 110-run stand at the close of play on day two. Punjab were tottering at 44/4 after Railways had posted a formidable total of 331.

Brief Scores:

Railways 331 (Shivkant Shukla 128; Siddarth Kaul 5/68) lead Punjab 154/4 (Gurkeerat Singh Mann 66 not out; Deepak Bansal 2/28) by 177 runs.

Harpreet guns down UP attack

Madhya Pradesh's Harpreet Singh scored a scintillating unbeaten double hundred against a good Uttar Pradesh attack. The second half of the day belonged to Gaurav Yadav, who landed three crucial blows, to sit on the driver's seat in Hyderabad.

Brief Scores:

Madhya Pradesh 465 (Harpreet Singh 216 not out; Imtiaz Ahmed 3/58) lead Uttar Pradesh 131/5 (Eklavya Dwivedi 37 not out; Gaurav Yadav 3/29) by 331 runs

No Pujara, no problem. There's Jaydev Shah

Group B

Jaydev Shah built on his solid start on the first day to amass 193, falling to Mahipal Lomror to take Saurashtra to a handsome first innings score of 430. Rajasthan got to play only 10 balls before stumps was called in Vizianagaram.

Brief Scores:

Saurashtra 430 (Jaydev Shah 193; Mahipal Lomror 2/16) lead Rajaasthan 12/0 (Manender Singh 12 not out) by 418 runs

Vidarbha on the march against Odisha

Vidarbha skipper Faiz Fazal led from the front with an unbeaten 76 on the second day to give his side a 32-run lead in the first innings with eight wickets still in hand. Shrikant Wagh and Akshay Wakhare scalped three wickets each to bundle Odisha out for 150.

Brief Scores:

Odisha 150 (Biplab Samantaray 53; Shrikant Wagh 3/13) trail Vidarbha 182/2 (Faiz Fazal 76 not out; Deepak Behera 1/20) by 32 runs.

Rishabh Pant, Nitish Rana put Delhi in control

Pressure did not get the better of young Indian hopeful Rishabh Pant, who counter-attacked in style with an entertaining knock to hand Delhi the advantage against Assam, who failed to take the initiative.

Brief Scores:

Assam 193 (Tarjinder Singh 61 not out; Pradeep Sangwan 3/47) trail Delhi 241/3 (Rishabh Pant 84 not out; Amit Verma 1/40) by 48 runs

Kaushal Singh's ton gives Jharkhand the lead

On a surface where most batsman struggled, Kaushal Singh cracked a fluent unbeaten hundred to take Jharkhand's first innings lead close to 100. Shahbaz Nadeem and skipper Varun Aaron gave Singh good support in the middle as the latter went about scoring the bulk of the runs.

Brief Scores:

Maharashra 210 (Ankit Bawne 78; Varun Aaron 4/47) trail Jharkhand 293/7 (Kaushal Singh 121; Anupam Sanklecha 3/60) by 83 runs.

Akshath Reddy's sterling ton gives Hyderabad the lead

After Mohammed Siraj helped Hyderabad bundle out Goa for a cheap score of 164, Akshath Reddy scored 105 out of the 188 runs his team scored. Hyderabad ended the day's play with a 24-run lead.

Brief Scores:

Goa 164 (Saurabh Bandekar 59; Mohammed Siraj 4/14) trail Hyderabad 188/4 (Akshath Reddy 105 not out; Rituraj Singh 2/35) by 24 runs

Match evenly poised at Brabourne Stadium

Vikas Yadav took three wickets but Haryana were only 80 runs behind Services at the end of day two with seven wickets in hand. Shubham Rohilla led from the front with a solid fifty.

Brief Scores:

Services 197 (Anshul Gupta 69, Shamsher Yadav 29 out out; Rajat Paliwal 3/14) lead Haryana 117/3 (Shubham Rohilla 62 not out) by 80 runs

Samson knocks on selectors' doors

Kerala's Sanju Samson posted a huge unbeaten hundred to yet again put himself in the reckoning of the India selectors, just days after the MSK Prasad-led selection panel stating that they considered the 21-year-old for the India-New Zealand One-dayers. Samiullah Beigh picked up four wickets for Jammu and Kashmir.

Brief Scores

Kerala 282/7 (Sanju Samson 142 not out; Samiullah Beigh 4/76) v Jammu and Kashmir

Verma's plunders Andhra attack

Sumeet Verma scored a breezy hundred against an Andhra attack who failed to take the initiative after reducing Himachal to 197/6.

Brief Scores:

Himachal Pradesh 318/7 (Prashant Chopra 117, Sumeet Verma 116 not out; D Siva Kumar 2/51) v Andhra

Chhattisgarh fight back

Tripura were shot out for 118 as Chhattisgarh's Kant Singh, Pratik Sinha and Ajay Mandal ran through the opposition batting order.

Brief Scores:

Chhattisgarh 255 (Ashutosh Singh 140; Abhijit Dey 4/26) & 10/0 lead Tripura 118 (Abhijit Dey 32; Ajay Mandal 3/41) by 127 runs