Saurabh Kumar spins UP to big win

Left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar's second five-wicket haul of the match helped Uttar Pradesh seal a 155-run win over Gujarat in Valsad. Manpreet Juneja (91 off 101 balls) and Axar Patel (80 off 89) played gritty late-order knocks and added 142 runs off 153 balls for the seventh wicket, but couldn't avoid defeat.

Set a target of 431, Gujarat were reduced to 6 for 2 inside five overs by Saurabh and Praveen Kumar. Gujarat rebuilt via a 60-run stand between Bhargav Merai, who scored 54 off 77 balls, and captain Parthiv Patel. But, after Praveen dismissed Parthiv, Gujarat slid from 66 for 3 to 110 for 6 with left-arm spinner Ali Murtaza picking up two of the three wickets to fall.

Juneja and Axar counterattacked, but Murtaza removed Juneja to claim his third wicket before Saurabh came back to clean up the tail. Saurabh finished with a match haul of 10 for 143.

Half-centuries from Yusuf Pathan, Aditya Waghmode and Deepak Hooda, along with a useful hand from Swapnil Singh late in the innings helped Baroda secure the first-innings lead against Madhya Pradesh in Vadodara.

Resuming on 188 for 4, the hosts lost their first wicket in the ninth over of the day when Waghmode was caught behind off offspinner Jalaj Saxena.

Legspinner Mihir Hirwani, who finished with five wickets, first dismissed Yusuf, and a few overs later, removed Atit Sheth and Rishi Arothe off consecutive deliveries to reduce Baroda to 251 for 8, still 18 runs short of Madhya Pradesh's first-innings total.

However, Swapnil and Ajitesh Argal put on 33 runs to take their team past the visitors' total, and eventually pushed the lead to 27 runs. Madhya Pradesh, in the second innings, went to stumps on 113 for 2.

Seamer Aswin Crist's maiden five-wicket haul helped Tamil Nadu bowl out Railways for 164 and enforce the follow-on in Delhi.

Railways, resumed on 129 for 7, lost opener V Cheluvaraj, who had batted nearly five hours, in the fourth over of the day when Crist had him caught behind. The hosts were bowled out soon after.

Railways, however, put up a better show in their second innings, and once again Cheluvaraj was at the forefront. The team had got off to a shaky start and had slipped to 77 for 4, before Cheluvaraj, scoring his second half-century of the match, and captain Mahesh Rawat raised an unbroken 123-run stand to erase the deficit.