Mandeep hit 25 boundaries en route to his century-plus innings that came off 264 balls. Apart from Mandeep, Karan Goel scored 68 off 141 balls during which he struck 11 fours, while Mayank Sidhana made 37 off 57 balls.
However, Punjab’s start was far from rosy after out-of-favour India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh won the toss and elected to bat at the PCA stadium.
Brief scores: Elite League:
Group A: At Cuttack: Saurashtra: 305/5 in 90 overs (Bhushan Chauhan 83, Ravindra Jadeja 141 batting, Basant Mohanty 2-50) vs Orissa.
At Mohali: Punjab: 329/5 in 91 overs (Sarul Kanwar 38, Karan Goel 68, Mandeep Singh 158 batting, Mayank Sidhana 37; Rudra Pratap Singh 4-60) vs Uttar Pradesh.
At Delhi: Mumbai: 338/5 in 90 overs (Kaustubh Pawar 31, Wasim Jaffer 33, Rohit Sharma 133, Suryakumar Yadav 88) vs Railways.
Group B:
At Kolkata: Bengal: 261/4 in 90 overs (Arindam Ghosh 29, Manoj Tiwary 120 batting, Sourav Ganguly 34, Wriddhiman Saha 41 batting; Priyank Panchal 2-22) vs Gujarat.
At Delhi: Haryana: 256/7 in 89 overs (Rahul Dewan 26, Sunny Singh 51, Abhimanyu Khod 68, Sachin Rana 80; Pradeep Sangwan 3-54, Parvinder Awana 2-72) vs Delhi.
At Chennai: Tamil Nadu vs Baroda (play on day one called off after several inspections due to persistent rain).
Plate League:
Group A: At Delhi: Andhra: 206/7 in 90 overs (Bodapati Sumanth 70, AG Pradeep 80, Suraj Yadav 2-42, Nishan Singh 3-50) vs Services
At Agartala: Himachal Pradesh: 347/2 in 90 overs (Abhinav Bali 122, Paras Dogra 174 batting) vs Tripura
At Nagpur: Vidarbha: 274/4 in 90 overs (Shiv Sunder Das 30, Shalabh Shrivastava 84 batting, Hemang Badani 32, Ranjit Paradkar 47 batting, Padmanabhan Prasanth 2-35) vs Kerala.
Group B: At Porvorim: Maharashtra 286/4 in 90 overs (Harshad Khadiwale 38, Sangram Atitkar 52, Nikhil Paradkar 67, Ankit Bawne 60 batting, Rohit Motwani 68 batting; Robin D'Souza 2-50) vs Goa
At Uppal: Hyderabad: 129/1 in 41 overs (Akshath Reddy 61, Ravi Teja 59 batting) vs Jharkhand
At Srinagar: Assam: 297/4 in 90 overs (Dheeraj Jadhav 135 batting, Tarjinder Singh 44, Gokul Sharma 46 batting; Raman Dutta 2-56) vs Jammu & Kashmir.