VHT: Shreyas Iyer sizzles on return; Padikkal makes 91

Best batting performances

In his first competitive game since returning from injury, Shreyas Iyer hammered 82 off just 53 balls against Himachal. While Yashasvi Jaiswal made 15, Musheer Khan hit a rapid 73 as a star-studded Mumbai made 299/9 in a shortened encounter. Himachal fell short by just 7 runs, with Shivam Dube taking four wickets.

Devdutt Padikkal delivered yet again but fell short of a century by 9 runs. His opening partner Mayank Agarwal registered a century as Karnataka posted 324/7. Prasidh Krishna then took a five-wicket haul to bowl Rajasthan out for 174.

21-year-old opener Aman Rao, in just his second List A game for Hyderabad, struck an unbeaten double-century of 200, including 13 sixes, as Hyderabad made 352/5. Bengal, despite a century from Shahbaz Ahmed, lost by 107 runs.

Vishnu Vinod hammered an unbeaten 162 off just 84 balls, with 14 sixes, to guide Kerala to victory against Puducherry. It is the second-highest score in List A cricket by a Kerala batter.

Centuries from Priyanshu Moliya and Vishnu Solanki powered Baroda to a 76-run win over Jammu and Kashmir. Chasing 333, J&K were bowled out for 256.

Skipper Harvik Desai smashed a century and added 140 for the first wicket with Vishvaraj Jajeja (71) to set up Saurashtra's total of 349/5. Services were bowled out for 238.

Andhra and Haryana played out a thrilling tie. Himanshu Rana's century for Haryana was matched by a hundred from CR Gnaneshwar for Andhra, with the game ending level via the VJD method.

Opener Saurabh Rawat hit 112 off 87 balls to guide Uttarakhand to a six-wicket win over Sikkim, who had posted 219/8.

Chandigarh openers Manan Vohra and Arjun Azad both hit centuries in a 244-run opening stand to chase down Assam's 284/9 with ease.

An all-round show from Utkarsh Singh and a century from Shikhar Mohan saw Jharkhand prevail over Madhya Pradesh by two wickets. Utkarsh took three wickets and scored a fifty.

Centuries and half-centuries from UP's top order set up a total of 339/5 against Vidarbha. Aman Mokhade's 147 kept Vidarbha in the hunt, but they fell short by 54 runs. Kuldeep Yadav took three wickets.

Best bowling performances

Mayank Markande and Arshdeep Singh shared five wickets to set up Punjab's win over Goa. Markande took three key middle-order wickets, while Arshdeep removed the in-form Lalit Yadav for 54. Punjab chased 211 comfortably.

In a low-scoring thriller, Ravi Kiran and Ajay Mandal shared five wickets as Chhattisgarh defended a modest total to beat Maharashtra by 6 runs in a 31-over contest.

Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, and Ayush Badoni combined to bowl Railways out for 179, with Delhi chasing the target in just 21.2 overs. Priyansh Arya hammered 80 off 41 balls.

Skipper Chintan Gaja's six-wicket haul wrecked Odisha, bowling them out for 100 as Gujarat won by 233 runs. Gujarat had posted 333/6, with Axar Patel scoring 73.

Gurjapneet Singh took 6/20, including the wickets of four top-order batters, to bowl Tripura out and secure a 54-run win for Tamil Nadu, who had posted 259/6.