Needing just 120 for victory, Tamil Nadu's march was briefly halted by a sudden rain when they were on 84 for two in 16.2 overs. But the play resumed after 33 minutes. Debutant medium-pacer Sunil Sam scalped four wickets (17-5-56-4) to contribute to TN's success.
Brief scores: Group A: At Delhi: Bengal: 473 all out in 148.5 overs and 92/3 in 30 overs (Arindham Das 36 n.o.; Shreevats Goswami 35; Chetanya Nanda 2-45) drew Delhi: 459 all out in 148.1 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 42, Virat Kohli 173, Mithun Manhas 43, Rajat Bhatia 65, Sumit Narwal 60; Ranadeep Bose 4-137, Ashok Dinda 4-132). At Mumbai: Mumbai: 580/9 decl in 151 overs and 207/2 in 63 overs (Wasim Jaffer 103 n.o.) drew Saurashtra: 374 all out in 129.5 overs (Chirag Pathak 47, Bhushan Chauhan 63, Ravindra Jadeja 40, Pratik Mehta 107, Rakesh Dhruv 49; Aavishkar Salvi 3-57, Ramesh Powar 5-109).
At Delhi: Gujarat: 379 all out in 150.2 overs drew Railways: 221 all out in 85 overs and 246/8 in 109 overs (V Cheluvaraj 73, Sanjay Bangar 51, Marripuri Suresh 37; Siddharth Trivedi 2-55, Ashraf Makda 2-53, Ishwar Choudhary 2-57, Salil Yadav 2-44).
At Chennai: Assam: 184 all out in 72.5 overs and 281 all out in 110 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 38, Sridharan Sriram 121, Tarjinder Singh 99; Lakshmipathi Balaji 2-23, R Ashwin 2-74, Sunil Sam 4-56) lt to Tamil Nadu: 346/8 decl in 120.1 overs and 123/3 in 25.2 overs (Abhinav Mukund 32, Srikkanth Anirudha 48, R Sathish 27 n.o.; Arlen Konwar 2-25).
Group B: At Dharmasala: Haryana: 316 all out in 136.5 overs and 249/5 decl in 67 overs (Nitin Saini 92, Sunny Singh 29, Manav Sharma 51 n.o.; Mohinderraj Sharma 3-60) drew Himachal Pradesh: 206 all out in 85.4 overs and 168/2 in 51.5 overs (Sangram Singh 89, Vinit Indulkar 62).
At Cuttack: Baroda: 148 all out in 57.5 overs and 414/6 in 117 overs (Connor Williams 57, Jaykishan Kolsawala 46, Ambati Rayudu 200 n.o.; Yusuf Pathan 27; Dhiraj Singh 3-109) drew Orissa: 352 all out in 118.2 overs. At Meerut: Punjab: 288 all out in 97.2 overs and 354/6 in 118.1 overs (Uday Kaul 74, Pankaj Dharmani 135 n.o., Vishwas Bhalla 76; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2-52, Piyush Chawla 2-78) drew Uttar Pradesh 362 all out in 117.3 overs.