Ranji Trophy: Odisha gets first outright win in four years

Wicketkeeper�'batsman Halhadar Das followed soon after and at 81/5 it was anybody's game. However, Govinda Podder and Deepak Behera put on 43 runs to take Odisha close to victory.

Podder got out after an important half�'century but Behera and Lagnajit Samal made sure Odisha's winless run didn't extend any longer.

Tamil Nadu also earned their first outright win of the season in a dramatic victory over Maharashtra in Chennai. Needing only two more wickets to finish off the match, the hosts took only 8.5 overs to confirm six points.

Brief Scores:

Group A:

In Kolkata: Gujarat 260 all out and 272 for 8 decl. (Rujul Bhatt not out 103, Rakesh Dhurv 83) vs Bengal 526 for 7 decl.

In Hyderabad: Saurashtra 260 all out and 270 for 6 decl. vs Hyderabad 186 all out and 232/6 decl. (Ashish Reddy 56, Bavanaka Sandeep not out 50; Ravindra Jadeja 3/84).

In Bhubaneswar: Railways 205 all out and 353 for 5 decl. (Amit Paunikar 166,Sanjay Bangar not out 62) vs Punjab 314 all out and 59 for 2 decl.

In Jaipur: Madhya Pradesh 256 all out and 466 for 6 decl. (Naman Ojha 111, Jalaj Saxena 76 not out) vs Rajasthan 379 all out and 88 for 4 decl.

Group B:

In Delhi: Baroda 561 all out in 178 overs vs Delhi 505 for 6 decl. (Rajat Bhatia 133 not out, Mithun Manhas 106; Bharghav Bhatt 3/169).

In Rohtak: Haryana 66 all out and 300 all out vs Odisha 219 all out and 152 for 6 (Podder 51).

In Chennai: Tamil Nadu 276 all out and 149 all out vs Maharashtra 233 all out and 88 all out (Aushnik Srinivas 3/15, Malolan Rangarajan 3/34).

In Meerut: Uttar Pradesh 283 all out and 343 for 5 in 112 overs (Parvinder Singh 143, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 91) vs Karnataka 181 all out and 274 for 8 (Pandey 76, Satish 70; Bhuvneshwar 4�'67).

Group C:

In Nadaun: Andhra 372 all out and 282 for 7 dec (Muzumdar 104, Sumanth 81; Dhawan 5/77) vs Himachal Pradesh 265 all out in 95.4 overs and 108 for 4.

In Jamshedpur: Jharkhand 360 all out vs Goa 208 all out and 292 for 8 (Bisla 90; Gupta 6�'93).

In Malappuram: Kerala 264 all out and 294 for 5 (Abhishek Hegde 129, V.A. Jagadeesh 127) vs Assam 286 all out in 97.3 overs and 201 for 6 (Pallav Das 92 not out, Sreejith 5�'75).

In Agartala: Services 563 for four decl and 7 for 0 vs Tripura 484 (Abbas Ali 121, Dey 107, Roy 64; Shahdab Nazar 6/108).