VADODARA, NOV 15: Southpaw Niraj Patel's compact and stroke-filled 64 stood out as Gujarat plodded to 204 for five on the opening day of the West Zone Ranji Trophy match against Vadodara, who won the toss and opted to field, at the IPCL ground here on Monday.ScoreboardGujarat (1st innings): Amrish Kotecha b Zaheer 29, Nilesh Modi c Mongia b Kadri 46, Niraj Patel c Mulherkar b Kadri 64, Mukund Parmar c Mongia b Kadri 32, Tejas Varsani batting 11, Kirat Damani c Swaroop b Wakaskar 12, Mihir Sheth batting 1. Extras (b4, lb4, nb1): 9Total (for five wickets): 204.Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-89, 3-176, 4-179, 5-199.Bowling: Zaheer 21-11-44-1, Wakaskar 12-2-38-1, R Patel 15-6-35-0, Kadri 11-5-28-3, Arothe 11-4-23-0, Swaroop 14-4-20-0, Mulherkar 6-3-8-0.SOUTH ZONEAt Chennai, TN vs Kerala: Tamil Nadu 225-5 (S Sharath batting 91, Anand George 57; Ranjit Menon 3-44) vs Kerala.At Bangalore: Goa 189 (V Kolambkar 72; GN Umesh 4-42, AKatti 4-29) vs Karnataka 44-2.At Hyderabad: Andhra 300-5 (LN Prasad Reddy 37, Amit Pathak 56, Nagini Kumar 27, Venugopala Rao 72 not out, RVCH Prasad 79; Mohd Azharuddin 3-36) vs Hyderabad.EAST ZONEAt Agartala: Bihar 174 and 231 bt Tripura 172 and 182 (A Vilaskar 58; KVP Rao 5-65, Avinash Kumar 5-47) by 51 runs.At Calcutta: Assam 347 and 228-5 (Tariq Rahman batting 103) vs Bengal (Rohan Gavaskar 63, Srikant Kalyani 59, Wrichik Majumdar not out 68; Sukhbinder Singh 5-113).NORTH ZONEAt Rohtak: Haryana 222 & 361 (R Puri 56, S Dalal 57, A Ratra 75; S Singh 6-85) vs Himachal Pradesh 152 & 98-5.At New Delhi: J&K 221 & 200 (Amit Pal Singh 34, Ahswani Gupta 33; S Javed 3-24, Sachin Kulkarni 4-58) vs Services 263 & 24-2.At Ludhiana: Punjab 530-7 decl vs Delhi 405-6 (Ashu Dani 140, Vijay Dahiya 42, Virender Sehwag batting 96; Harbhajan Singh 3-104).
