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Manvanth Kumar continued his dream run with another century, while Aneeshwar Gautam added 83, leaving Karnataka with an enormous 442-run lead. Assam\u2019s Denish Das was the only to manage a fifty, as they succumbed to an innings and 314-run loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n Delhi\u2019s in-form batter Sumit Mathur, who had posted a steady recovery alongside Ayush Dodeja against Services overnight, fell one short of a century. In response, Mohit Ahlawat (142) put Services in a strong position<\/a>, supported by fifties from Ravi Chauhan and captain Rajat Paliwal.<\/p>\n Captain Vishnu Vinod top-scored with 66, but couldn\u2019t prevent Kerala from following-on against Gujarat<\/a>. Keeper Mohammed Azharuddeen and Aditya Sarvate struck half-centuries as well.<\/p>\n Rajasthan captain Kartik Sharma hit 63 to further strengthen their lead against Himachal Pradesh, before a brisk 86 from Kunal Rathore and a fifty from Vishal Harish put them in prime position at the end of day three.<\/a><\/p>\n Centuries by Aditya Singh and Robin Minz, coupled with Anukul Roy’s 89 and Shubh Sharma’s rapid 58 from No.8 gave Jharkhand a mammoth lead versus Odisha.<\/a><\/p>\n Chattisgarh keeper Mayank Verma struck a crucial 81 to ensure they had enough to challenge Hyderabad in the fourth innings. Aside from Sanjeet Desai (51), no other batter crossed 20, until No.11 Dharmendrasinh Jadeja chipped in with a vital 37-ball 38.<\/p>\n J&K openers Shubham Khajuria (190) and Qamran Iqbal (160) capitalised on their strong start to put on a mammoth 334-run first-wicket stand. Despite a slight stutter, they still enjoy a commanding position<\/a>, ending the day on 491\/5 against Puducherry.<\/p>\n After Punjab declared on 592\/9, Andhra\u2019s response<\/a> was led by Shaik Rasheed, who struck his sixth first-class century, forging an unbeaten 169-run stand with Karan Shinde (73).<\/p>\n Mumbai openers Divyaansh Saxena and Angkrish Raghuvanshi put on a 146-run stand, before they lost four wickets for 17 runs. At stumps, their lead stood at 311 runs.<\/a><\/p>\n The day\u2019s streak of strong opening stands was followed by UP\u2019s Adarsh Singh and Madhav Kaushik as well. The two put on a triple-century partnership, and No.3 Aryan Juyal added to it with 67, but the innings trailed off in the second half. At stumps, they stood at 455\/8 against Baroda<\/a>.<\/p>\n Manipur\u2019s 20-year-old all-rounder Jotin Pheiroijam struck 137 from No.6, stabilising them against Sikkim. Yet, they ended the day 224 runs behind Sikkim, who ended the day on 81\/0.<\/a><\/p>\n Chinmay Sutar top-scored for Mizoram with 175, putting them in the driver\u2019s seat against Arunachal Pradesh with a 286-run first-innings lead.<\/a><\/p>\n Best bowling performances<\/p>\n Brothers Mohammed Shami (4 for 37) and Kaif (2-36) ran through Maharashtra in the second innings, before Shahbaz Ahmed cleaned up the tail after lower-order resistance. Maharashtra still recovered from 64\/6 to post 218. Bengal were reduced to 76\/4 in the second innings, leading by a run.<\/a><\/p>\n Shreyas Gopal (4 for 34) and Shikhar Shetty (3 for 33) headlined Karnataka\u2019s huge innings win, combining to dismiss them for another sub-150 total.<\/p>\n Goa also inflicted an innings defeat on Bihar,<\/a> led by a five-fer by Lalit Yadav. Yash Kasvankar assisted him with three wickets. Bihar\u2019s poor batting mirrored their first innings performance, as they managed 107 and 113 across the two innings.<\/p>\n Tamil Nadu’s Ajith Ram, who hit a century in the first innings, troubled Chandigarh with the ball as well, taking four out of the seven wickets to fall while following-on<\/a>. Earlier, Sonu Yadav had finished with 4 for 18 to bundle them out for 94 in the first innings.<\/p>\n Arzan Nagwaswalla and Chintan Gaja combined to take seven wickets, forcing Kerala to follow-on in the face of an imposing first-innings total by Gujarat.<\/p>\n Hyderabad\u2019s Rakshan Readdi and Gangam Anikethreddy shared six wickets between them, helping keep Chattisgarh\u2019s lead in check. Dev Aditya Singh then took two quick wickets to leave Hyderabad at 13\/2, setting up an interesting chase that still needs 246 runs.<\/a><\/p>\n After taking an eight-fer against Haryana, Mumbai’s Tanush Kotian continued to take wickets in bucketloads, running through Railways with 7 for 45.<\/a><\/p>\n A fast-moving game hangs heavily in Tripura\u2019s favour, despite them being all out for 191 in the second innings. Parvez Sultan took 5 for 25, while off-spinner Sandip Sarkar, who took 4 for 48 in the first innings, added a further four. Saurashtra still need 211 to win<\/a> with just three wickets in hand. <\/p>\n Mahesh Pithiya\u2019s five-fer helped Baroda claw back against UP: from 309\/0, they went down to 397\/5, losing three more wickets by Stumps.<\/p>\n Vidarbha\u2019s spin pair of Harsh Dubey and Parth Rekhade cut through Madhya Pradesh, leaving nothing for the rest of the bowlers. They took five each, as MP were shot out for 105, handing Vidarbha an innings win.<\/a><\/p>\n Nishant Sindhu\u2019s five-fer, and Kanishk Chouhan\u2019s four ignited a dramatic Uttarakhand collapse: they slid from 223\/1 to 305 all out. However, Haryana could only follow up their first-innings total of 153 with 159. It left Uttarakhand with just nine runs to chase, securing a ten-wicket win.<\/a><\/p>\n Sikkim\u2019s left-arm spinner Satyajeet Bachhav claimed six for 50, ensuring a comfortable lead over Manipur going into the final day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best batting performances Manvanth Kumar continued his dream run with another century, while Aneeshwar Gautam added 83, leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,260943,270527,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-824560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-ranji-trophy-elite-2026-27","tag-ranji-trophy-plate-2026-27","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}