Jalaj Saxena’s all-round show of 11 wickets in the match and a crucial unbeaten 54 in the first innings helped Kerala register a win over last year’s semi-finalists Jharkhand.

Six wickets each from Jaydev Unadkat and Shaurya Sanandia in the match helped Saurashtra beat Haryana by an innings and 39 runs and earn a bonus point for the innings victory.

Indian discard Suresh Raina tried his best to take Uttar Pradesh home but a batting collapse in the second innings chasing 94 saw his team lose to Railways by 21 runs. Uttar Pradesh had the game in their hand till lunch on day 3 until the Railways bowlers took charge and blew away the hosts.

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Here is a brief summary of what happened on day 3 of the first round.

Trivandrum: Kerala 259 and 34/1 (KB Arun Karthick 27*) beat Jharkhand 202 and 89 (Saurabh Tiwary 26*, Jalaj Saxena 5/27, M Kareparambil 4/42) by 9 wickets.

Lahli: Haryana 107 and 140 (CK Bishnoi 56, Jaydev Unadkat 3/55, Chirag Jani 2/12, Shaurya Sanandia 2/18) lost to Saurashtra 278 by an innings and 31 runs.

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh 250 and 72 (Suresh Raina 29, Avinash Yadav 4/26, Anureet Singh 3/25) lost to Railways 182 and 161 (Arindam Ghosh 57, Ankit Rajpoot 4/34) by 21 runs.

Delhi (Palam ground): Bengal 552/9 decl. and 77/0 (Abhishek Raman 40*, Abhimanyu Easwaran 31*) lead Services 359 (NK Singh 121, Aamir Gani 5/109) by 270 runs.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu 176 and 112/2 (Abhinav Mukund 54*) trail Andhra 309 (B Sandeep 109, Ashwin Hebbar 64, R Ashwin 4/71) by 21 runs.

Bhubaneshwar: Tripura 6/0 vs Odisha.

Indore: Baroda 302 (Yusuf Pathan 111, Irfan Pathan 80, Ishwar Pandey 2/44) and 41/1 (Aditya Waghmode 31) trail Madhya Pradesh 551/8 decl. by 208 runs.

Jaipur: Jammu and Kashmir 432/6 (Ahmad Omar Banday 102, Parvez Rasool 97, Ian Chauhan 79) lead Rajasthan 330 by 102 runs.

Delhi (Ferozshah Kotla): Assam 258 and 60/3 (Sibsankar Roy 28*, Navdeep Saini 2/13) trail Delhi 435 (Gautam Gambhir 137, Nitish Rana 110, Anuj Rawat 71) by 117 runs.

Goa: Goa 223/4 (Sumiran Amonkar 79, Sagun Kamat 47) trail Chhattisgarh 458 by 235 runs.

Dharamsala: Punjab 484/6 (Abhishek Gupta 129*, Abhishek Sharma 81*, Jiwanjot Singh 59, GK Singh 5/118) trail Himachal Pradesh 729/8 decl. by 245 runs.

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