Faiz Fazal's ton leads Vidarbha's reply

A century from captain Faiz Fazal and a fifty from Wasim Jaffer led Vidarbha's reply to Chhattisgarh's 489 in Nagpur.

Fazal added 105 to his overnight score of 20, before being dismissed by legspinner Jatin Saxena. Fazal's 12th first-class hundred contained 19 fours and a six. He added 114 with Jaffer, who struck seven fours during his 104-ball 50. Shrikant Wagh (38) and Ganesh Satish (39) also pitched in with useful contributions to help trim the deficit to 158 by stumps. Seamer Prateek Sinha and left-arm spinner Sumit Ruikar took two wickets each for Chhattisgarh.

Legspinner Raghu Sharma - playing only his second first-class match - and left-arm spinner Vinay Choudhary bagged seven wickets between them to put Punjab on course for an innings victory against Goa in Porvorim. In response to Punjab's 635, Goa were dismissed for 246, and ended the day on 67 for 2 after being asked to follow on.

Goa, resuming on 94 for 1, lost Swapnil Asnodkar in the second over of the day to Choudhary, who then combined with Raghu and seamer Siddarth Kaul (2-41) to cut through the rest of the batting line-up. At 176 for 9, a counterattacking 70-run partnership for the last wicket between Rituraj Singh (22) and Amit Yadav (52*) dragged the side to 246.

The slide seeped into Goa's second innings as well, with Choudhary and Kaul dismissing the openers. Captain Sagun Kamat and Amogh Desai then saw off the day without any further damage.

Akash Vasisht and Pankaj Jaiswal starred with both bat and ball to help Himachal Pradesh pull ahead on a 14-wicket day against Services at the Palam A ground in Delhi. They first took six wickets between them to dismiss Services for 215 and earn a 149-run first-innings lead for Himachal Pradesh. Vasisht and Jaiswal then hit 44 and 33 respectively to extend the lead and set Services a target of 326.

Resuming on 153 for 6, Services lost their last four wickets for 62 runs to be bowled out in 76.3 overs, in their first dig. Debutant Nitin Tanwar top scored for them with 55 for 67 balls.

Himachal Pradesh began shakily in their second innings, and were pinned down to 58 for 6 by the 31st over. Rishi Dhawan, Vasisht and Jaiswal then cracked 17 boundaries between them to lift the score to 176 for 9 before they declared. In pursuit of 326, Services lost opener Navneet Singh early, and closed the day at 28 for 1.