Amay Khurasia, with Devendra Bundela, added 228, himself scoring an unbeaten 143.

Brief scores: Madhya Pradesh 295-3 (Amay Khurasia batting 143, Devendra Bundela 86) vs Rajasthan

Bihar beats Tripura

JAMSHEDPUR: Bihar defeated Tripura by nine wickets on the final day of the four-day East Zone match.

Bihar bundled out Tripura for 214 runs in their second knock and reached the 23-run victory target in five overs.

Hayana struggling

NEW DELHI: Haryana were struggling at 151-7, still needing 26 runs to avoid follow on against Services at the end of the third and penultimate day of the North Zone match.

Services, overnight 313 for eight, added 13 in as many minutes before being all out for 326.

Brief scores: Services 326 (CD Thomson 67, Amit Nadkarni 43, Vineet Jain 93-3, Parinder Sharma 49-3) vs Haryana 151-7 (Rajesh Puri 88, Syed Javed48-3)

Delhi takes lead

JAMMU: Visitors Delhi took 23 runs lead and were 166-7 in the second innings while the Jammu and Kashmir were bundled out at 125 on the third day of the last four-day match.

Brief Scores: Delhi 148 & 166-7 ( Verinder Sehwag 60, Nikhil Chopra 24 batting; Ashwani Gupta 48-5) vs Jammu & Kashmir: 125 ( Nikhil Chopra 38-4, Rohit 8-2)