A star-studded Delhi batting line-up failed to chase 250 against Odisha to suffer their first loss in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.
Biplab Samantaray (63 off 81) and Subhransu Senapati (59 not out off 50) took Odisha to 249 for four in 48-over a side Group B contest at Palam.
Chasing the target, Gautam Gambhir-led Delhi were 240 all out in 48 overs. Suboth Bhati (42 not out off 36) and Navdeep Saini took Delhi on the brink of an improbably victory with a 66-run stand for the 10th wicket but as it turned out, they were left to do too much in the end.
Gambhir (44 off 56) at the top and Rishabh Pant (39 off 33) in the middle order were unable to capitalise on starts, leading to the team's downfall.
Papu Roy and Deepak Behera were the pick of the bowlers for Odisha, taking a couple of wickets each.
In another match played in Palam, Saurashtra beat Madhya Pradesh by seven wickets in a low-scoring affair.
Jaydev Unadkat (4/23) and Dharmendrasinh Jadeja (3/33) helped Saurashtra skittle out Madhya Pradesh for 136 in 45.5 overs.
Saurashtra took their time and completed the chase in 40.3 overs with Cheteshwar Pujara and Arpit Vasavada remaining unbeaten on 36 and 38 respectively.
At Kotla, Andhra beat Chattisgarh by two wickets, completing the 250-run chase on the final ball of the innings.
Maharashtra beat Railways
Bengaluru: Maharashtra produced a clinical show to defeat Railways by seven wickets in a lop- sided Elite Group A match in Bengaluru.
Maharashtra bowlers put up a spirited show to bundle out the Railways for a paltry 180 in 48.2 overs.
And then their batsman took the side home with 8.4 overs to spare at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium with Ruturaj Gaikwad (84 off 93 balls) top-scoring for the side.
In the other two Elite Group A matches, chasing a stiff 297, Himachal Pradesh rode on wicket-keeper batsman Ankush Bains' blistering unbeaten knock of 173 to defeat Vidarha by four wickets.
At Bengaluru, Baroda defeated Karnataka by seven wickets by the VJD method.
Bihar, Uttarakhand on a roll
Vadodara: Leg spinner Samar Quadri foxed Meghalaya with a five-wicket to power Bihar to a 108-run victory and consolidate their position atop the plate group standings.
Defending a paltry 211 for 9, Quadri spearheaded the attack his career-best List A figures of 5 for 22 and was backed up well by former Services left-arm spinner Ashutosh Aman (10-2-15-3) to skittle out Meghalaya for 103 in 42.5 overs.
This was Bihar's hat-trick of wins in four matches, which include one abandoned match, as they sit atop the table with 14 points.
Uttarakhand (12 points) also remained in the hunt at the second spot, registering a hattrick of wins from four matches with a nine-wicket rout of Manipur at the GS Patel Stadium in Nadiad.
One team make the cut to the knock-outs from the plate group.