New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS): Karnataka's Manish Pandey, Bengal's Manish Tiwary and Rajasthan's Ashok Menaria Friday struck double centuries to put their respective teams in commanding positions on day two of the Ranji Trophy matches being played in the Elite Division.

Pandey, who came to bat in the morning after overcoming cramps he suffered on the opening day, smashed an unbeaten 200 off 250 balls to help Karnataka amass 635 for nine in the first innings against Mumbai at the Brabourne Stadium. Amit Verma was not far behind Pandey, scoring 173 off 275.

The visitors resumed the innings on 316 for 5 with Verma stitching a 157-run stand with skipper R. Vinay Kumar, who frustrated Mumbai's bowlers in his 57-run knock. Verma and Pandey shared 183 runs for the third wicket.

Mumbai came out to bat for 12 overs after Karnataka's declaration and were 37 for one at stumps. Ajinkaya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar were batting on 23 and 14.

In Kolkata, Tiwary's marathon innings of 267 along with overnight centurion Arindam Das (105) took Bengal to 496 in the first innings at the Jadavpur University Complex. Former India captain Saurav Ganguly contributed 47.

Madhya Pradesh began their reply on a promising note with captain Naman Ojha leading from the front. Ojha was on 60 while Mohnish Mishra had made 20 in team's 136 for one when play was called-off.

Menaria made 230 as Rajasthan piled up 531 for eight against Railways in Delhi. Robin Bist contributed 167. Railways, who lost the first two opening matches, were 32/1 at stumps.

The match at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi was nicely posed with Tamil Nadu at 281 for 8 in reply to Delhi's 212 in the first innings. Opener Abhinav Mukund was batting on 89.

Scores:
Elite Division
At Delhi : Delhi 212 all out, Tamil Nadu 281 for 8 in 94 overs (Abhinav Mukund not out 89, Ramaswamy Prasanna 59; Ashish Nehra 2 for 70, Pradeep Sangwan 2 for 64).

At Delhi: Rajasthan 531 for 8 decl. in 172 overs (Ashok Menaria 230, Robin Bist 167; Anureet Singh 5 for 153), Railways 32 for 1 in 8 overs (Shivakant Shukla batting 17; Sumit Mathur 1 for 15).

At Mumbai: Karnataka 635 for 9 in 165.2 overs (Manish Pandey 200 not out, Amit Verma 173; Ankeet Chavan 3 for 115), Mumbai 37 for 1 in 12 overs (Ajinkaya Rahane batting 23, Abhishek Nayar not out 14; Vinay Kumar 1 for 16).

At Sambalpur: Orissa 482 all out in 160.3 overs (Biplab Samantray 171, Abhilash Mallick 99; Piyush Chawla 5 for 105), Uttar Pradesh 54 for 1 in 21 overs (Tanmay Srivastava batting 35; Alok Mangaraj 1 for 28).

At Mohali: Saurashtra 542 all out in 162.4 overs (Sagar Jogiyani 164, Shitanshu Kotak 166 not out; Manpreet Gony 6 for 143), Punjab 59 for 3 in 12.4 overs (Sarul Kanwar 36; Jaydev Unadkat 3 for 31).

At Kolkata: Bengal 496 all out in 143.1 overs (Arindam Das 105, Manoj Tiwary 267; Ishwar Pandey 4 for 115), Madhya Pradesh 136 for 1 in 34 overs (Naman Ojha batting 60, Jalaj Saxena 46; Shami Ahmed 1 for 35).

At Vadodara: Haryana 390 in 129.4 overs (Rahul Dewan 164, Nitin Saini 112 ; Murtuja Vahora 5 for 78, Swapnil Singh 3 for 42), Baroda 104 for 1 in 42.5 overs (Aditya Waghmode batting 51, Rakesh Solanki batting 44; Jitnder Billa 1 for 25.

Plate Division
At Delhi: Vidarbha 508 for 6 in 180 overs (Aniruddha Chore 157, Shiv Sunder Das 87; Nishan Singh 3 for 78) vs. Services.

At Vijayawada: Andhra 265 all out in 91.4 overs (Hemal Vatekar 69, Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi 61; Vikramjeet Malik 5 for 58, Vishal Bhatia 3 for47), Himachal Pradesh 267 for 4 in 82 overs (Paras Dogra 106, Varun Sharma batting 69; Paidikalva Vijaykumar 2 for 45).

At Kochi: Tripura 139 all out, Kerala 223 for 5 in 91 overs (VA. Jagadeesh 57, Sachin Baby batting 52).

At Guwahati: Assam 227 all out in 105.4 overs (Sibsankar Roy 80; Anwar Ahmad 4 for 38, Lalith Mohan 4 for 70), Hyderabad 115 for 1 in 55 overs (Akshath Reddy batting 82, Ravi Teja 48; Pritam Das 1 for 41).

At Nashik : Maharashtra 460 all out in 114 overs (Chirag Khurana 123, Rohit Matwani 78, Nikhil Paradkar 87; Shabaz Nadeem 4 for 94), Jharkhand 195 for 7 in 57 overs (Rameez Nemat 79; Shrikant Munde 3 for 64).

At Jammu : Goa 281 all out, Jammu & Kashmir 260 in 74.2 overs (Hardeep Singh 109, Adil Rishi 40; Amit Yadav 4 for 54).