Unmukt, Dhawan slam tons to put Delhi in control

The Delhi camp wore a mischievous smile on Saturday. Like an unexpected windfall, Tamil Nadu invited Delhi to bat and the hosts hungrily lapped up the offering as if making amends for a similar decision in their previous match against Baroda.

Expectedly, Delhi were off to a flourishing start through the centuries of skipper Shikhar Dhawan (104, 175b, 18x4) and Unmukt Chand,

The scorecard at the end of the day reflected Tamil Nadu’s plight. Chand was batting on 134 (228b, 16x4, 2x6) in the company of left-hander Mohit Sharma (40) with Delhi mustering 287/1 in 80 overs.

Brief scores: 

Group A: At Hyderabad: Mumbai: 325/2 in 90 overs (Hiken Shah 154 batting, Rohit Sharma 102 batting, Aditya Tare 62) vs Hyderabad.

At Mohali: Saurashtra: 90 all out in 27.1 overs (Sagar Jogiyani 41, Bhushan Chauhan 29; Sandeep Sharma 7-25, Siddharth Kaul 2-18) vs Punjab 125/5 in 52 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 61, Karan Goel 26; Sandip Maniar 2-8, Siddharth Trivedi 2-37).

At Bhubaneswar: Gujarat: 117 all out in 48.5 overs (Parthiv Patel 55; Sanjay Bangar 5-12, Hardik Rathod 3-47, Krishnakant Upadhayay 2-31) vs Railways: 145/2 in 38 overs (Amit Paunikar 85, Shivakant Shukla 34).

At Indore: Madhya Pradesh: 322/5 in 90 overs (Naman Ojha 99, Devendra Bundela 61, Udit Birla 50, Jalaj Saxena 44 batting, Rameez Khan 35 batting; Shami Ahmed 2-68) vs Bengal.

Group B:
At Nagpur: Maharashtra: 227/3 in 90 overs (Virag Awatae 111 batting, Sangram Dilip Attikar 45, Harshad Khadiwale 26; Sairaj Bahutule 2-55) vs Vidarbha.

At Delhi: Delhi: 287/1 in 80 overs (Unmukt Chand 134 batting, Shikhar Dhawan 104, Mohit Sharma 40 batting) vs Tamil Nadu.

At Rohtak: Haryana: 221/5 in 97 overs (Rahul Dalal 64 batting, Rahul Dewan 48, Sachin Rana 42, Sunny Singh 25; Murtuja Vahora 2-46, Utkarsh Patel 2-54) vs Baroda.

Group C: At Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir: 153 all out in 50.5 overs (Ram Dayal 31, Manish Dogra 30, Rohit Bhat 28; Syed Shahabuddin 5-53, Rajesh Pawar 2-24, Paidikalwa Vijayakumar 2-25) vs Andhra: 118/4 in 30 overs (Amol Muzumdar 60 batting, Bodapati Sumanth 41; Ram Dayal 2-26).

At Malappuram: Goa: 281/4 in 85 overs (Sagun Kamat 107, Manvinder Bisla 74, Ravikanth Shukla 44 batting) vs Kerala.

At Delhi: Assam: 182 all out in 78.3 overs (Tarjinder Singh 29, Pallavkumar Das 27, Rajdeep Das 26; Suraj Yadav 4-58, Yashpal Singh 2-10, Nishan Singh 2-34) vs Services: 11/0 in 5 overs.

At Ranchi: Jharkhand: 176/5 in 90 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 65 batting, Sunny Gupta 58 batting; Rishi Dhawan 3-32, Vikramjeet Malik 2-28) vs Himachal Pradesh..