Baroda, Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh won their Group A matches on day three of the second round of the Ranji Trophy 2026-27, which began on October 18. Assam, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Sikkim also secured outright results across the other groups.
Group A
Three of the four Group A matches produced outright results. Baroda beat Bihar, Vidarbha beat Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh beat Goa. Vidarbha almost botched a 79-run chase, but they won by three wickets in a thriller against the defending champions.
Madhya Pradesh built a massive 168-run first-innings lead over Pondicherry on the back of Rajat Patidar’s century. Pondicherry started their second innings well and finished the day at 98-1, still trailing by 70 runs.
Baroda 416 & 4-0 beat Bihar 166 & 251 (Mangal Mahrour 138, Bhargav Bhatt 6-53)
Pondicherry 177 & 98-1 (Ritesh Gudge 47*) vs Madhya Pradesh 345 (Rajat Patidar 122, Sagar Trivedi 4-44)
Vidarbha 305 (Ravikumar Samarth 143, Umar Nazir Mir 4-56) & 81-7 (Mandar Mhale 25, Sunil Kumar 4-30) beat Jammu & Kashmir 260 & 123 (Nachiket Bhute 5-48)
Uttar Pradesh 202 (Rinku Singh 118*) & 197 (Aryan Juyal 74, Yash Kasvankar 5-69) beat Goa 164 (Zeeshan Ansari 5-45) & 167 (Suyash Prabhudessai 72, Kartik Yadav 5-37)
Group B
Assam beat Tripura by nine wickets, chasing down a modest target of 36. Manisankar Murasingh’s exceptional 161 ensured Assam had to bat again, but he could not save Tripura from defeat.
Chhattisgarh will hope to bat out a draw after Punjab enforced the follow-on. They ended the day at 123-3, still trailing by 127 runs in their second innings. Andhra slipped to 7-2 in a 398-run chase against Hyderabad, who declared their second innings at 306-7 on the back of Kodimela Himateja’s unbeaten 123.
Saurashtra rode on Sammar Gajjar’s 79 to eke out a seven-run first-innings lead over Karnataka, who had two wickets down in their second innings at the close.
Chhattisgarh 206 & 123-3 (Ayush Pandey 59*) vs Punjab 456 (Uday Saharan 161, Salil Arora 107)
Andhra 184 & 7-2 vs Hyderabad 275 & 306-7d (Kodimela Himateja 123*, Kavuri Saiteja 4-40)
Karnataka 342 & 99-2 vs Saurashtra 349 (Sammar Gajjar 79, Vidwath Kaverappa 4-57)
Assam 334 & 36-1 beat Tripura 62 & 307 (Manisankar Murasingh 161, Mohit Thakur 5-101)
Group C
Bengal defeated Services by 60 runs, thanks to a brilliant four-wicket haul from Pradipta Pramanik. Elsewhere, Kerala are well ahead against Odisha going into the final day.
Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed a brilliant century batting at seven against Jharkhand, helping Maharashtra build a mammoth 358-run first-innings lead. Jharkhand made amends for their poor first-innings show and finished the day at 130-1. The Gujarat vs Delhi clash is heading towards a tame draw.
Odisha 225 (Gourav Choudhary 50, Vaisakh Chandran 4-40) & 102-4 (Gourav Choudhary 53, Jalaj Saxena 2-15) vs Kerala 404 (Mohammed Azharuddeen 139, Sachin Baby 112)
Gujarat 363-5 (Manan Hingarajia 108*) vs Delhi 648-6d (Ayush Badoni 217, Priyansh Arya 199)
Jharkhand 169 (Vicky Ostwal 4-39, Pradeep Dadhe 3-35) & 130-1 (Shikhar Mohan 74*) vs Maharashtra 527-5 (Digvijay Patil 148, Ankit Bawne 169*, Ruturaj Gaikwad 101*)
Bengal 184 & 146 beat Services 122 & 148 (Nitin Tanwar 49, Pradipta Pramanik 4-48)
Group D
R Sai Kishore was the star of the day, picking up a hat-trick against Uttarakhand. He finished with a six-wicket haul to help Tamil Nadu win by an innings and 66 runs.
Mumbai declared their first innings at 528-8 on the back of centuries from Sarfaraz Khan and Akash Anand. Himachal Pradesh’s batters fared better in their second innings and ended the day at 144-3.
Himachal Pradesh 140 (Tushar Deshpande 4-46) & 144-3 vs Mumbai 528-8d (Sarfaraz Khan 154, Akash Anand 117*)
Tamil Nadu 313 (Pradosh Ranjan Paul 136, Baba Indrajith 77, Mayank Mishra 5-118) beat Uttarakhand 134 & 113 (R Sai Kishore 6-34)
Railways 305-6 (Eshaan Goyal 64) vs Rajasthan 497 (Sachin Yadav 194, Karan Lamba 194)
Haryana 245 (Yashvardhan Dalal 95, Nishant Sindhu 92) defeated Chandigarh 103 & 118 (Nishant Sindhu 6-27)
Plate Group
Sedezhalie Rupero starred for Nagaland with an unbeaten century in response to Mizoram’s 581. Nagaland finished the day at 324-3, still trailing by 257 runs.
Manipur need 276 runs to win against Meghalaya after bundling them out for 172 in the second innings. Jotin Pheiroijam led the effort with a four-wicket haul.
Satyajeet Bachhav’s five-wicket haul helped Sikkim skittle Arunachal Pradesh for just 123 in the second innings. Sikkim won the game by an innings and 328 runs.
Nagaland 324-3 (Sedezhalie Rupero 108*) vs Mizoram 581-9d (Chinmay Sutar 400*, Jehu Anderson 69)
Manipur 277 (Karnajit Yumnam 100) & 11-0 vs Meghalaya 380 (Kevin Christopher 110, Pheiroijam Jotin 5-79) & 172 (Rahul Dalal 39, Jotin Pheiroijam 4-21)
Sikkim 572-5d (Parth Palawat 151, Gurinder Singh 146, Nilesh Lamichaney 134) beat Arunachal Pradesh 121 & 123 (Satyajeet Bachhav 5-27)