Ranji Trophy round-up: Round 1, day 3

The scores and reports of the third day's play in the first round of Ranji Trophy.

Kerala's Jalaj Saxena sizzled with a five-wicket haul against Jharkhand.

GROUP A At New Delhi:Assam 258 & 60 for three in 31 overs v Delhi 435 in 135.3 overs (Gautam Gambhir 137, Nitish Rana 110, Anuj Rawat 71, Manan Sharma 69, Abu Nechim seven for 68). ( REPORT ) At Hyderabad:Hyderabad v Maharashtra Washed out. At Lucknow:Railways 182 & 161 in 63.3 overs (Arindam Ghosh 57, Ankit Rajpoot four for 34) beat Uttar Pradesh 250 & 72 in 26 overs (Avinash Yadav four for 26); Points: UP 0, Railways 6.

GROUP B At Lahli: Saurashtra 278 beat Haryana 107 & 140 in 43 overs (Chaitanya Bishnoi 56); Points: Haryana 0, Saurashtra 7. At Jaipur:Team Rajasthan 330 v J&K 432 for six in 152 overs (Shubham Khajuria 53, Ahmed Omar Banday 102, Pranav Gupta 51, Ian Chauhan 79, Parvez Rasool 97). At Thiruvananthapuram:Jharkhand 202 & 89 in 41.3 overs (Jalaj Saxena five for 27, Monish Kareparambil four for 42) lost to Kerala 259 in 90.3 overs (Mohammed Azharuddeen 51, Jalaj Saxena 54 n.o., Sunny Gupta six for 94) & 34 for one in five overs; Points: Kerala 6, Jharkhand 0. ( REPORT )

GROUP C At Chennai:Tamil Nadu 176 & 112 for two in 54 overs (Abhinav Mukund 54 batting) v Andhra 309 in 123.4 overs (B. Sumanth 109, Ashwin Hebbar 64, Shoaib Md. Khan 43, R. Ashwin four for 71). ( REPORT ) At Indore:Madhya Pradesh 551 for eight decl. v Baroda 302 in 79 overs (Yusuf Pathan 111, Irfan Pathan 80) & 41 for one in 17 overs. At Bhubaneswar:Tripura six for no loss in two overs v Odisha ; Toss: Odisha.

GROUP D At Porvorim: Chhattisgarh 458 in 161.3 overs v Goa 223 for four in 97 overs (Sumiran Amonkar 79, Sagun Kamat 47). At New Delhi (Palam):Bengal 552 for nine decl. & 77 for no loss in 11 overs (Abhishek Kumar Raman 40 batting) v Services 359 in 111.2 overs (Navneet Singh 121, Ravi Chauhan 53, Rahul Singh Gahlaut 43, Aamir Gani five for 109) ( REPORT ) At Dharamshala:Himachal Pradesh 729 for eight decl. v Punjab 484 for six in 122 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 59, Pargat Singh 64, Anmolpreet Singh 50, Abhishek Gupta 129 batting, Abhishek Sharma 81 batting, Gurvinder Singh five for 118).