Praveen, Chawla put Uttar Pradesh in command

After piling up 536 in the first innings, Uttar Pradesh bundled out the visitors for 202 and then left them struggling at 104 for two in their second essay.

Brief scores: Group B: At Kol-kata: Saurashtra: 650/9 declare vs Bengal: 319/2 in 98 overs (Arindam Das 136 n.o., Deep Dasgupta 61, Manoj Tiwary 102 n.o.). Group A: At Hyderabad: Orissa: 276 and  159/4 in 62 overs (Bakis Pati 36, Shiv Sunder S Das 30, Rakesh Mohanty 28 n.o, Pravanjan Mullick 35; Mohammed Khader 2-43) vs Hyderabad: 199 all out in 83.3 (Anirudh Singh 45, Munagala Praneet Arjun 38, Alfred Absolem 26; Debasis Mohanty 4-48, Basanth Mohanty 3-34, Alok Chandra Sahoo 2-56). At Dharamsala: Tamil Nadu: 293/8 decl. and 199/5 in 57 overs (Srikkanth Anirudha 72, Abhinav Mukund 27, Subramaniam Badrinath 41 n.o.; Vikramjeet Malik 3-37) vs Himachal Pradesh: 366 all out in 113.1 overs (Bhavin Thakkar 83, Vinit Indulkar 71, Mukesh Sharma 78, Kuldeep Diwan 31; Lakshmipathi Balaji 2-88, Chandrasekar Ganapathy 2-58, Yo Mahesh 3-58, Ravichandran Ashwin 2-60). At Chandigarh: Gujarat: 160 and 227/7 in 62 overs (Bhavik Thaker 31, Rujul Bhatt 93 n.o.; Harmeet Singh 2-28, Manpreet Singh Gony 3-87) vs Punjab: 444 all out in 149.5 overs (Ravi Inder Singh 35, Rahul Sharma 95, Taruwar Kohli 118, Pankaj Dharmani 38, Sunny Sohal 59; Siddharth Trivedi 2-65, Mehul Patel 2-129, Silil Yadav 6-123). At Delhi: Railways: 187 and 174/7 in 77 overs (Faiz Fazal 42, Sanjib Sanyal 40, Marripuri Suresh 29 n.o.; Iqbal Abdulla 2-55, Harmeet Singh 3-25) vs Mumbai: 284 all out. At Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh: 536/7 decl. vs Delhi: 202 and 104/2 in 28 overs (Puneet Bisht 37 n.o. Virat Kohli 61 n.o.).