JOIN USSaurashtra have Shitanshu Kotak and Cheteshwar Pujara batting on 85 and 52 respectively at stumps.
The hosts suffered a jolt with opener Sagar Jogiyani falling to Samad Fallah cheaply for four at the stroke of half hour and that seemed their captain Jaydev Shah’s decision to bat first boomeranged.
But the other opener Chirag Pathak (90) and Kotak steadied the ship with a 127-run partnership for the second wicket before the former was out few minutes before tea.
Kotak and Pujara then remained unseparated till the draw of stumps, sharing 96 runs from 201 balls.
Pathak scored 90 off 178 which has 13 hits to the fence. Pujara hit four boundaries after facing 112 balls.
Brief scores: Group A: At Hyderabad: Hyderabad: 175/5 in 78 overs (Ambati Rayudu 60, Anirudh Singh 34 batting, Syed Quadri 51 batting; Siddharth Trivedi 4-30) vs Gujarat.
At Mumbai: Mumbai: 162 all out in 51.1 overs (Ajit Agarkar 45, Dhawal Kulkarni 28; Vikramjeet Malik 6-33, Sarandeep Singh 2-29) vs Himachal Pradesh: 100/3 in 36 overs (Bhavin Thakkar 48 batting, Sangram Singh 28; Harmeet Singh 2-17).
At Bhubaneswar: Railways:176/4 in 84 overs (Faiz Fazal 32, V Cheluvaraj 72 batting) vs Orissa.
At Amritsar: Punjab: 212/7 in 90 overs (Ravi Inder Singh 26, Chandan Madan 36, Pankaj Dharmani 74 batting, Gaurav Gambhir 28; V Yo Mahesh 2-60) vs Tamil Nadu.
Group B: At Rajkot: Saurashtra: 236/2 in 90 overs (Chirag Pathak 90, Sitanshu Kotak 85 batting, Cheteshwar Pujara 52 batting) vs Maharashtra.
At Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh vs Baroda. No play due to damp conditions.