Robin Uthappa and rookie Kunal Kapoor hit centuries as Karnataka batted out the whole of final day to manage a point against Haryana in their penultimate Ranji Trophy group league encounter in Hubli.
Courtesy of Wasim Jaffer's brisk knock of 67 laced with 13 fours and Aditya Tare's quickfire 42 off 44 balls, after being promoted to open the innings, Mumbai finished the day on192 for five in 63 overs.
Struggling India spinner regained some of the lost touch with a three-wicket haul as Punjab restricted Gujarat to 261 for nine on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match, Valsad on Saturday.
Kedar Devdhar scored only his second ton in first class cricket and together with Aditya Waghmode shared an unbroken century stand to guide Baroda to 256 for three on the opening day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Group B match against Maharashtra in Pune on Saturday.
Skipper Devendra Bundela scored an unbeaten 92 while opener Jalaj Saxena struck a fluent half-century to help Madhya Pradesh post 281 for five against Punjab on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match in Gwalior on Saturday.
Baroda humiliated Odisha by 10 wickets, with a day to spare, and pocketed seven points, including bonus, from their Ranji Trophy Group B match, in Vadodara, on Monday. The hosts added just 11 runs to their overnight total before being dismissed for 301 in their first innings, in reply to Odisha's 181.
Captain Ian Dev Singh led from the front with an unbeaten 117 before Kerala left-arm pacer Chovvakkaran Shahid scalped eight wickets to bowl out Jammu and Kashmir for 215 in their first innings.
Services skipper Soumik Chatterjee slammed a century while Yashpal Singh hit an unbeaten 92 to take Services to 284 for four on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group C match against Goa in Porvorim on Saturday.
Gujarat posted a mammoth 566 in their first innings after skipper Parthiv Patel and Manprit Juneja struck hundreds to give the hosts an overwhelming upperhand against Hyderabad in their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Valsad on Sunday.
Utkarsh Patel and Bhargav Bhatt held their nerves under tremendous pressure to lead Baroda to a thrilling one-wicket win over Haryana in their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Rohtak.
Govind Podder (51) crafted a patient half-century and Deepak Behera a crucial unbeaten 35 under pressure to lead Odisha to a four-wicket win over Haryana in their Ranji Trophy Group B match, in Rohtak, on Tuesday.
Anshul Gupta and Yashpal Singh scored unbeaten centuries to guide Services to 277 for three against Tripura at stumps on the opening day of their third round Ranji Trophy Group C match.
Stand-in captain Ambati Rayudu led from the front with an impressive half-century as Baroda ended the first day's play at a comfortable 252 for three against Delhi in the third round Ranji Trophy Group B encounter.
Hosts Baroda pocketed three valuable points by virtue of the first innings lead after their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Vidarbha ended in a tame draw in Vadodara.
Kedar Jadhav blasted an unbeaten run-a-ball century as Maharashtra produced a powerful batting display to post 339 for 3 against Uttar Pradesh on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy Group B match, in Pune, on Friday. Jadhav (102) hit as many as 20 boundaries in his 102-ball innings, while Harshad Khadiwale (68) and Sangram Atitkar (80) laid the foundation with brilliant half-centuries.
Bengal thumped Rajasthan by an innings and 62 runs to enter the semi-final of the Ranji Trophy.
A brilliant 107 by Virender Sehwag dispelled doubts about his finger injury but favourites Delhi suffered the ignominy of a six-wicket defeat against a determined Uttar Pradesh in a thrilling Ranji Trophy Group B match in Ghaziabad.
Rajat Paliwal top-scored with 72 as Services laboured to 256 for eight on day 2 of their Ranji Trophy Group C match against Andhra.
Cheteshwar Pujara surpassed Vijay Merchant's record for the most double hundreds by an Indian in first-class cricket -- a record that stood for almost 70 years. A roundup of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches on Thursday.
Chasing a tough victory target of 399, Punjab were tottering at 108 for four at stumps on the third day with Test discard Yuvraj Singh unbeaten on 19 in company of Uday Kaul, who is yet to open his account.
