J&K bowled out for 162, Services crawl to 170 for 3

Mayank Dagar and Pankaj Jaiswal took seven wickets between them as Himachal Pradesh bowled Jammu & Kashmir out for 162 on the first day in Ranchi.

Parvez Rasool, who took over the captaincy from Mithun Manhas, won the toss and elected to bat. Jaiswal removed opener Umar Nissar in the second over, before 19-year-old spinner Dagar broke a second-wicket partnership of 47 to reduce J&K to 49 for 2. Jaiswal was involved in three of the next four wickets to fall, as he ran out Puneet Bisht for 12, and removed Parvez Rasool and Ram Dayal to leave J&K at 111 for 6.

Opener Shubham Khajuria, who scored a century in the last match, scored 48 and was the last batsman to be dismissed, having retired mid-way through his innings. Mithun Manhas (18), who had also retired, was the ninth wicket to fall. Both of them got out to Dagar, who took the last three wickets to finish with 4 for 33.

Himachal lost openers Ankush Bains and Prashant Chopra on the way to 58 for 2 at stumps.

Services scored at under two runs per over as they went into stumps at 170 for 3 against Andhra in Indore.

On a day that only three wickets fell, it will he hard to believe a bowler had been on a hat-trick, but Cheepurapalli Stephen did remove Services captain Soumik Chatterjee and Ravi Chauhan in successive deliveries in the 23rd over, leaving Services at 19 for 2.

However, opener Anshul Gupta, who scored 72 off 268, put on 140 for the third wicket with Shamsher Yadav, who survived the hat-trick ball, to steady Services' innings. Gupta fell to the part-time legspin of DB Ravi Teja with the score on 159. From that point, Services scored only 11 runs in the last 25.2 overs. Yadav was unbeaten on 60 off 22o balls.

Haryana overcame two passages of losing wickets for no addition of runs to end the day on 227 for 8 against Kerala in Jaipur. They lost their second and third wickets on the score of 53 before going from 104 for 3 to 104 for 6.

After being put in, Haryana lost opener Shubham Rohilla in the third over. Nitin Saini put on 44 for the second wicket with Chaitanya Bishnoi before both of them fell to debutant medium-pacer Venugopalan Vinod Kumar.

Vinod Kumar then broke a 51-run partnership for the fourth wicket when he got rid of Rajat Paliwal. Sandeep Warrier removed Mohit Hooda and Harshal Patel in the next over, and Haryana had lost three wickets in 11 balls.

Rohit Sharma scored an unbeaten 51 as he put on 50 with Yuzvendra Chahal, 34 with Mohit Sharma and an unbroken 39 with Sanjay Pahal to take Haryana to 227 at stumps. Warrier ended the day with 4 for 59, and Vinod Kumar finished with 3 for 37.

Only 38.3 overs were bowled in the match between Chhattisgarh and Goa in Cuttack because of a wet outfield. Amandeep Khare scored an unbeaten half-century to lead Chhattisgarh to 103 for 2 at stumps.

There was no play until lunch after Goa won the toss and elected to field. When play began, they removed debutant Abhishek Singh for a duck in the third over. A second-wicket partnership of 76 between opener Sahil Gupta and Khare ended when Gupta was run out with the score on 81. Returning skipper Mohammad Kaif joined Khare to ensure no more damage before play was called off.

Damage, though, was caused to medium-pacer Felix Alemao, who slipped in his follow-through and had to be taken off on a stretcher after bowling 5.5 overs.

Play was abandoned for the day in the match between Hyderabad and Tripura in Delhi as smog made it impossible for players to take the field.