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New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Young Test opener Abhinav Mukund hammered a century for Tamil Nadu against Haryana, Rohit Sharma continued his great form with an unbeaten 55 off 59 balls and Gujarat’s Niraj Patel hit an unbeaten double century against Delhi, whose left-arm spinner Vikas Mishra claimed seven wickets in the second round Ranji Trophy Elite Division matches Friday.

Niraj Patel made 228 batting for close to nine hours and hitting 32 fours and two sixes as Gujarat amassed 520 at the Sardar Vallabhbahi Stadium in Valsad. Delhi were in trouble at 118 for three with only India under-19 captain Unmukt Chand holding one end. The opener was batting on 72.

In Chennai, Mukund scored a brisk century and put on 88 with fellow-opener Murali Vijay (33) and 81 with Kaushik Gandhi (18) for the unfinished second-wicket stand.

Hyderabad’s slide in the national championship continued as they lost their Plate Division match to Maharashtra in two days by an innings after being shot out for 54 runs in the second innings at home. Maharashtra fast bowler Akshay Darerkar claimed eight wickets for 20 runs to run through the Hyderabad innings.

Hyderabad’s former star batsman Ambati Rayudu, who now plays for Baroda, also threw his hat into the national ring by cracking a century against Madhya Pradesh who fought back in their second innings to make 176 for two after being shot out for 63 batting first Thursday.

Another century maker was Uttar Pradesh opener Tanmay Srivastava who carried his bat through to score a solid 175 in his side’s total of 362 against Sauraashtra.

Rajasthan continued to bat against Mumbai till they were all out for 530, tail wagging merrily to add 129 runs with Robin Bist who remained unbeaten with 82. for the last three wickets. Skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar, unbeaten 129 overnight, went on to make 141.

In Delhi, Karnataka forced Railways to follow on after dismissing them for 134 after scoring 347 in the first innings. Karnataka’s left-arm spinner Kotarangada Prabhu Appanna returned with five for 39.

Punjab just about managed to gain a first-innings lead against Orissa, thanks to Gitansh Khera’s 47 took their score to 255 in reply to 251.

ELITE DIVISION

Group A:

At Mumbai: Rajasthan 530 in 152.2 overs (Hrishikisesh Kanitkar 141, Ashok Menaria 32, Rashmi Parida 67, Robin Bist 82 not out, Rohit Jhalani 39, Gajendra Singh 31, Pankaj Singh 34, Dhawal Kulkarni 4 for 110, Murtuza Hussain 2 for 97, Iqbal Abdulla 3 for 91) Mumbai 104 for 2 in 25 overs (Abhishek Nayar 32 batting, Rohit Sharma 55 batting, Pankaj Singh 2 for 40).

At Mohali: Orissa 251 in 85.4 overs (Basant Mohanty 60 not out, Subhrajit Sahu 56, Sandeep Sharma 5 for 53, Brainder Sran 3 for 66) and 0 for no lossin one over, Punjab 255 for 9 decl. in 78.4 overs (Uday Kaul 62, Mayank Sidhana 30, Karan Goel 36, Gitansh Khera 47, Basant Mohanty 3 for 76, Alok Mangaraj 2 for 57, Lagnajit Samal 3 for 36).

At Meerut: Uttar Pradesh 362 in 116 overs (Tanmay Srivastava 175 not out, Mohammad Kaif 33, Parvinder Singh 47, Praveen Kumar 27, Sandip Maniar 4 for 91, Kamlesh Makwana 4 for 30), Saurashtra 208 for 4 in 62 overs (Sagar Jogiyani 39, Jaydev Shah 79 batting, Shitanshu Kotak 32 batting).

At Delhi: Karnataka 347 in 114.3 overs (Robin Uthappa 117, Ganesh Satish 26, Stuart Binny 67, Vinay Kumar 48, Abhimanyu Mithun 32, Jai Prakash Yadav 2 for 59, Murali Kartik 5 for 88, Shreyas Khanolkar 2 for 18) Railways 134 in 53.5 overs (Sanjay bangar 36, Abhimanyu Mithun 3 for 29, Kotarangada Prabhu Appanna 5 for 39, Sreenath Arvind 2 for 25) and 33 for 2 in 16 overs.

