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NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 21:
 

        K B Pavan, Pinal Shah and Robin Bisht shone with the bat while Akshay Wakharia and Aaron Heal excelled with the ball on day one of the second round matches of the Buchi Babu memorial cricket tournament here yesterday. Pavan's unbeaten 182 helped Karnataka amass 351 for 5 in the allotted 90 overs against Assam, while Gujarat captain Pinal scored an elegant 160 not out against former Ranji champions Baroda.

        The match between Rajasthan and Punjab saw the latter's captain Robin do the bulk of his team's scoring with a dedicated unbeaten 114.

        Vidarbha right arm medium pacer Akshay claimed 5 for 68 in restricting local team Combined districts to 299 all out in 86.5 overs, while the Australian Sports Institute dismissed Andhra for 195, thanks to a fine effort by Heal, who claimed 4 wickets for 24 runs. The visitors replied with 110 for six in 27.4 overs.

        Scores

        Combined Districts (1st Innings) 299 all out in 86.5 overs (R Srinivasan 97, E.Suresh 87, Ankush Lokhande 4/60, Akshay Wakharia 5/68). Vidarbha (1st Inngs) three without loss in 10 overs (Jayesh Gongaokar Batting 2l Amit Deshpande batting 1) Baroda (1st innings) 330 for 7 in 90 overs (Sumit Parmar 56, G Shatrunjay Gaekwad 51, Pinal Shah 160 no, Ketan Panchal 41, Siddarth Trivedi 3/54 and Monish Parmar 2/97) versus Gujarat.

        Andhra (1st Innings) 195 all out in 61.4 overs (A S K Varma 86, P K Ganeshkumar 48, Aaron Heal 4/24) and Australia (1st Innings) 110 for six in 27.4 overs (Phil Hughes 34, Mike Hill 43, Gnaneshwar Rao 2/24 and M Suresh 2/11) Tripura (1st Innigs) 219 all out in 77.4 overs (Samrat Sinha 49, Nirupam Sen Choudhary 37, Anirudha Saha 40, Sanjay Pande 3/39, Mayank Jadav 3/52, Ashutosh Jadav 3/42 and MP (1st Innings) 35 without loss in 10 overs (Jatin Saxena batting 14 and Roshan Srivatsava batting 21).

        Rajasthan (1st Innigs) 270 for 6 in 90 overs (Naresh Gehlot 28, Robin Bisht 114 not out, Sanjay Bharti 53, Vinod Chawrasia 31 not out, Manpreet Singh 5/60) versus Punjab.

        Karnataka(1st Innings) 351 for 5 in 90 overs (K B Pavan 182 not out,Raju Bhatkal 53 not out, Arlen Konawar 2/75) vs Assam TNCA (1st Innings) 202 all out in 82.3 overs (M Vijay 58, R Ashwin 25, Avishkar Salvi 4/18, Shemal Waingankar 2/16) and Mumbai (1st Innings) seven without loss in 5 overs (Shahil Kukreja batting 6 and Aginkya Rahane batting 1) Hyderabad (1st Innings).

        T Suman 58, Soni Cherubathur 3/26, R Vincent 2/39, K J Rajesh 2/18) and Kerala (1st Innings) 118 for 3 in 41 overs (Sambhashiva Sharma batting 62 and K J Rajesh batting 8).