Jadeja triple ton propels Saurashtra

 Jadeja, who was unbeaten at 141 overnight, steered his team virtually singlehandedly to a formidable total of 545 runs with his majestic 314 which came off 375 balls.

Apart from Jadeja, Bhushan Chauhan scored 83 off 171 balls with the help of 15 boundaries, while Pratik Mehta made 39 striking six hits to the fence.

In reply, Orissa scored 51 for no loss when stumps were drawn on the second day’s play with Bikash Pati (34) and Natraj Behera at (17) at the crease.

Brief scores: Elite League: Group A: At Mohali: Punjab: 350 all out in 104.5 overs (Mandeep Singh 178 n.o., Karan Goel 68, Mayank Sidhana 37; RP Singh 5/72, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 4/82) vs Uttar Pradesh: 221/3 in 66 overs (Tanmay Srivastav 62, Mohamamd Kaif 65, Parvinder Singh 57 n.o.).

At Cuttack: Saurashtra: 545 all out in 159.3 overs (Ravindra Jadeja 314, Bhushan Chauhan 83; Basant Mohanty 4/86) vs Orissa: 51 for no loss in 18 overs (Bikas Pati 34 n.o.).

At Delhi: Mumbai: 483 all out in 141.3 overs (Rohit Sharma 175, Suryakumar Yadav 88, Ankeet Chavan 44; Shreyas Khanolkar 5/78) vs Railways: 66/3 in 23 overs (Shivkant Shukla 31; Ramesh Powar 2/18). Group B: At Kolkata: Bengal 560/6 decl in 172 overs (Manoj Tiwary 132, Wriddhiman Saha 167 n.o., Laxmi Ratan Shukla 78, Saurashish Lahiri 71 n.o.) vs Gujarat: 10 for no loss in 6 overs.

At Delhi: Haryana: 293 all out in 96.5As overs (Sachin Rana 80, Abhimanyu Khod 68, Sunny Singh 51; Pradeep Sangwan 5/67, Parvinder Awana 3/95) vs Delhi: 214/3 in 73 overs (Milind Kumar 84 n.o., Rajat Bhatia 57 n.o.).

At Chennai: Tamil Nadu vs Baroda: After a washed out opening day, the second day of the match too was abandoned without a ball being balled after persistent rain.

Plate League: Group A: At Delhi: Andhra (O/n  206/7 in 90 overs): 219 all out in 99.1 overs (Bodapati Sumanth 70, AG Pradeep 80; Suraj Yadav 4-46, Nishan Singh 4-59) and 31/1 in 10 overs vs Services: 95 all out in 61 overs (Soumyaranjan Swain 37; Syed Sahabuddin 5-21, Paidikalva Vijaykumar 2-32, Shankara Rao 2-14).

At Agartala: Himachal Pradesh (O/n: 347/2 in 90 overs): 531 all out in 138.4 overs (Abhinav Bali 122, Paras Dogra 205, Sridharan Sriram 54, Ajay Ratra 39, Rishi Dhawan 55; Timir Chanda 8-133) vs Tripura: 91/1 in 37 overs (Rajib Saha 33, Subharajit Roy 39).

At Nagpur: Vidarbha (O/n: 274/4 in 90 overs): 557/7 decl in 171 overs (Aniruddha Chore 28, Shiv Sundar Das 30, Shalabh Shrivastava 104, Hemang Badani 32, Ranjit Paradkar 178 n.o., Sairaj Bahutule 61; Padmanabhan Prasanth 5-106) vs Kerala: 24 for no loss in 7 overs.

Group B: Brief scores: At Porvorim: Maharashtra (O/n: 286/4 in 90 overs): 443 all out on 148 overs (Sangram Atitkar 52, Nikhil Paradkar 67, Ankit Bawne 67, Rohit Motwani 91, Kedar Jadhav 45, Shrikanth Mundhe 41; Robin D’Souza 5-94) vs Goa: 48/2 in 24 overs.
At Uppal: Hyderabad (O/n: 129/1 in 41 overs): 373/7 in 139 overs (Akshath Reddy 61, DB Ravi Teja 70, Bavanaka Sandeep 61, Arjun Yadav 43, Syed Quadri 77 n.o.; Shahbaz Nadeem 3-126) vs Jharkhand.

At Srinagar: Assam (O/n: 297/4 in 90 overs): vs Jammu & Kashmir. No play was possible on second day.