The Group A of the Ranji Trophy had outright victories in round four, with Vidarbha beating Madhya Pradesh by an innings and 20 runs, and Goa smashing Bihar by an innings and 177 runs.

Adarsh Singh (162) and Madhav Kaushik (137) powered Uttar Pradesh to 492 before Chennai Super Kings youngster Prashant Veer took 3-42, although they had to settle for a draw. After Jammu & Kashmir piled on 555-6 and took a 170-run lead, Pondicherry managed to hold onto a draw thanks to Ankit Sharma’s 62.

• 397 (Snehal Kauthankar 178*) beat 107 (Vasuki Koushik 3-12) & 113 f/o (Lalit Yadav 5-23)
• 385 (Sunil Kumar 6-98) & 269-6 (Ankit Sharma 62) drew 555-6 dec (Shubham Khajuria 190, Qamran Iqbal 160)
• 355 (Kartik Yadav 5-104) & 169-6 (Prashant Veer 3-42) drew 492 (Adarsh Singh 162, Madhav Kaushik 137, Mahesh Pithiya 5-112)
• 334-9 (Akshay Wadkar 100*) beat 209 & 105 (Parth Rekhade 5-14, Harsh Dubey 5-37)

From Group B, Tripura pulled off a historic win over one of the top domestic teams Saurashtra, with Sandip Sarkar picking up four for 81 in the second innings. Hyderabad also recorded a thrilling win against Chhattisgarh, chasing down 259 runs with one wicket to spare. They were 220-9 at one stage, after which Aniketh Reddy made an unbeaten 39 to seal the victory.

Andhra forced a draw against Punjab after reaching 505-8 in response to Punjab's 592-9, with Shaik Rasheed finishing his innings on 176 and Kirdant Karan Shinde falling four short of a century.

• 577-6 dec (KV Aneesh 145) beat 135 & 128 (Shreyas Gopal 4-39)
• 268 (Parth Bhut 5-65) & 191 beat 118 (Parvez Sultan 5-25) & 208 (Sandip Sarkar 4-81)
• 280 & 259-9 (Abhirath Reddy 68, Aniketh Reddy 39*) beat 284 & 254 (Mayank Verma 81)
• 592-9 dec (Sanvir Singh 205) drew 505-8 (Shaik Rasheed 176, Kirdant Karan Shinde 96)

Pradeep Dadhe and Hitesh Walunj tag teamed on the final day to skittle out Bengal for 186, after which Maharashtra openers chased down 110 with ease to clinch a 10-wicket victory. Services and Delhi settled for a draw after the former posted 397-9 in their second innings. Yash Dhull smashed a run-a-ball 104 not out before they shook hands.

After Urvil Patel scored an unbeaten 210, Arzan Nagwaswalla bagged 4-59 & 4-24 across two innings as Gujarat hammered Kerala by an innings and 58 runs. With rain washing away chunks of overs, Jharkhand had to settle for a draw against Odisha, who reached 280-7 on the final day.

• 218 (Tanay Sanghavi 60, Mohammed Shami 4-37) & 110-0 beat 143 & 186 (Abhishek Porel 65, Pradeep Dadhe 4-48, Hitesh Walunj 4-53)
• 433-8 (Aditya Singh 104, Robin Minz 100, Anukul Roy 89) drew 280-7
• 266 & 397-9 dec (Mohit Ahlawat 142) drew 344 (Sumit Mathur 99, Jayant Goyat 5-65) & 168-4
• 534-9 dec (Urvil Patel 210*, Vishal Jayswal 50*) beat 279 (Vishnu Vinod 66, Arzan Nagwaswalla 4-59) & 197 f/o (Arzan Nagwaswalla 4-24)

Pukhraj Mann scored a magnificent 153 not out on the final day to help Himachal Pradesh draw against Rajasthan. Tamil Nadu needed three wickets to win heading into the final day, and Ajith Ram did it all by himself, finishing with 7 for 48.

Shams Mulani bagged 4 for 69 on the final day while Tanush Kotian ended with nine wickets in the match as Mumbai defeated Railways by 106 runs.

• 571-7 dec (Pradosh Paul 208, Sriram Ajith Ram 115*) beat 94 (Sonu Yadav 4-18) & 218 (Ajith Ram 7-48)
• 78 & 521-8 dec (Rohan Rajbhar 140, Mahipal Lomror 97) drew 153 & 313-7 (Pukhraj Mann 153*)
• 396 (Shams Mulani 71, Himanshu Sangwan 4-88) & 234-4 (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 79) beat 259 (Tanush Kotian 7-45) & 265 (Shams Mulani 4-69)
• 305 (Dega Nischal 153, Nishant Sindhu 5-89) & 9-0 beat 153 & 159 (Jagadeesha Suchith 4-50)

All three games in the Plate group had results. Satyajeet Bachhav, who took 6-50 in the first innings, snared 7-33 in the second to help Sikkim beat Manipur by 201 runs. Nagaland defeated Meghalaya by 122 runs bowling them out for 172 in the second innings. Following Chinmay Sutar’s 175 in the first innings, Bobby Zothansanga starred for Mizoram in the second innings with a five-wicket haul as they beat Arunachal by an innings and 29 runs.

• 254 & 184 (Dippu Sangma 3-17, Swarajeet Das 3-36) beat 144 (Anil Gupta 4-50) & 172
• 432 & 216-1 dec beat 289 (Jotin Pheiroijam 137, Satyajeet Bachhav 6-50) & 158 (Satyajeet Bachhav 7-33)
• 571-9 dec (Chinmay Sutar 135*) beat 285 & 257 (Bobby Zothansanga 5-104).

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