Eighteen teams will participate in the tournament. Last year's winner Sonnet c.c, runners-up Delhi Police, D.S.Group , Noida and Indian Airlines have been give bye into the quarter-final and Krishi Exports, Varanasi and State Bank of Patiala have been given bye into the pre-quarter final. All the matches will be off 40 overs.

Firdosi shines
Malik Sports (211 in 38.1 overs: Azhar Firdosi 42, Moinuddin 36, Satish 4 for 25) defeated Friends c.c (138 in 36.1 overs: Sanjay Bharadwaj 51, D.D.Sharma 25, Kamil 2 for 21, Moinuddin 2 for 12) by 73 runs in a D division DDCA League at the Kotla No 1 ground. Central Secretariat (182 for 4 in 34.3 overs: V.P.Gill 44, Sanjay Singh 34 n.o, S.K.Gautam 33) triumphed over NSCC (180 in 39.4 overs: Nafees Ahmed 59, Pardeep Deswal 41, Sanjay Singh 3 for 19, Rattan Lal 2 for 25, Devender Singh 2 for 26) by six wickets in a A division match at the Central Secretariat ground.

At Kotla No 2, Maulana Azad c.c (224 in 34.3 overs: Mohd Rehan 72, Asim 41, Dharamveer 2 for 35, Amit Shukla 2 for 27, Pardeep Mann 3 for 2) beat Delhi Wonders (113 in 31.2 overs: Sanjeev Thapliyal 32, Mohd Rehan 3 for 6) by 111 runs.

In a C division match at the University ground, Gautam Gambhir (64) and Salman Shah (71) helped Chand Club (257 for 7 in 40 overs: Gautam Gambhir 64, Salman Shah 71 n.o, Sohail Rauf 42, Rajat Khanna 15, Kapil Sharma 2 for 29, Agnesh Kumar 2 for 37) beat Bara Hindu Rao c.c (173 for 8 in 40 overs: Agnesh Kumar 34, Rohit Rathi 30 n.o, Gautam Gambhir 2 for 28, Vipin Bharadwaj 2 for 14) by 84 runs.

Winsome advance
Winsome Club (150 for 1 in 22.5 overs: Suhail Rauf 75 n.o, Gautam Gambhir 64 n.o) beat South Delhi Coaching Centre (146 in 34.5 overs: Abhishek 30, Vivek 19, Gautam Gambhir 3 for 28, Tony Singh 3 for 20) by nine wickets in the second Moonways under 19 cricket league.

Sona lose
Sona Club (185 in 26.1 overs: Rajnesh 37, Sudhir Siddhu 29, Sanjay Dhiman 22, Pankaj Joshi 4 for 23, Vikas 2 for 29) lost to Chand Khanna xi (189 for 6 in 30 overs; Sunil Joshi 48 n.o, Naveen Asrani 41, Manish Chawla 25, Sudhir Siddhu 3 for 38, Sanjay Gaur 2 for 35) by four runs in the second Lala Hari Ram Aggarwal Memorial Cricket.

Pawan move up
Pawan xi (159 for 6 in 24.3 overs: Vishal Rajdan 48, Pankaj Joshi 39, Amar Singh 30, John Anthony 2 for 18, Sanjay Gill 2 for 38) defeated Bhola xi (158 in 24.3 overs: Sanjay Gill 30, Pradeep 29, Pankaj Malik 28, Sanjay Verma 2 for 17, Rajeev Punj 2 for 35) by four wickets in the Netaji Subhash Chander Memorial Cricket.