Ashok Menaria cracked his maiden first-class double hundred and Robin Bist made his best score of 167 to boost defending champions Rajasthan to 521 for 8 declared against Railways in Delhi . Menaria and Bist added 398, 38 short of the tournament-record partnership for the third wicket between Orissa's Shiv Sunder Das and Sanjay Raul against Bengal in 2001-02. Menaria made 230 from 408 deliveries with 24 boundaries while Bist's 167 took 482 balls and more than ten hours. After the duo finally departed, Rajasthan waited to get past the 500-run mark before declaring. Seamer Anureet Singh picked up 5 for 153 for Railways who lost V Cheluvaraj cheaply to end on 32 for 1.
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