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New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh fast bowler T.P. Sudhindra’s seven-wicket haul in the first innings demolished Haryana as the hosts were bundled out for 126 and made to follow-on on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Elite League match Thursday.

At Rohtak, Nitin Saini (53) and Sunny Singh (75 batting) led the Haryana fight-back as they made 147 for the loss of two wickets in their second innings at close on the third day. Madhya Pradesh made 487 in the first innings and have assured points on the basis of their first innings lead.

At the Edebn Gardens in Kolkata, Manoj Tiwary, fresh from his maiden ODI ton, resurrected the Bengal innings with a brilliant 163 that took the home team to 358/8 from a precarious 138 for five. Skipper Sourav Ganguly also scored 50. Delhi fast bowler Pradeep Sangwan picked up 4/95.

Bengal, who are staring at relegation, still trail by 34 runs and, with two wickets in hand, will try to take a first innings lead to bag points from the match.

At Jaipur, defending champions Rajasthan have a firm grip on the game as they bowled out Saurashtra for 265 in their first innings after a five-wicket haul by tall fast bowler Pankaj Singh. The hosts were 169/1 in the second innings at stumps with veteran Aakash Chopra batting on 87. Saurashtra now have a lead of 300 runs.

At the Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat were 293 for four in the first innings at stumps after Tamil Nadu declared at a mammoth score of 698/8. Pratharesh Parmar (45) and Manprit Juneja (84) are still battling hard as they shared an unbeaten partnership of 138 for the fifth wicket.

Brief scores (Elite Division):

Group A:
At Delhi: Railways 379 all out vs. Orissa 294/5 in 129 overs (Paresh Patel 95, Subhrajit Sahoo 70; Ashish Yadav 2-23, Sanjay Bangar 2-49)

At Lucknow: Mumbai 414 all out in 134.5 overs (Sushant Marathe 102, Hiken Shah 56, Wassim Jaffer 55; Imtiyaz Ahmed 3-50, Piyush Chawla 3-88) vs. Uttar Pradesh 166/2 in 50 overs (Bhuvneshwar Kumar batting 61, Parvinder Singh batting 39; Ramesh Powar 1-37)

At Bangalore: Punjab 357 all out and 119/3 in 41 overs (Mayank Sidhana batting 57, Uday Kaul batting 23; Sunil Raju 1-49) vs. Karnataka 281 all out 92.4 overs (Stuart Binny 119, Muralidharen Gautam 62; Harmeet Singh 4-32, Rahul Sharma 3-92, Bipul Sharma 2-44)

At Jaipur: Rajasthan 396 all out and 169/1 in 57 overs (Aakash Chopra batting 87, Hrishikesh Kanitkar batting 38; Jaydev Unadkat 1-22) vs. Saurashtra 265 all out in 104.4 overs (Bhushan Chauhan 71, Cheteshwar Pujara 78, Pankaj Singh 5-64, Rituraj Singh 2-80)

Group B:
At Kolkata: Delhi 392 all out vs. Bengal 358/8 (Manoj Tiwary batting 163, Sourav Ganguly 50; Pradeep Sangwan 4-95, Parvinder Awana 2-103)

At Ahmedabad: Tamil Nadu 698/8 decl in 180 overs (Abhinav Mukund 220, Dinesh Karthik 135; Parth Parikh 3-226, Jesal Karia 3-91, Ishwar Chaudhary 2-117) vs. Gujarat 293/4 in 87 overs (Manprit Juneja batting 84, Priyank Panchal 80; Sunny Gupta 3-86)

At Rohtak: Madhya Pradesh 487 all out vs. Haryana 126 all out in 55.5 overs (Amit Mishra not out 45, Sachin Rana 40; T.P. Sudhindra 7-48) and 147/2 in 45 overs.