A timely and superb century plus score by Tamil Nadu captain S Badrinath (138, 16x4, 2x6) helped the hosts end the first day’s play on 302 for three to take the upper hand against lowly Rajasthan in the sixth Ranji Trophy Super league cricket match here on Monday.

Briefscores: Super League:

Group A: At Chennai: TN: 302/3 in 81.4 overs (Vijay 112 batting, Badrinath 138) vs Rajasthan.

At Nagothane: Maharashtra: 136 all out in 54.4 overs (HH Khadiwale 29, SV Bahutule 46; SP Jobanputra 4-27, RA Jadeja 4-49) vs Saurashtra: 73/2 in 33 overs (SH Kotak 27 batting, CA Pujara 31 batting; SM Fallah 2-7).

At Dharamsala:  Mumbai: 324/9 in 90 overs (AM Rahane 37, VA Indulkar 37, AA Muzumdar 90, VR Samant 31 batting, I Abdulla 32 batting; AK Thakur 4-99, Sarandeep Singh 2-68) vs Himachal Pradesh.

Group B: At Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh: 214/4 in 90 overs (LNP Reddy 67, Y Gnaneswara Rao 57 batting, AG Pradeep 30) vs Baroda.

At Kolkata: Bengal: 149 all out in 58.4 overs (SS Lahiri 40 n.o; P Kumar 3-51, B Kumar 3-25, Piyush Chawla 3-29) vs  Uttar Pradesh: 128/2 in 31 overs (RP Srivastava 58, SK Raina 55 n.o.; SS Paul 2-25).

At Mohali: Orissa: 273/8 in 86 overs (RR Parida 52, P Jayachandra 36, H Das 100; Gagandeep Singh 3-37, S Kaul 4-58) vs Punjab.