Railways bowlers break Delhi hold

If the first couple of sessions belonged to Delhi seamer Sumit Narwal -- who returned with career-best figures of seven for 43 to dismiss Railways for 166, it was Railways’ new-ball bowler Anureet Singh who kept his team’s chances alive with an incisive spell in the last session to remove Shikhar (14), Mayank Tehlan (6) and Unmukt Chand (22). Aditya Jain (2) was dismissed by veteran Jai Prakash Yadav. However, it was Narwal who got into the act straightaway. Dismissing openers Faiz Fazal and Shreyas Khanolkar in his first two overs.

Brief scores: Group A: In Delhi: Railways: 259 all out in 80 overs and 166 all out in 61 overs (Sanjay Bangar 67, Mahesh Rawat 50; Sumit Narwal 7-43) vs Delhi: 290 all out in 96.5 overs and 48/4 in 21 overs (Anureet Singh 3-24).

In Rajkot: Saurashtra: 423 all out in 164 overs vs Bengal: 295/5 in 104 overs (Shreevats Goswami 49, Dibyendu Chakrabarty 80, Manoj Tiwary 116 n.o.; Saurya Sanandiya 3-41).

In Chennai: Mumbai: 238 all out in 82.5 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 49, Wasim Jaffer 67, Prashant Naik 33 n.o.; Lakshmipathi Balaji 4-32, S Suresh Kumar 4-44) vs Tamil Nadu: 149/4 in 56 overs (S Badrinath 51; Iqbal Abdulla 2-36).

In Guwahati: Gujarat: 387 all out in 140.1 overs (Rikin Chauhan 46, Niraj Patel 76, Bhavik Thaker 65, Sunny Patel 108; Abu Nechim Ahmed 3-108, Ranjitkumar Mali 2-58, Arien Konwar 3-87) vs Assam: 108/3 in 48 overs (Sibsankar Roy 39; Amol Muzumdar 35 n.o.).

Group B: In Rohtak: Punjab: 415 all out in 125.5 overs and 144/3 in 43 overs (Sarul Kanwar 26, Mandeep Singh 73 n.o., Uday Kaul 31 n.o.) vs Haryana: 270 all out in 86.1 overs (Ankit Rawat 32, Hemang Badani 33, Sachin Rana 102, Dhruv Singh 30 n.o.; Manpreet Singh Gony 4-72, Jaskaran Singh 3-66).

In Cuttack: Himachal Pradesh: 163 all ou tin 64.4 overs (Paras Dogra 53 n.o., Rishi Dhawan 43; Debasish Mohanty 2-48, Basanth Mohanty 4-43, Alok Chandra Sahoo 2-32) vs Orissa.