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New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Punjab and last year’s runners-up Baroda were facing defeats Saturday while Mumbai’s Abhishek Nayar, Madhya Pradesh’s Naman Ojha and Mohnish Mishra scored fine hundreds on day three of the Ranji Trophy matches.

Punjab, chasing Saurashtra’s 542, were struggling at 44 for 4 after following-on at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. The hosts, who made 278 in their first innings, need another 220 runs to make Saurashtra bat again.

Saurashtra’s left-arm fast bowler Jaydev Unadkat did the damage in the Punjab first innings while medium pacer Sandip Maniar took three in the second to put the home team on the backfoot.

Haryana have taken a healthy 363-run lead against Baroda at the Moti Bagh Stadium in the popular city of Gujarat. The visitors were 187 for 7 in their second innings after Baroda collapsed from 104 for one to 214 all out. Haryana made 390 in their first innings.

At Brabourne Stadium, Karnataka have the upper hand against Mumbai despite Abhishek’s Nayar second consecutive hundred of the season. Nayar was retired hurt on 137 as Mumbai ended the day at 354 for 8 in reply to Karnataka’s mammoth 635.

Ojha led from the front to take Madhya Pradesh to 344 for 3 against Bengal at the Jadavpur University Complex in Kolkata. The stylish batsman made a gritty 127 and was able supported by Mishra, who remained unbeaten on 130.

Kerala beat Tripura by an innings and 53 runs in a Plate Division match in Kochi’s Nehru Stadium.

Brief scores:

Elite Division

At Delhi: Delhi 212 all out and 233 for 5 (Milind Kumar 58, Yogesh Nagar 56; Yo Mahesh 2 for 35) Tamil Nadu 306 all out (Abhinav Mukund 99, Ramaswamy Prasanna 59; Ashish Nehra 2 for 70, Pradeep Sangwan 3 for 79, Vikas Mishra 2 for 55).

At Delhi: Rajasthan 521 for 8 decl, Railways 274 for 4 in 93 overs (Shivakant Shukla 87, Sanjay Bangar 79; Vivek Yadav 3 for 64).

At Mumbai: Karnataka 635 for 9 decl, Mumbai 354 for 8 in 94.3 overs (Abhishek Nayar retired hurt 137, Rohit Sharma 64; Vinay Kumar 3 for 79, Abhimanyu Mithun 2 for 79).

At Sambalpur: Orissa 482 all out, Uttar Pradesh 287 for 3 in 111 overs (Tanmay Srivastava 115, Mohammad Kaif 88; Alok Mangaraj 1 for 77).

At Mohali: Saurashtra 542 all out, Punjab 278 all out in 70.3 overs (Mandeep Singh 85, Amitoze Singh 64; Jaydev Unadkat 6 for 87, Ravindra Jadeja 2 for 42) and 44 for 4 (Sandeep Maniar 3 for 14)

At Kolkata: Bengal 496 all out, Madhya Pradesh 344 for 3 in 108 overs (Naman Ojha 127, Mohnish Mishra batting 130; Shami Ahmed 2 for 80).

At Vadodara: Haryana 390 all out and 187 for 7 in 58 overs (Abhimanyu Khod 71, Sunny Singh 46; Swapnil Singh 4 for 29, Irfan Pathan 2 for 32), Baroda 214 all out in 65.5 overs (Aditya Waghmode 51, Rakesh Solanki 52; Amit Mishra 4 for 27, Harshal Patel 3 for 52, Jitnder Billa 2 for 43)

Plate Division

At Delhi: Vidarbha 508 for 6 decl, Services 238 for 8 in 90 overs (Jasvir Singh 74, Soumyaranjan Swain 70 ; Shrikant Wagh 2 for 54, Amol Jungade 2 for 45, Ravi Jangid 2 for 32)

At Vijayawada: Andhra 265 all out and 176 for 4 in 53 overs (Shankara Rao batting 96, Venugopal Rao 39 ; Vishal Bhatia 2 for 34), Himachal Pradesh 341 all out in 111.3 overs (Paras Dogra 106, Varun Sharma not out 104; Paidikalva Vijaykumar 2 for 45, Tekkami Atchuti Rao 3 for 91, Syed Sahabuddin 2 for 79, Garikina Prasad 2 for 29).

At Kochi: Tripura 139 all out and 124 all out in 57.1 overs (Kaushal Acharjee 47; Sony Cheruvathur 3 for 23, Prasanth Parameswaran 3 for 28, Padmanabhan Prasanth 3 for 26) Kerala 316 all out in 125.1 overs (VA. Jagadeesh 57, Sony Cheruvathur 77; Udit Patel 5 for 75, Rana Dutta 2 for 40, Rajib Saha 2 for 32).

At Guwahati: Assam 227 all out and 0 for 1 in 4.4 overs, Hyderabad 474 for 6 decl in 143 overs (Akshath Reddy 112, Syed Quadri 107; Abu Nechim 2 for 93, Tarjinder Singh 2 for 64).

At Nashik: Maharashtra 460 all out, Jharkhand 283 all out in 84.4 overs (Rameez Nemat 79, Shiv Gautam 67; Shrikant Munde 3 for 64, Samad Fallah 2 for 54, Chirag Khurana 2 for 27, Akshya Darekar 2 for 63) and 218 for 6 in 64 overs (Manish Vardhan 88, Shiv Gautam 39; Dominic Joseph 3 for 17)

At Jammu: Goa 281 all out and 376 for 9 in 100 overs (Sher Yadav 118, Reagan Pinto 64; Ram Dayal 3 for 76, Abid Nabi 2 for 78, Samiullah Beigh 2 for 82) Jammu & Kashmir 260 all out