The second round of the Ranji Trophy 2026-27, which began on October 18, produced several outright results on day three. Baroda, Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh won in Group A, Assam and Bengal won in Groups B and C, and R Sai Kishore took a hat-trick in Group D. Here is a round-up of the day’s action.
Group A
Three of the four Group A matches ended with an outright result. Baroda, Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh won their matches against Bihar, J&K and Goa respectively. Vidarbha almost botched a 79-run chase against the defending champions but won by three wickets in a thriller.
Madhya Pradesh took a massive 168-run first-innings lead over Pondicherry, thanks to Rajat Patidar’s century. The hosts started their second innings well and finished the day at 98-1, still trailing by 70 runs.
Baroda 416 & 4-0 beat Bihar 166 & 251 (Mangal Mahrour 138, Bhargav Bhatt 6-53)
Pondicherry 177 & 98-1 (Ritesh Gudge 47*) vs Madhya Pradesh 345 (Rajat Patidar 122, Sagar Trivedi 4-44)
Vidarbha 305 (Ravikumar Samarth 143, Umar Nazir Mir 4-56) & 81-7 (Mandar Mhale 25, Sunil Kumar 4-30) beat Jammu & Kashmir 260 & 123 (Nachiket Bhute 5-48)
Uttar Pradesh 202 (Rinku Singh 118*) & 197 (Aryan Juyal 74, Yash Kasvankar 5-69) beat Goa 164 (Zeeshan Ansari 5-45) & 167 (Suyash Prabhudessai 72, Kartik Yadav 5-37)
Group B
Assam beat Tripura by nine wickets, chasing a modest target of 36. Manisankar Murasingh scored an exceptional 161 to force Assam to bat again, but he could not save Tripura from defeat.
Chhattisgarh will hope to bat out a draw after Punjab enforced the follow-on. They ended the day at 123-3 and still trail by 127 runs. Andhra slipped to 7-2 while chasing 398 against Hyderabad, who declared their second innings at 306-7 on the back of Kodimela Himateja’s unbeaten 123.
Saurashtra, riding Sammar Gajjar’s 79, eked out a seven-run first-innings lead over Karnataka. Karnataka finished the day at 98-2 in their second innings.
Chhattisgarh 206 & 123-3 (Ayush Pandey 59*) vs Punjab 456 (Uday Saharan 161, Salil Arora 107)
Andhra 184 & 7-2 vs Hyderabad 275 & 306-7d (Kodimela Himateja 123*, Kavuri Saiteja 4-40)
Karnataka 342 & 99-2 vs Saurashtra 349 (Sammar Gajjar 79, Vidwath Kaverappa 4-57)
Assam 334 & 36-1 beat Tripura 62 & 307 (Manisankar Murasingh 161, Mohit Thakur 5-101)
Group C
Bengal beat Services by 60 runs in Group C, thanks to a four-wicket haul from Pradipta Pramanik. Elsewhere, Kerala hold a strong position against Odisha going into the final day.
Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed a brilliant century at number seven against Jharkhand, which helped Maharashtra build a mammoth 358-run first-innings lead. Jharkhand made amends for their poor first-innings show and finished the day at 130-1. The Gujarat vs Delhi clash is heading towards a tame draw.
Odisha 225 (Gourav Choudhary 50, Vaisakh Chandran 4-40) & 102-4 (Gourav Choudhary 53, Jalaj Saxena 2-15) vs Kerala 404 (Mohammed Azharuddeen 139, Sachin Baby 112)
Gujarat 363-5 (Manan Hingarajia 108*) vs Delhi 648-6d (Ayush Badoni 217, Priyansh Arya 199)
Jharkhand 169 (Vicky Ostwal 4-39, Pradeep Dadhe 3-35) & 130-1 (Shikhar Mohan 74*) vs Maharashtra 527-5 (Digvijay Patil 148, Ankit Bawne 169*, Ruturaj Gaikwad 101*)
Bengal 184 & 146 beat Services 122 & 148 (Nitin Tanwar 49, Pradipta Pramanik 4-48)
Group D
R Sai Kishore starred on day three with a hat-trick against Uttarakhand. He finished with a six-wicket haul to help Tamil Nadu win by an innings and 66 runs.
Mumbai declared their first innings at 528-8 on the back of centuries from Sarfaraz Khan and Akash Anand. Himachal Pradesh’s batters fared better in their second innings and ended the day at 144-3.
Himachal Pradesh 140 (Tushar Deshpande 4-46) & 144-3 vs Mumbai 528-8d (Sarfaraz Khan 154, Akash Anand 117*)
Tamil Nadu 313 (Pradosh Ranjan Paul 136, Baba Indrajith 77, Mayank Mishra 5-118) beat Uttarakhand 134 & 113 (R Sai Kishore 6-34)
Railways 305-6 (Eshaan Goyal 64) vs Rajasthan 497 (Sachin Yadav 194, Karan Lamba 194)
Haryana 245 (Yashvardhan Dalal 95, Nishant Sindhu 92) beat Chandigarh 103 & 118 (Nishant Sindhu 6-27)
Plate Group
Sedezhalie Rupero starred for Nagaland with an unbeaten century in reply to Mizoram’s 581. Nagaland finished the day at 324-3 and still trail by 257 runs.
Manipur need 276 to win against Meghalaya after bowling them out for 172 in the second innings. Jotin Pheiroijam took four wickets.
Satyajeet Bachhav took five wickets as Sikkim bowled Arunachal out for 123 in the second innings. Sikkim won by an innings and 328 runs.
Nagaland 324-3 (Sedezhalie Rupero 108*) vs Mizoram 581-9d (Chinmay Sutar 400*, Jehu Anderson 69)
Manipur 277 (Karnajit Yumnam 100) & 11-0 vs Meghalaya 380 (Kevin Christopher 110, Pheiroijam Jotin 5-79) & 172 (Rahul Dalal 39, Jotin Pheiroijam 4-21)
Sikkim 572-5d (Parth Palawat 151, Gurinder Singh 146, Nilesh Lamichaney 134) beat Arunachal Pradesh 121 & 123 (Satyajeet Bachhav 5-27)