Shreyas Iyer's belligerent knock off 164 balls included 18 fours and four sixes and this was his second consecutive ton in Ranji Trophy this season as he scored 142 in his previous appearance.

Shahbaz Ahmed produced a brilliant all-round performance to power Bengal to a dominating 43-run win over Tamil Nadu in their Elite Group E match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Sunday

Robin Uthappa and Stuart Binny shared a 53-run stand to help Karnataka overhaul the modest target of 103 against Odisha in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

It was the last match of the Ranji Trophy season for both Rajasthan and Odisha -- having failed to make the quarter-finals. Rajasthan finished with 17 points from eight games and Odisha 12 points from eight games.

Odisha were all out for 37 in Bengal's district town of Nadia which was hosting its first Ranji Trophy match

Defending Ranji Trophy champions Karnataka registered their second outright win in the tournament when they defeated Odisha by an innings and 64 runs in Mysore.

Vidarbha and Delhi failed to push for victory against Odisha and Rajasthan respectively in the Ranji Trophy.

Unmukt Chand struck his third ton of the season for Delhi against Odisha on the opening day of the Group B Ranji Trophy match.

Skipper Biplab Samantray socred 100 and bagged two wickets as Odhisha edged past Goa by one run in a nail-biting quarter-final tie.

Natraj Behera, who hit 130 in the first innings, once again showed good application as he rescued his team by scoring an unbeaten 127 off 218 deliveries, laced with 17 fours and three sixes.

Led by Parvinder Awana (5/97), Delhi bowled out Odisha for 379, 63 runs behind their first innings total of 442.

Rajat Bhatia, who resumed at 71, not only recorded his 13th first class century but ensured that Delhi posted a commanding score of 442.

After Mithun (5/58) and Sharath (5/80) shared all 10 wickets between them to bundle Odisha all out for 279 in their second innings, Karnataka were required to chase down just 127 for victory, which they achieved comfortably.

Openers Robin Uthappa (33) and Mayank Aggarwal (23) got out after getting set but Pandey in company of the dogged Lokesh Rahul (67, 144 balls, 11x4) added 114 runs for the third wicket.

Put in to bat, Odisha could never manage to settle down and kept losing wickets at regular intervals to be reeling at 66 for seven at one stage.

Saurabh Tiwary and Pappu Singh were the only Jharkhand batsmen to put up some resistance against Odisha.

Behera, who hit 11 boundaries in 228-ball stay at the crease today, stitched 150 runs for the third wicket with Govind Podder (74) after Gujarat were reduced to 26 for two in the first hour at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium at Jamtha.

Harbhajan produced a brilliant display of spin bowling to return with figures of 28.2-12-54-6 at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium here.