Ranji Trophy 2026/27 scorecard updates and best performers on Day 3 of the 1st round

Jammu and Kashmir, who beat Karnataka in the final of the previous season of the Ranji Trophy, look to defend their title during the 2026/27 season of the competition. The notable Indian players, including KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and others, were present in the first round of the games, as they prepare for the Test series against New Zealand.  

Some of the leading performers of the ODI side of the Indian side also returned for the domestic red-ball event. The first round showed some supreme performances from the batting and bowling departments.

Ranji Trophy 2026/27 Group A: Scorecard Updates and Best Performers

Here are all the scorecard updates and the best performers of all the games of the first round of the event from Group A after Day 3-

Uttar Pradesh 540 (Madhav Kaushik 150, Rinku Singh 112, Amdo Yadav 4/91) beat Bihar 141 (Mangal Mahrour 25, Kartik Yadav 4/26) & 132 (Mangal Mahrour 27, Zeeshan Ansari 4/40) by innings and 267 runs.

Goa 35/1 (f/o) (Abhinav Tejrana 14*, Mahesh Pithiya 1/10) & 199 (Lalit Yadav 54, Mahesh Pithiya 5/58, Bhargav Bhatt 4/51) trail Baroda 472/8 dec (Atit Sheth 99, Shashwat Rawat 69, Mohit Redkar 3/120) by 238 runs.

Vidarbha 22/1 (Aman Mokhade 15*, Neyan Kangayan 1/1) & 428 (Akshay Wadkar 198, Yash Rathod 134, Sagar Udeshi 4/86) lead Puducherry 313 (Ritesh Gudge 95, Aman Mokhade 3/35) by 137 runs.

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Madhya Pradesh 151/5 (Shubham Sharma 51*, Auqib Nabi 2/31) & 196 (Shubham Sharma 79, Sunil Kumar 4/69) lead Jammu & Kashmir 120 (Kanhaiya Wadhawan 35*, Aryan Pandey 3/29) by 227 runs.

Ranji Trophy 2026/27 Group B: Scorecard Updates and Best Performers

Here are all the scorecard updates and the best performers of all the games of the first round of the event from Group B after Day 3-

Punjab 286/5 (Vihaan Malhotra 103, Swarupam Purkayastha 2/52) trailed Assam 373 (Sibsankar Roy 143*, Denish Das 103, Umesh Yadav 5/70) by 86 runs.

Saurashtra 45/0 (Chirag Jani 30*) & 392 (Prerak Mankad 129, Ravindra Jadeja 102, Dev Singh 5/67) lead Chhattisgarh 312 (Mayank Verma 68, Ravindra Jadeja 3/40) by 125 runs.

Karnataka 176/4 (Karun Nair 81, Saurah Kumar 3/41) & 274 (Smaran Ravichandran 126, Saurabh Kumar 3/69) lead Andhra 418 (Seeram Rahul 119, Revanth Reddy 97, Shikhar Shetty 6/115) by 32 runs.

Hyderabad 294 (Ruthik Mende 61, Sandip Sarkar 8/96) beat Tripura 134 (Bikram Kumar Das 50, Aniketh Reddy 5/21) & 120 (Senthu Sarkar 120, Tanay Thyagarajan 6/52) by innings and 40 runs.

Ranji Trophy 2026/27 Group C: Scorecard Updates and Best Performers

Here are all the scorecard updates and the best performers of all the games of the first round of the event from Group C after day 3-

Odisha 119/4 (Ninad Rathva 53*, Arzan Nagwaswalla 3/18) & 324 (Gourav Choudhury 137, Sandeep Pattnaik 69, Arzan Nagwaswalla 3/65) lead Gujarat 439 (Vedant Trivedi 108, Urvil Patel 85, Badai Biswal 5/118) by 4 runs.

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Delhi 101/3 (Anuj Rawat 25*, Akash Deep 1/15) & 240 (Hrithik Shokeen 56, Mohammed Shami 4/30) trail Bengal 429 (Abishek Porel 149, Sudip Gharami 133, Ayush Badoni 5/43) by 88 runs.  

Kerala 269/6 (Abhishek Nair 126, Utkarsh 3/54) trail Jharkhand 587 (Aditya Singh 147, Shikhar Mohan 143, Vaisakh Chandran 5/166) by 318 runs.

Maharashtra 66/5 (Ankit Bawne 32*, Arjun Sharma 4/30) & 333 (Ankit Bawne 118, Arjun Sharma 4/75) lead Services 227 (Nitin Tanwar 61, Hitesh Walunj 5/51) by 172 runs.

Ranji Trophy 2026/27 Group D: Scorecard Updates and Best Performers

Here are all the scorecard updates and the best performers of all the games of the first round of the event in India from Group D after day 3-

Rajasthan 363 (Karan Lamba 113, Rohan Rajbar 95, P Saravana Kumar 3/68) & 81/4 (Kartik Sharma 30*, R Sai Kishore 2/25) lead Tamil Nadu 274 (Andre Siddharth C 81, Kukna Ajay Singh 5/51) by 170 runs.

Haryana 26/3 (Himanshu Rana 11*, Arpit Guleria 2/16) & 296 (Yashvardhan Dalal 72, Aryaman Dhaliwal 4/72) need 45 runs against Himachal Pradesh 253 (Akash Vasisht 113*, Anshul Kamboj 4/56) & 113 (Vaibhav Kalta 31, Parth Vats 3/22)

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Mumbai 429 (Siddhesh Lad 86, Musheer Khan 65, Raj Bawa 4/73) beat Chandigarh 78 (Nishunk Birla 33, Tushar Deshpande 5/17) & 196 (f/o) (Arjun Azad 62, Tanush Kotian 3/30) by innings and 155 runs.

Railways 34/0 (Vivek Singh 18*) & 278 (Vivek Singh 112, Devendra Singh Bora 5/49) trail Uttarakhand 470 (Saurabh Rawat 107, Raj Choudhary 3/94) by 158 runs.