Vadodara, bowled out for 125, struck back to reduce Gujarat to 97 for five. But Gujarat batted bravely to take the lead. At close Baroda were 110 for the loss of two wickets.

SCOREBOARD

Baroda (1st innings): 125.

Gujarat (1st innings): Amrish Kotecha c Mevada b Tandon 4, Nilesh Modi c Mevada c Kadri 30, Mihir Seth b Kadri 19, Mukund Parmar lbw Kadri 0, K Damani c Mevada b Tandon 20, Keyur Padia c Swaroop b Tandon 27, Pathik Patel c Mevada b Tandon 41, Vijay Patel not out 18, Hiren Patel b Tandon 0, Rakesh Patel lbw Kadri 15, Bhavik Patel lbw Kadri 0. Extras (b4 lb6, w5, nb2): 17. Total (all out in 94.1 overs): 191.

Fall Of Wickets: 1-4, 2-54, 3-58, 4-75, 5-82, 6-145, 7-162, 8-162, 9-189

Bowling: Tandon 31-9-86-5, Wakaskar 22-10-31-0, Kadri 21.1-9-33-5, Swaroop 2-0-7-0, Mulherkar 13-8-13-0, Arothe 5-1-11-0.

Baroda (2ndinnings): M Kadri c P Patel b B Patel 11, C Williams batting 41, H Jadav c P Patel b R Patel 3, J Martin batting 36. Extras (b1, lb10, w3, nb5): 19. Total (for 2 wickets off 36 overs): 110.

Fall Of Wickets: 1-15, 2-33

Bowling: B Patel 11-3-29-1, R Patel 12-2-27-1, Seth 6-1-18-0, H Patel 6-0-25-0, Damani 1-1-0-0.

Bharadwaj slams 200

THALLASSERY: Vijay Bharadwaj's career best unbeaten knock of 200 (259b, 368m, 23x4, 1x6) and his two partnerships for the fifth (148 with Tilak Naidu) and seventh wicket (173 with Anand Yalvigi) helped Karnataka declare their first innings at 583 for seven against Kerala in the South Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match here.

Brief Scores

Karnataka 583-7 (Sujith Somasundar 89, Arunkumar 70, Vijay Bharadwaj 200 n.o. A Yalvigi 95; Ramprakash 2-111, Sreekumar Nair 2-101) vs Kerala 105-1 (S Shanker batting 45).

Srinivas shines

CHENNAI: I Srinivas' century (105: 220m, 14x4, 1x6) and his 185-run stand with RV Ch Prasad (94:203m, 6x4), helped Andhra pile up 495 against TN in the South Zone match. At close, TN were 68 for no loss.

Brief Scores

Andhra 495 (Y Venugopala Rao 52, RV Ch Prasad 94, I Srinivas 105, LN Prasada Reddy 62; S Mahesh 4-132, T Kumaran 4-168) vs TN 68-0 (S Ramesh batting 51, WV Raman batting 13)

Hyderabad in command

HYDERABAD: Goa were 122 for three at close in their South Zone Ranji Trophy league tie against Hyderabad today. Earlier, Hyderabad, resuming at the overnight 268 for one, declared their innings at 438 for three.

Brief Scores

Hyderabad 438-3 decl (Arvind Shetty 87, Daniel Manohar 132, Nanda Kishore 81, Vanka Pratap 49 n.o., D Vinay Kumar 49 n.o.) vs Goa 122-3 (Vivek Kalamkar batting 41, Avinash Dabolkar 34; V Raju 2-35)

Orissa take lead

JAMSHEDPUR: Orissa secured five points by virtue of their first innings lead against Bihar in the East Zone match which ended in a draw.

Brief Scores

Orissa 424 drew with Bihar 287 and 329-8(Tariq-ur-Rahman 94, N Ranjan 70, R Kumar 65, V Saxena 46; S Satpathy 3-93).