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Best Batting performances
- Akshay Wadkar fell two short of a maiden first-class double hundred, driving Vidarbha’s total against Puducherry to 428. Earlier in the day, Yash Rathod fell for 134.
- Prerak Mankad (129) and Ravindra Jadeja (102) converted their half-centuries into triple-figures, swelling Saurashtra’s total to 392 against Chhattisgarh, before the latter fell to former state-mate Dharmendrasinh Jadeja.
- Atit Sheth was agonisingly bowled for 99, while a host of half-centuries played its part in Baroda declaring their innings on 472 for 8 against Goa.
- Aaradhya Yadav and Zeeshan Ansari extended Uttar Pradesh’s command over Bihar, striking half-centuries to set up a total of 540 after overnight centurions Madhav Kaushik and Rinku Singh fell for 150 and 112 respectively.
- An unbeaten 199-run partnership between Sudip Kumar Gharami and Abishek Porel helped Bengal saunter into the lead against Delhi in Kalyani. Both batters struck centuries as the hosts ended the day on 304 for 3.
- Vedant Trivedi and Aarya Desai made identical scores of 94 each, with the former remaining unbeaten at Stumps as Gujarat responded strongly to Baroda’s 324.
- Two days after turning 19, SV Rahul marked his first-class debut with a memorable hundred. The left-hander joined forces with wicketkeeper Revanth Reddy to bail Andhra out of a soup against Karnataka, securing a lead of 57 by Stumps.
- Akash Vasisht struck a tremendous unbeaten 113 to revive Himachal Pradesh, who were 119/7 at one stage on Day 1 against Haryana.
- Aditya Singh’s 147 combined well with captain Virat Singh’s dogged 108 to put Jharkhand on the ascendancy against Kerala. The hosts ended Day 2 with a total of 587 in Jamshedpur.
- Twin tons for Assam too as captain Denish Das and Sibsankar Roy thwarted a strong Punjab attack in New Chandigarh. Swarupam Purkayastha made a brisk 66 of his own as Assam were bowled out close to the 400-mark.
- A 104-run partnership between Narayan Jagadeesan and Pradosh Ranjan Paul headlined Tamil Nadu’s response after Rajasthan were bowled out for 363. But neither batter could convert their fifties, keeping the game in the balance. Earlier in the day, Mahipal Lomror struck 66 before his dismissal saw Rajasthan lose five wickets for 16 runs.
- Tanush Kotian and Mohit Avasthi struck half-centuries to frustrate Chandigarh as Mumbai posted 429. While captain Siddhesh Lad couldn’t get to a hundred, Shams Mulani and Tushar Deshpande chipped in with handy contributions of their own.
- Captain Kishan Lyngdoh’s 78 led the way for Meghalaya on an attritional day’s play in Rangpo, before an unbeaten 72 from Swastic Chettri brought them to within seven runs of drawing level with Sikkim’s first-innings total.
- Avneesh Sudha scored an unbeaten 75, while Jagadeesha Suchith struck a quick half-century, leaving Uttarakhand just 18 runs to achieve first-innings parity against Railways.
- Kangabam Priyojit Singh’s 87 rescued Manipur from a perilous 39 for 5, sealing a lead of 68 against Mizoram.
Best Bowling performances
- Tushar Deshpande ripped through Chandigarh’s top-order, bagging a hattrick en route to a five-wicket haul. Mohit Avasthi played an excellent support role to return 3/9 as Chandigarh were shot out for a paltry 78, before Deshpande returned to strike again after Mumbai enforced the follow-on.
- Tripura offspinner Sandip Sarkar was rewarded with eight wickets in a marathon spell that saw him send down 41.2 overs. But Hyderabad pocketed a sizable lead of 160 before snapping up seven wickets to inch closer towards an innings win.
- Avesh Khan snaffled three wickets to lead Madhya Pradesh’s charge against defending champions Jammu and Kashmir, who were bowled out for 120. Aryan Pandey did his bit in cleaning up the tail to hand MP a 76-run lead.
- In what was his first first-class outing in two years, Umesh Yadav marked his debut for Punjab with a five-wicket haul against Assam.
- Mizoram’s Khiangte Vanrotlinga rocked Manipur’s top-order before returning to complete a five-wicket haul.
