Mumbai were on course to end day one in a commanding position against Railways but lost three wickets in quick succession towards the close of play to end at 244/5. Ahil Herwadkar and the hard-hitting Shreyas Iyer had set the tone for the reigning champions with breezy half-centuries. Herwadkar missed the three-figure mark by four runs.

Former champions Karnataka put up a poor batting display, but K Gowtham's entertaining half-century helped his side stitch 78 for the last wicket and stretch their first-innings total to 267. Vidarbha's Lalit Yadav picked up five wickets, a feat that was matched by Tamil Nadu's K Vignesh.

Unmukt Chand's Delhi toiled against Jharkhand on day one and were hammered by Ishan Kishan's terrific 162 not out. Punjab thought they had done enough against Uttar Pradesh but Eklavya Dwivedi and Kuldeep Yadav's fifties saw advantage slowly slip away from them.

Railways fight back against Mumbai

Mumbai's heroes from last year's campaign, Akhil Herwadkar and Shreyas Iyer, were in great form on day one at the picturesque Mysore stadium. Herwadkar fell four short of a hundred. Iyer also looked set to get to a three-figure score, but his breezy knock ended with Karan Thakur trapping him leg-before. Railways skipper Karn Sharma proved to be lethal in the closing stages of the day's play, snaring the wickets of Aditya Tare and Siddhesh Lad. The well-set Suryakumar Yadav is still at the crease for Mumbai but the pendulum has swung in the way of Railways.

K Vignesh runs through Baroda

K Vignesh and Aswin Christ ran through the Baroda lineup to put Tamil Nadu in command at the end of play on day one. Skipper Abhinav Mukund built on his excellent form and was unbeaten on 40 at the close of play. Tamil Nadu, after a slow start to the season, have bounced back and sit pretty in Raipur, only 14 runs behind behind Baroda, who were shot out for 93.

UP's middle-order frustrates Punjab

Punjab looked on course to make amends for going down in their previous game after scalping five Uttar Pradesh wickets for 142 runs. However, Eklavya Dwivedi, Rinku Singh and Kuldeep Yadav's half-centuries swung the momentum in Uttar Pradesh's favour. Yadav and Saurabh Kumar had built an unbeaten 58-run stand for the seventh wicket as stumps was called. Shubek Gill picked up three wickets for Punjab.

Brief scores:

J&K 162 (Shubham Khajuria 48; Mayank Dagar 4/33) lead Himachal Pradesh 58/2 (Ankit Khalsi 25 not out) by 104 runs

Mumbai 244/5 (Akhil Herwadkar 96, Shreyas Iyer 70; Karn Sharma 3/56) vs Railways

Uttar Pradesh 300/6 (Kuldeep Yadav 62, Eklavya Dwivedi 60; Shubek Gill 3/52) vs Punjab

Jharkhand 359/6 (Ishan Kishan 162 not out; Varun Sood 2/48) vs Delhi

Services 170/3 (Anshul Gupta 72; C Stephen 2/35) vs Andhra

Chhatisgarh 103/2 (Amandeep Khare 58 not out; Rituraj Singh 1/31) vs Goa

Haryana 227/8 (Rohit Parmod Sharma 51 not out; Sandeep Warrier 4/60) vs Kerala

Karnataka 267 (K Gowtham 60 not out; Lalit Yadav 5/67) lead Vidharbha 10/0 (Sanjay Ramaswamy) by 257 runs

Rajasthan 249/5 (SF Khan 65 not out; Deepak Behera 1/37) vs Odisha

Baroda 93 (Kedar Devdhar 26; K Vignesh 5/23) lead Tamil Nadu 79/1 (Abhinav Mukund 40 not out; Sagar Mangalorkar 1/24) by 14 runs