Piyush Chawla led from the front with an unbeaten century to give Uttar Pradesh the crucial first innings lead over Tamil Nadu at the end of the third and penultimate day's play in a Group B match of the Ranji Trophy.
Ramaswamy Prasanna scored an unbeaten century as Tamil Nadu overcame early jitters to reach 258 for seven at the end of the opening day's play in their Group B Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh.
Tamil Nadu held the upper hand as they left Madhya Pradesh struggling at 221/7 after declaring their first innings at a mammoth 532/8 in their Group B Ranji Trophy match.
Subramaniam Badrinath (248) slammed a double hundred as Tamil Nadu piled on the woes of Madhya Pradesh as the visitors reached a massive 532 for eight on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Indore on Thursday.
An unbeaten hundred by Baba Aparajith and a half century from veteran S Badrinath guided Tamil Nadu to a strong position as they made 220 for three against Services on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match, in New Delhi on Sunday.
Rain continued to play spoilsport in the Duleep Trophy 2013 final between North Zone and South Zone with the fourth and the regulation final day's play also called off due to a wet ground at Kochi on Sunday.
Test specialist Pragyan Ojha's deadly spell (six for 48) of left-arm spin bowling enabled South Zone record a crushing innings and 38 runs victory over Central Zone to clinch a place in the Duleep Trophy final.
Skipper Abhinav Mukund and Baba Aparajith smashed hundreds as South Zone took a firm grip of the Duleep trophy semifinal against Central Zone by reaching 479 for nine, which gave them a 258-run lead on the third and penultimate day of the match.
Former champions South Zone progressed to the semi-final of the Duleep Trophy cricket tournament by pipping West Zone by virtue of a 313-run first innings lead after their four-day quarter-final match ended in a draw in Chennai on Sunday.
India A lost the unofficial One-Day International (ODI) series against West Indies A, despite having the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Vinay Kumar and Robin Uthappa in their ranks. Sudatta Mukherjee, however, looks at the positives for India.