Mumbai: The final day of Ranji Trophy round three settled most of the matches on Thursday. Mumbai beat Haryana by 10 wickets at home for a third successive win with a bonus point, and Tanush Kotian produced the best figures of his career.
Kotian took 8/81 in the second innings and 10 in the match. Haryana were bowled out for 256 after Samath Jakhar and Anuj Thakral put on 81 for the eighth wicket, a stand Kotian broke. Mumbai needed 97 and Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Divyansh Saxena knocked them off in 10.4 overs. In the first innings Musheer Khan had scored a century and taken 6/85.
Bengal's third innings win in a row came at Mangalapuram, where Kerala were set 408 and folded for 120, a defeat by 287 runs. Pradipta Pramanik took six wickets and Mohammed Shami and Shahbaz Ahmed two each. Shahbaz, who made a century in the first innings and took four wickets across the match, was Player of the Match.
Vidarbha beat Goa by an innings and 27 runs in Nagpur, their third win in three games. Harsh Dubey took 4/38. Manthan Khutkar resisted with 70, but Goa were bowled out for 195. Dhruv Shorey, whose 167 anchored Vidarbha's 442/8 declared, was Player of the Match.
Karnataka beat Tripura by an innings and 116 runs, captain Shreyas Gopal completing a five-wicket haul as Tripura, following on, were dismissed for 180. Aneeshwar Gautam had struck a century in only his second first-class game.
Madhya Pradesh demolished Bihar by an innings and 174 runs, Saransh Jain taking 6/49 in the second innings for 13 wickets in the match. Tamil Nadu chased 129 to beat Railways by five wickets, C Andre Siddarth finishing unbeaten on 56, with R Sai Kishore named Player of the Match.
Saurashtra beat Assam by an innings and 12 runs after Parth Bhut's 6/7 reduced Assam to 65/7. Delhi's game against Jharkhand was drawn with no play on days three and four because of rain; captain Ayush Badoni, 210 not out, was Player of the Match.
Defending champions Jammu and Kashmir stayed afloat against Baroda on Abdul Samad's eighth first-class hundred, a chanceless innings that included 20 runs off one over. Punjab-Hyderabad and Rajasthan-Uttarakhand also ended in draws. Manipur beat Arunachal Pradesh by four wickets.