Ranji Trophy (Round 2, Day 3)

Hosts UP were looking down the barrel. After being shot out for 136, with Tamil Nadu's Ram Kumar picking up 6 for 47, UP were made to follow on.

UP follow on

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Lucknow: Hosts UP were looking down the barrel. After being shot out for 136, with Tamil Nadu's Ram Kumar picking up 6 for 47, UP were made to follow on. Tamil Nadu should wrap up the game, though the only constraint is time. But the way things went on Thursday, they should be clinical in dismissing UP.

Tamil Nadu 353

Uttar Pradesh 136 and 5 for no loss.

MP impress

Mumbai: Mumbai-MP match is turning out to be extremely close. After conceding a first-innings lead of 22 runs, Mumbai reduced MP to 13 for 4. However, MP had recovered to 99 for 5 at the draw of stumps.

MP 255 and 99 for 5

Mumbai 233 (A Agarkar 84, V Kambli 68, S Dholpure, 5 for 68, S Pandey 3 for 68)

Gujarat take lead

Bangalore: Gujarat surprised Karnataka by taking the first-innings lead, when they dismissed the hosts for 272 runs, taking a lead of 58 runs.

Gujarat 330 and 124 for 2 (A Christian 57, N Modi 44)

Karnataka 272 (B Rowland 59, S Joshi 54, V Naidu 34, L Patel 4 for 62, T Patel 3 for 93)

Assam in trouble

Amritsar: Assam were staring at a big defeat at the hands of Punjab when the stumps were drawn. After getting dismissed for 213, Assam were 146 for 7.

Punjab 422

Assam 213 (S Singh 59 n.o, Z Zuffri 52, S Saravanan 49, G Singh 6 for 41, N Singh 4 for 39) and 146 for 7 (S Saravanan batting 63, P Aziz 30, G Singh 3 for 25)

Maharashtra fine

Pune: Maharashtra were were 328 for 4 replying to Baroda’s 446.

Baroda 446

Maharashtra 328 for 4 (K Marathe 110, D Mohan batting 87)