VHT: Markande, Brar trigger Mumbai's dramatic collapse

Best Batting Performances

In a dramatic outing in Rajkot, Jammu & Kashmir stunned Hyderabad via the batting heroics of Auqib Nabi and Vanshaj Sharma. In chase of Hyderabad's 268/9, J&K were down to 90/7 and on the verge of a big defeat when Nabi and Vanshaj came together for a stirring eighth-wicket stand worth 182 runs. Nabi smashed 10 fours and seven sixes on his way to a 114* off 82 while Vanshaj supported him well with a 78-ball 69.

Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his second century of the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy, hitting eight fours and six sixes in his unbeaten 134 off 131 against Goa. He could only drag Maharashtra to 249/7 after having revived his side following an early collapse. That was just about enough on the evening as they won by five runs. Lalit Yadav (57 off 67), Kashyap Bakhale (42 off 45), Snehal Kauthankar (40 off 49) and Deepraj Gaonkar (34 off 44) pushed on in chase but were stopped just in time. More on that below.

Tamil Nadu opener N Jagadeeshan smashed a stroke-filled century - 139 off 126 balls with nine fours and five sixes, to set up Tamil Nadu against Kerala, despite a strong bowling effort from the impressive pacer Eden Apple Tom, who finished with a six-wicket haul.

Saurashtra's 145-run win over Gujarat had many heroes. About the batters - the top-three Harvik Desai (82 off 80), Vishvaraj Jadeja (112 off 103) and Prerak Mankad (86 off 49) did bulk of the scoring. Ravindra Jadeja batted at No.4 and got a half-century too as Saurashtra posted a mammoth 383/4.

Tripura pair of Sridam Paul and Rajat Dey picked up the pieces from 20/3 and cracked centuries to lay the platform for their team's 197-run victory over Jharkhand in Ahmedabad. Paul smashed 150 off 134 with 13 fours and six sixes while Dey got a 102 off 115, with 13 fours.

In chase of Karnataka's 207, MP captain Venkatesh Iyer blazed away to a 33-ball 65* - with four fours and five sixes. He wrapped up the chase with a six and a four, after left-arm spinner Shivang Kumar picked a fifer (more on that below).

Sahab Yuvraj slammed a ton (118 off 134 with 11 fours and 2 sixes) to power Railways to a five-wicket win over Odisha in Alur.

Himachal Pradesh openers Kushal Pal (79* off 74) and Innesh Mahajan (73 off 68) powered their team to a win in the truncated 38-overs-a-side game against Sikkim.

Best Bowling Performances

Satyanarayana Raju (Andhra) and Zeeshan Ansari (Uttar Pradesh) kept up their tussle at the top of the wicket-takers chart for this edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy as they both ended the evening with a season tally of 21 wickets. Raju picked two against Services in a five-wicket victory in Alur which also saw Palakodeti Saketh Sairam and Maramreddy Hemanth Reddy bag three wickets each. Ansari meanwhile, returned figures of 3/33 in 9 overs as UP downed Bengal by five wickets. That fixture too had a batting star in chase after Ansari's heroics.

After Ruturaj's century, Maharashtra's narrow victory was courtesy a four-wicket haul for leg-spinner Prashant Solanki.

Another narrow win - by seven runs this time - was triggered by a four-wicket haul. This came in Jaipur for Chhattisgarh against Uttarakhand, with fast bowler Dev Aditya Singh returning figures of 4/33 in 10 overs. That helped Chattisgarh successfully defend their tally of 265 in Jaipur.

Ramandeep Singh (72) and Amnolpreet Singh (57) may have revived Punjab after a shaky start with the bat, but their thrilling one-run victory over Mumbai was down to the bowling tag-team of medium pacer Gurnoor Brar and leg-spinner Mayank Markande. Chasing just 216, Mumbai were in complete control as Sarfaraz Khan smashed sixes for fun in his 20-ball 62*. But Markande trapped him leg before in the 14th over to give his team the first glimmer of hope. Even then, Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dube added 30 quick runs as Mumbai seemed to be in some kind of urgency to wrap the chase up. But, from 191/3 in the 20th over, they lost seven wickets for just 24 runs to fall exactly a run short. Gurnoor and Markande picked four wickets each, with the leggie completing a famous win in the double-wicket 27th over where he dismissed Shashank Attarde and Onkar Tarmale.

Madhya Pradesh's left-arm spinner Shivang Kumar - who SRH roped in for his base price of INR 30 Lakh in last year's IPL auction, returned a fifer in a seven-wicket win over Karnataka. He accounted for the wickets of Smaran Ravichandran, Krishnan Shrijith, Shreyas Gopal, Abhinav Manohar and Shreesha Achar.

Delhi blew away Haryana with their pace troika of Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini and Prince Yadav in a 9-wicket victory. Ishant and Navdeep started the demolition job early on to reduce Haryana to 19/4 in the seventh over. Yadav swung into action when a fifth-wicket stand started to build slowly and nipped it in the bud. Haryana lost the top half of their line-up for 49 runs and the bottom half for the addition of 56 more to get bundled out for 105. The chase was straightforward

Once the batters did all the work, Saurashtra didn't take their foot off the pedal. Chetan Sakariya and Jadeja bagged three wickets each and the trio of Chirag Jani, Ankur Panwar and Pranav Karia picked a wicket apiece to restrict Gujarat.

Jharkhand's left-arm quick Sushant Mishra picked six wickets in a lost game against Jharkhand. Abhijit K Sarkar led the way for Jharkhand in the same fixture with figures of 4/40 while Ajay Sarkar and Swapnil Singh picked two each.