A 122-run stand between Yere Goud and Shreyas Khanolkar saw Railways recover to 237 for eight against Tamil Nadu
Defending champions Railways could only manage a draw against Karnataka in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'A' match.
With the three-match T20I series ahead and also the World Cup round the corner, India will have to address this weakness to ensure that their much-vaunted batting doesn't crumble on an odd day when the condition aids swing bowling in England.
The bowlers dominated the second day of the West Zone vs Central Zone Duleep Trophy match with as many as 18 wickets falling on Saturday.
Amit Pagnis hit 142 and added 222 runs for the second wicket with Jyoti Yadav to help Central Zone post 299 for 3.
Man of the match Virat Kohli has said that it is the challenge of playing on tough pitches like the one at Eden Gardens brings the best out of him.
Railways ended day four on 362 for 8, to take a 408-run lead over Punjab in the Ranji Trophy final.
Central Zone tightened the noose around Bangladesh Cricket Board XI by bowling out the visitors for 146 in the first innings.
Railways nudged ahead of Delhi to Ranji Trophy semi-finals by scoring a seven-wicket win over Karnataka.
Rest of India meet Ranji champions Mumbai in the Irani Trophy match from September 18 to 22.
Tejinder Pal Singh played an important innings of 86 to take his team to 305 for nine against Bengal.
Punjab skipper Pankaj Dharmani's gritty century could not prevent Railways from taking the first innings lead on day 3 in the Ranji Trophy final.
They beat North Zone by nine wickets in a low-scoring five-day final that ended in under two-and a-half days.
All-rounder Sanjay Bangar, who had opened the innings for India in the last seven Tests, has been dropped.
Tons by Sridharan Sriram and Dinesh Karthik helped Tamil Nadu post 481 in their first innings against Railways on the second day of the Ranji Trophy semi-final.
Skipper Sanjay Bangar hit a brave 51 as the former champions were bowled out for 137 on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh.
The duo enabled North Zone gain a 95-run first innings lead over Central in the Duleep Trophy match.
The growing rift among the Board members of National Cricket Academy (NCA) came out in the open on Monday with a key functionary questioning the "restructuring policy" as well as the working procedure at the academy.
Electing to bat, India scored 329 for the loss of six wkts in 50 overs in the Kenstar Asian 'A' teams' tournament.
SL 'A' captain Russell Arnold expressed satisfaction at the way his side staged a comeback to win the match.
Replying to Mumbai's first innings total of 388, Railways were 103 for 3 at stumps on day 2 in the Ranji Trophy match.
Tejinder Pal's 168 and his second wicket partnership of 201 with Sanjay Bangar helped the side pile on 311 for four against Punjab.
Hemant Kumar's fine century enabled Kerala take a 23-run first innings lead over Railways on the penultimate day of the Ranj Trophy match.
At stumps on day three, Andhra were 72 for one in their second innings, still needing another 102 runs to make Railways bat again.
The star batsman will miss the first one-day international against New Zealand at Auckland due to a sprained ankle.
He was 51 and was in charge of BCCI's cricket operations till last month for nearly four years.
Dinesh Karthik, who gets another shot in the Indian ODI team, says that the No 4 position suits him best in the batting line-up.
Former Team India Director Ravi Shastri has applied for the chief coach's post of the Indian cricket team, staking strong claims of returning at the helm.
Just a few days after the BCCI invited applications for the vacant post of India senior men's team head coach through its website, chief selector Sandeep Patil has thrown his hat into the ring for the high-profile job. "I have just applied (for the post)," Patil told PTI.
The BCCI finally invited applications for the head coach of the Indian cricket team, on Wednesday, with the circular comprising a nine-point criteria including one stating a 'desire' to have a Hindi speaking coach.
The future of India's bowling coach Joe Dawes and fielding consultant Trevor Penny will be decided at the all-important Working Committee meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in Chennai on September 26.
Virat Kohli is the quintessential 'teacher's delight' but it is injury-prone Mohammed Shami, in his current fit avatar, that India's strength and conditioning coach Shankar Basu considers his biggest achievement since joining the team.
India captain Virat Kohli lauded his bowlers after their series-winning performance in the high-scoring third One-Day International, in Kanpur on Sunday.
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