In-form Tamil Nadu opener Abhinav Mukund struck a solid 96 as the hosts set a 308-run victory target for Himachal Pradesh on the penultimate day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Super League Group ‘A’ cricket match here on Tuesday.
Brief scores:
Group A: In Nagothane: Maharashtra: 219 all out in 77.4 overs and 129/4 in 38 overs (V More 27, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 50; Pradeep Sangwan 2-33) vs Delhi: 409 all out in 149.5 overs (Akash Chopra 73, Mithun Manhas 74, Rajat Bhatia 107, Mayank Tehlan 53; SN Fallah 3-106, S Agharkar 5-85).
In Jhalawar: Mumbai: 295 all out in 91.4 overs and 267/4 decl in 66 overs (Sahil Kukreja 73, Ajinkya Rahane 39, Rohit Sharma 34, Amol Muzumdar 68 n.o., Hiken Shah 25 n.o.; Shamsher Singh 2-85) vs Rajasthan: 179 all out in 89.5 overs (Rajesh Bishnoi 52, Nikhil Doru 52 n.o., Robin Bisht 30; Usman Malvi 2-48, Ramesh Powar 4-53) and 48/1 in 16 overs.
In Chennai: Tamil Nadu: 234 all out in 77 overs and 296/6 decl in 91 overs (Abhinav Mukund 96, S Badrinath 36, R Srinivasan 34, S Suresh Kumar 66 n.o.; Sarandeep Singh 3-78) vs Himachal Pradesh: 223 all out in 90 overs and 5/0 in 1.3 overs.
Group B: In Hyderabad: Andhra: 159 all out in 54.4 overs and 127 all out in 47.5 overs (Y Gnaneswara Rao 61, B Sumanth 28; SM Shoaib 2-23, MP Arjun 7-56) vs Hyderabad: 132 all out in 78.3 overs and 137/6 in 59 overs (Arjun Yadav 43, Anoop Pai 53; D Kalyankrishna 2-34, P Vijay Kumar 2-44).
In Amritsar: Punjab: 496/8 decl in 168 overs vs Baroda: 251/1 in 73 overs (Satyajit Parab 80, Connor Williams 106 n.o., A Bilakhia 47 n.o.).
In Siliguri: Bengal: 107 all out in 35 overs and 124 all out in 50.3 overs lt to Orissa: 99 all out in 38.4 overs and 137/4 in 48.4 overs (BS Pati 30, Rashmi Ranjan Parida 28, P Jayachandra 29 n.o.; Ranadeb Bose 2-32, A Dinda 2-33). Orissa 5 pts, Bengal 0.
Plate: Group A: In Surat: Gujarat: 154 all out in 65.3 overs and 259 all out in 79 overs (Parthiv Patel 74, DM Popat 59 n.o., J Desai 29, HA Majumdar 26; Tinu Yohannan 2-42, P Chandran 2-58; Sony K Cheruvathur 5-95) vs Kerala: 340 all out in 108.3 overs and 10/0.
In Guwahati: Tripura 460 all out in 145.1 overs vs Assam: 245/4 in 120 overs (PJ Das 104 n.o., M Talukdar 29, S Sharath 52 n.o.; TS Saha 2-66).
In Nagpur: Vidarbha:163 all out in 66.2 overs and 400/8 decl in 113.5 overs (FY Fazal 80, A Paunikar 102, Alind Naidu 102, SU Shrivastava 61 n.o., SR Singh 29; Pankaj Kumar 2-55; Rakesh Kumar 5-122) vs  Services: 91 all out  in 42.3 overs and 100/4 in 40 overs (Yashpal Singh 34 n.o.; M Hashim 2-39, Alind Naidu 2-14).
Group B: In Rohtak: Haryana: 302 all out in 104.1 overs and 75/7 in 35 overs (Sanjay Pandey 3-23, Sunil Dholpure 3-34) vs Madhya Pradesh: 215 all out in 103.1 overs (Naman Ojha 45, B Tomar 29, A Jadhav 25 n.o.; Amit Mishra 4-61, Gaurav Vashisht 2-22).
In Goa: Jammu & Kashmir: 147 all out in 59.5 overs vs Goa: 104/4 in 42.1 overs. No play on day three.
In New Delhi: Jharkhand: 183 all out in 72.5 overs and 131 all out in 46.4 overs (Sunny Gupta 33; Harvinder Singh 2-31, Sanjay Bangar 2-26, Santosh Saxena 3-29, Madan Yadav 2-23) lt to Railways: 361/4 decl in 102 overs (Amit Pagnis 33, Sanjay Bangar 121, H Rawle 98, Sanjib Sanyal 51 n.o.; SS Rao 2-71). Railways 6 pts, Jharkhand 0.