Group B:

At Vadodara: Madhya Pradesh 63 in 27.3 overs(Irfan Pathan 3 for 25, Firdaush Bhaja 4 for 19, Murtuja Vahora 2 for 16) and 176 for 2 in 49 overs (Naman Ojha 63, Mohnish Mishra 58), Baroda 375 in 94 overs (Aditya Waghmode 99, Ambati Rayudu 119, Pinal Shah 54, Irfan Pathan 27, TP Sudhindra 2 for 71, Anand Rajan 2 for 84, Jalaj Saxena 5 for 61).

At Valsad: Gujarat 520 in 142.5 overs (Parthiv Patel 100, Niraj Patel 228 not out, Salil Yadav 71, Pradeep Sangwan 2 for 114, Vikas Mishra 7 for 116) Delhi 118 for 3 in 35 overs (Unmukt Chand 72 batting, Faisal Dudhat 2 for 19).

At Chennai: Haryana 348 in 119.3 overs (Nitin Saini 43, Priyank Tehlan 95, Amit Mishra 71 not out, Laxmipath Balaji 3 for 46, Aushik Srinivas 3 for 88, Sunny Gupta 3 for 68) Tamil Nadu 169 for 1 in 58 overs (Abhinav Mukund 110 batting, Murali Vijay 33).

PLATE DIVISION

Group A:

At Vijaywada: Andhra 235 all out in 61.5 overs (Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi 52, Syed Sahabuddin 38; Manisankar Murasingh 5 for 74) and 47 for 3 in 19 overs (Y. Venugopala Rao 26 batting, Timir Chand 2 for 13), Tripura 174 in 83.4 overs (Subhrajit Roy 54, Kaushal Acharjee 28, Sahabuddin 2 for 44, Tekkami Atchuti Rao 4 for 78, Paidikalva Vijay Kumar 3 for 27).

At Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh 195 in 58.1 overs (Abhinav Bali 52, Varun Sharma 43; Amol Jungade 5 for 67, Sandeep Singh 4 for 50) and 200 (Sridharan Sriram 87, Rishi Dhawan 37, Shrikant Wagh 4 for 76, Sandeep Singh 5 for 41), Vidarbha 142 in 37.5 overs (Ranjit Paradkar 25, Vikramjeet Malik 4 for 62, Rishi Dhawan 5 for 60) and 13 for no loss in two overs.

At Kochi: Services 253 in 111.3 overs (Rajat Paliwal 73, Soumyaranjan Swain 33, Yashpal Singh 40, Muzaffaruddin Khalid 26, Sony Cheruvathur 2 for 53, Padmanabhan Prasanth 3 for 48, Rohan Prem 2 for18), Kerala 121 for 4 in 65.2 overs (V. A. Jagdeesh 50, Robert Fernandez 26, Nishant Singh 2 for 15).

Group B:

At Guwahati: Assam 195 in 82 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 73, Gokul Sharma 42; Amit Yadav 3 for 47, Sher Yadav 2 for 28) Goa 277 for 8 in 96 overs (Sher Yadav 39, Reagan Pinto 115 batting, Robin D’Souza 35, Amit Yadav 38 batting, Abu Nechim Ahmed 5 for 84)..

At Hyderabad: Hyderabad 124 in 53 overs (Hanuman Vihari 38, Akshya Darekar 5 for 48, Samad Fallah 2 for 23) and 54 in 34 overs (Akshya Darekar 8 for 20, Nikhil Paradkar 2 for 14), Maharashtra 184 in 63.1 overs (Sangram Atitkar 33, Darerkar 26, Kedar Jadhav 62, Lalith Mohan 2 for 81, Syed Quadri 5 for 28) Maharashtra won by an innings and six runs.

At Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir: 59 for no loss (Adil Rishi 36 batting, Ian Dev Singh 19 batting) vs Jharkhand. No play on second day owing to wet outfield.