Chennai - Centuries by Bhushan Chauhan of Saurashtra (111, 180b, 11×4, 1×6) and Kedar Jadav (103, 11×4, 2×6) of Maharashtra featured the opening day of the All India Buchi Babu Memorial cricket tournament here Saturday.

Jadav and Chirag Khurana (27) put on 122 runs for the second wicket as defending champions Maharashtra made 281 all out in 75.4 overs against Hyderabad who were 38 for two in reply at stumps.

Bhushan’s ton and his 143-run partnership with fellow-opener Chirag pathak (77, 7 x4) helped Saurashtra to 350 for seven by close against Assam for whom Syed Mohammed claimed four for 106.

Brief Scorers:

Group A: Maharashtra 281 in 75.4 overs (Kedar Jadhav 103, Rohit Motwani 37, A Lalith Mohan four for 82, Ahmed Quadri two for 56) vs Hyderabad 38 for two in 11.2 overs,

Group B: Mumbai 251 in 89.4 Overs (Swapnil Salvi 66, Kaustab Pawar 53, Gaurav Jathar 32, Nikhil Mandle 31, Bhargav Bhatt four for 62, Ketul Patel three for 76, M Vhora two for 43) vs Baroda,

Group C: Vidarbha 341 for nine in 90 overs (Faiz Fazal 64, Gaurav Upadhyay 70, Ravi Jangid 78, Ranjit Paradkar 40, M Mohammed five for 67) vs TNCA President’s XI.

Group C: Saurashtra 350 for seven in 90 overs (Chirag Pathak 71, Bhushan Chauhan 111, Jaydev Shah 46, Sheldon Jackson 48, Sagar Jogiyani 37, Syed Mohammed four for 106) vs Assam.

Group D: Karnataka 324 for eight in 90 overs (Ganesh Satish 60, Manish Pandey 41, CM Gautham 82, R Vinay Kumar 73 not out, KR Sreejith five for 99) vs Kerala.

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