A round-up of results of Ranji matches played on Sunday
Pacer Ishwar Pandey stole the limelight with his second five-wicket haul of the match as Madhya Pradesh scored a thumping 138-run win over Bengal on the final day of their Ranji Trophy group league match in Indore.
Jaffer took to Twitter to vent out his frustration.
Skipper Parthiv Patel (101) scored a fighting century to help Gujarat score a modest 244 against Mumbai in their final Ranji Trophy Group A match in Mumbai.
Deepak Behera took a six-wicket haul as Odisha bundled out Uttar Pradesh for a meagre 160 and then themselves slumped to 70 for five on the opening day of their last Ranji Trophy Group B league match, in Cuttack on Saturday.
Maharashtra earned three vital points by vitue of a handy 87 runs first innings lead after their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Baroda ended in a draw in Pune.
Zaheer Khan's incisive spell helped Mumbai pull off a stunning seven-run win over Madhya Pradesh in what turned out to be the most interesting Ranji Trophy group league encounter of this season in Indore.
Skipper Amit Mishra struck an unbeaten 86 and added 125 runs for the unbeaten seventh wicket stand with Jayant Yadav as Haryana ended the first day's play of the Ranji Trophy Group B league encounter against Karnataka at 293 for seven.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Wednesday
Skipper Devendra Bundela scored an unbeaten century and shared a match-winning 185-run stand with Jalaj Saxena (72 not out) as Madhya Pradesh spanked Punjab by eight wickets in their Ranji Trophy Group A match, in Gwalior on Tuesday. Chasing a 190-run target, Madhya Pradesh overcame two early jolts to get the required runs in 45.3 overs.
Tail-enders Murtuza Vahora and Bhargav Bhatt defied all the odds to put up a 63-run stand for the final wicket as Baroda reached 191 for nine at stumps against a formidable Tamil Nadu side in the Ranji Trophy group league encounter in Vadodara on Saturday.
Left-handed opener Shivakant Shukla scored the fifth first-class century of his career as Railways reached 239 for four at stumps against Rajasthan on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy group league encounter.
Riding on an unbeaten century from opener Aditya Tare Mumbai reached a massive 306 for two against Saurashtra at the end of the first day's play of their Ranji Trophy Group A match in Rajkot.
Mohit Sharma took five for 47 to help Haryana bundle out Uttar Pradesh for a meagre 227 in their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Lucknow.
A spirited team effort by Karnataka saw them defeat Delhi by a whopping 159-run margin despite conceding the first innings lead in a Ranji Trophy group league encounter at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Tuesday. Starting the day at 40 for 3, Delhi were all out for 250 in 81.5 overs, nine of the 10 wickets being claimed by the home team's seamers.
Ravindra Jadeja finished with a match-haul of eight wickets as Saurashtra thrashed Bengal by 270 runs in a Ranji Trophy group league encounter in Rajkot and kept their chance of qualifying for the knock-out stage alive.
A resolute hundred by Mahesh Rawat, and PM Madkaikar's half-century, helped Railways escape defeat against Madhya Pradesh and earn a point in their Ranji Trophy Group A encounter, which ended in a draw on the fourth and final day, in Bhubaneshwar, on Tuesday.
Punjab earned three crucial points against Mumbai by virtue of their 95-run first innings lead on a dramatic final day in the Ranji Trophy Group A match in Mumbai on Tuesday. The match ended in a draw, but not without some drama on the final day of the four-day match that saw close to 20 wickets falling at the Wankhede stadium.
Maharashtra had to be content with three points by virtue of the first innings lead after the home team failed to secure an innings victory over struggling Haryana in a Ranji Trophy Group B match in Pune on Tuesday.
Former India players Pragyan Ojha and Ashok Dinda were on Saturday involved in an ugly feud ahead of Bengal's Ranji Trophy group league encounter against Tamil Nadu in Rajkot and both nearly came to exchanging blows during the training session. Both players are important in Bengal's scheme of things and the team management, which includes skipper Manoj Tiwary, coach Sairaj Bahutule and manager Sameer Dasgupta, spoke to them and conveyed that this behaviour was unexpected.
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