Madhya Pradesh defeated Bihar by an innings and 174 runs on the back of a stunning 13-wicket haul from Saransh Jain. Baroda’s Priyanshu Moliya headlined the day’s play with a brilliant triple century, powering his team to 616 runs in the first innings. Karan Sharma helped UP recover from 67-4 with his unbeaten 162 as they finished the day at 328-9.

6-0 vs 616 (Priyanshu Moliya 321, Mahesh Pithiya 102)

407-8d (Saksham Purohit 132, Rajat Patidar 109) beat 99 (Mangal Mahrour 42, Saransh Jain 7-40) & 134 (Saransh Jain 6-49)

328-9 (Karan Sharma 162*, Sagar Udeshi 4-62) vs

217-3 (Dhruv Shorey 63*) vs 220 (Yash Kasvankar 63*, Darshan Misal 51, Nachiket Bhute 5-48)

Salil Arora’s 151-run knock took Punjab past the 400-run mark in the first innings. However, Hyderabad responded strongly, finishing the day at 193-2. Karnataka put up a solid batting display against Tripura to finish the day at 297-7, 103 runs ahead in the first innings. Meanwhile, Saurashtra are banking on Hetvik Kotak to notch up a big score in response to Assam’s 281.

216-8 (Amandeep Khare 74*) vs 231 (SV Rahul 89, Jayant Yadav 4-75)

193-2 (Abhirath Reddy 97, Rahul Radesh 72*) vs 431 (Salil Arora 151, Chama Milind 4-79)

297-7 (Rohan Patil 72, KV Aneesh 68, Karun Nair 63) vs 194 (Bikramkumar Das 51, Shikhar Shetty 5-54)

156-4 (Hetvik Kotak 65*) vs 281 (Denish Das 90, Sibsankar Roy 100, Jaydev Unadkat 3-50)

Shahbaz Ahmed starred with his all-round skills for Bengal. He helped his team post 350 runs after they started the day at 172-6 with a 121-run knock before picking up two wickets for just eight runs against Kerala. Mohammed Shami also scalped three wickets to reduce Kerala to 101-6 at stumps.

Ayush Badoni led from the front for Delhi, slamming his second consecutive double-century. On the back of his knock, Delhi posted 515 runs before declaring their innings and then reduced Jharkhand to 131-4.

131-4 (Utkarsh Singh 53*) vs 515-5d (Ayush Badoni 210*, Sumit Mathur 150*) vs Jharkhand

13-0 vs 194 (Swastik Samal 39, Pulkit Narang 6-47)

101-6 (Vishnu Vinod 41, 3-20, Shahbaz Ahmed 2-8) vs 350 (Shahbaz Ahmed 121, Aditya Sarvate 4-95)

278-9 (Saurabh Nawale 95, Siddharth Desai 3-40) vs 223 (Abhishek Desai 79, Siddhesh Veer 4-20)

Nehal Pajni was the star of the day for Chandigarh as he smashed a double century, powering his team to 685 in the first innings before declaring. Mumbai lost their remaining seven wickets for 140 runs on the second day to get bundled out for 430 in the first innings. Haryana finished the day at 108-2 in response and need a solid effort to take a lead.

powered Tamil Nadu’s comeback against Railways after conceding a 19-run lead in a low-scoring affair. Railways have only one wicket in hand with a total lead of only 126 runs in the second innings. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand were bowled out for 194 in response to Rajasthan’s 272 in the first innings.

49-0 vs 685-5d (Nehal Pajni 222, Arjun Azad 147)

108-2 vs 430 (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 114, Musheer Khan 109)

184 (Zubair Ali 75, Sonu Yadav 3-46) & 107-9 (Sai Kishore 4-38) vs 165 (Baba Indrajith 59, Raj Choudhury 5-41)

272 (Kartik Sharma 73, Devendra Bora 6-72) & 39-1 vs 194 (Kookna Ajay Singh 5-66)

Ajay Duhan was the star of the day in the Plate Group as he notched up a brilliant double century against Mizoram. Meghalaya skipper Kishan Lyngdoh was unlucky to miss out on his double ton as he was run out on 198.

Manipur are dominating the proceedings against Arunachal Pradesh after gaining a massive lead of 253 runs in the first innings. In the other game, Nagaland are leading by 49 runs in the second innings with six wickets in hand against Sikkim.

187 (Joshua Ozukum 59, Ankur Malik 3-23, Abishek Kumar 3-29) & 46-4 vs 184 (Leeyong Lepcha 43, Imliwati Lemtur 5-40)

111 (Ajay Singh 4-27) & 95-2 vs 364 (Jotin Pheiroijam 166, Likha Sonia 4-56)

99-2 (Lalhruaizela 51) vs 562 (Ajay Duhan 239, Kishan Lyngdoh 198)

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