Services were 198 for the loss of five wickets in 90 overs at the end of the first day of the Ranji Trophy encounter with Kerala, being played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. For Services R S Paliwal scored 73, S M Swain 33, while Yashpal Singh remained unbeaten with a fine knock of 36. Rohan Prem of Kerala took two wickets for 18 runs, while Manu Krishnan, Prashanth Parameshwaran and P Prashanth took one wicket each.