VHT: Sarfaraz slams 75-ball 157; Padikkal cracks third ton

Best batting performances

• Sarfaraz Khan smashed 157 off 75 balls, including 14 sixes, powering Mumbai to 444/8 and an 87-run win over Goa. Brother Musheer Khan and Hardik Tamore (53 off 28) also contributed.
• Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 124 off 113 balls, leading Maharashtra to 331/7 and a 129-run victory over Uttarakhand.
• Sahab Yuvraj (91 off 99) and Ravi Singh (72 off 69) guided Railways to a four-wicket win over Gujarat in a chase of 283.
• Biplab Samantray scored 72 off 74 balls in Odisha's win over Delhi, supported by lower-order contributions from Rajesh Mohanty (17* off 12) and Debabrata Pradhan (21* off 9).
• Ankit Kumar struck an unbeaten 144 off 123 balls (14 fours, 4 sixes) as Haryana chased 275/3 in 43.1 overs against Services, outshining Irfan Ali's 103.
• Vikalp Tiwari (117 off 57 balls, 9 fours, 6 sixes), captain Amandeep Khare (83 off 59), and Aayush Pandey (86 off 104) propelled Chhattisgarh to 355/3 and a 229-run win over Sikkim.
• Utkarsh Singh (123* off 120) and Shikhar Mohan (90 off 108) led Jharkhand to victory, handing Tamil Nadu their third defeat in four games.
• Baba Aparajith (126 off 116), Krishna Prasad (53 off 61), and Eden Apple Tom (40* off 18) orchestrated Kerala's thrilling two-wicket win, chasing 343/7 on the last ball against Rajasthan, despite centuries from Karan Lamba (119*) and Deepak Hooda (86).
• Mayank Agarwal (132 off 124) and Devdutt Padikkal (113 off 116) scored centuries as Karnataka posted 363/4 and beat Puducherry by 67 runs. This is Padikkal's third century of the tournament.
• Yash Dubey (105 off 97) and Shubham Sharma (71 off 75) guided Madhya Pradesh to a four-wicket win over Tripura, overcoming Vijay Shankar's all-round effort (91 off 98 and three wickets).
• In a high-scoring match, Baroda's top three—Nitya Pandya (122 off 110), Amit Pasi (127 off 93), and captain Krunal Pandya (109* off 63)—powered the team to 417/4. Hyderabad's Abhirath Reddy (130 off 90) and Pragnay Reddy (113 off 98) replied strongly, but Baroda won by 37 runs.
• Aryan Juyal (150 off 140 balls) and Priyam Garg (52 off 53) helped Uttar Pradesh beat Assam via VJD method after Assam posted 308, with captain Sumit Ghadigaonkar scoring a century and Sibsankar Roy making 82.

Best bowling performances

• Sukhdeep Bajwa (4/17 in 7.2 overs) dismantled Himachal Pradesh's lineup, setting up Punjab's big win.
• Ankur Panwar took a five-wicket haul to trigger Andhra's collapse in chase of Saurashtra's 254/7.
• Debabrata Pradhan followed his batting cameo with 3/28 in 7.3 overs, dismissing Rishabh Pant and Harsh Tyagi, as Odisha beat Delhi. Rajesh Mohanty and Sambit S Baral took two wickets each.
• Dev Aditya Singh and Ajay Jadav Mandal took four wickets each as Chhattisgarh bowled out Sikkim for 126, defending 355/3.
• Darshan Nalkande (4/33) led Vidarbha's attack, bundling out Chandigarh for 113 in an eight-wicket win.
• Akash Deep (4/32) and Mukesh Kumar (4/16) combined to bowl out Jammu & Kashmir for 63 in 10.3 overs.
• Suraj Kashyap took a five-wicket haul for Bihar in an eight-wicket win over Nagaland in the Plate division.
• Akash Choudhary claimed five wickets for Meghalaya, dismissing Arunachal Pradesh for 189 despite a century from captain Techi Doria.