Unbeaten half-centuries by Vivek Kolambkar and Mandar Phadke helped Goa score 200 runs for the loss of three wickets on the opening day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Plate Group B match against Maharashtra in Pune on Tuesday.

Kolambkar gave the team a good start by scoring 62 runs off 240 balls with six hits to the fence. Swapnil Asnodka chipped in with 49 runs.

Two batsmen, Sagun Kamat and Rajesh Naik, could not keep up the tempo and were sent to the pavilion with single digit scores.

But Phadke helped the team recover by scoring 68 runs off 170 balls with two sixes and five hits to the fence.

For Maharashtra, Ranjit Khirid took two wickets and Kashinath Khadkikar one.

Kolambkar and Phadke were at the crease when stumps were drawn.

Scoreboard:
Goa (first innings):
Vivek Kolambkar batting 62
Swapnil Asnodkar c Satbhai b R Khirid 49
Sagun Kamat c Satbhai b R Khirid 4
Rajesh Naik c Aphale b K Khadkikar 2
Mandar Phadke batting 68
Extras: (lb 7, nb 6, w 2) 15
Total: (for 3 wkts, 91 overs) 200
Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-84, 3-94.
Bowling: Iqbal Siddiqui 19-3-55-0, Ranjit Khirid 20-8-39-2, Charu Kulkarni 13-2-32-0, Hrishikesh Kanitkar 9-5-6-0, Kashinath Khadkikar 23-6-41-1, Kiran Adhav 7-1-20-0

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Scoreboard on the first day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Plate division match between Orissa and Himachal Pradesh in Cuttack on Tuesday:

Orissa (1st innings):
Shiv Sundar Das c S Singh b V Bhatia 28
Subrat Behera c S Sharma b S Singh 38
Niranjan Behera c N Gaur b S Singh 3
Rashmi Ranjan Parida c S Sharma b A Sharma 25
Pravanjan Mullick c M Bisla b V Minhas 27
Sanjay Roul b V Minhas 4
Sukhwinder Singh c A Thakur b V Malik 49
Debashis Mohanty lbw S Singh 9
Sanjay Satpathy c M Bisla b V Bhatia 26
Srikanta Jena c M Bisla b S Singh 11
Deepak Mangaraj not out 4
Extras: (b 3, lb 14, nb 5) 22
Total: (all out in 81.2 overs) 246
Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-74, 3-82, 4-118, 5-132, 6-133, 7-163, 8-216, 9-230
Bowling: Vikramjit Malik 16-3-42-1, Ashok Thakur 14-3-39-0, Vinod Minhas 15-2-47-2, Sangram Singh 12.2-4-39-4, Vishal Bhatia 23-4-60-2, Amit Sharma 1-0-2-1