Bowlers rule the day for Karnataka

Karnataka bowlers, led by Ronit More (4/20), produced a disciplined effort to drub Saurashtra by 73 runs for their third straight victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday.

In their Group D encounter, Karnataka, put into bat, were bowled out for a modest 201 in 47.1 overs. Mayank Agarwal top scored with 89 and forged a fifth-wicket stand of 49 runs with Stuart Binny (32). Kushang Patel impressed for Saurashtra with figures of four for 36 while Chirag Jani bagged three for 40.

In response, Saurashtra lost wickets at regular intervals and  were bundled out for 128 runs. More’s fine performance was complemented well by Binny (2/37) and Prasidh Krishna (2/19). 

Brief scores: Group A: At Delhi: Assam: 207 all out in 48.2 overs (Kunal Saikia 29, Arun Karthik 56, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 53, Amit Sinha 26; Basant Mohanty 5-26, Deepak Behera 3-47, Dhiraj Singh 2-36) lt to Odisha: 213/1 in 35.3 overs (Anurag Sarangi 104, Govinda Poddar 100 n.o.). Odisha: 4; Assam: 0.

Baroda: 249 all out in 48.3 overs (Aditya Waghmode 54, Krunal Pandya 78, Irfan Pathan 37; Sandeep Sharma 2-40, Siddharth Kaul 3-57, Baltej Singh 4-47) bt Punjab: 174 all out in 40.4 overs (Mandeep Singh 43, Gurkeerat Singh 62; Hardik Pandya 3-26, Soaeb Tai 3-36, Atit Sheth 2-24). Baroda: 4; Punjab: 0.

Railways: 199 all out in 41.4 overs (Asad Pathan 46, Manjeet Singh 54; Akshay Karnewar 3-32, Ravikumar Thakur 2-47) lt to Vidarbha: 200/2 in 45.2 overs (Faiz Fazal 53, Jitesh Sharma 84, Ganesh Satish 36). Vidarbha: 4; Railways: 0. 

Group B: At Cuttack: Maharashtra: 367/8 in 50 overs (Vijay Zol 35, Naushad Shaikh 52, Kedar Jadhav 113, Nikhil Naik 63, Ankit Bawne 29; Kulwant Khejroliya 2-35, Navdeep Saini 2-76, Nitish Rana 2-42) bt Delhi: 172 all out in 33.4 overs (Gautam Gambhir 53, Milind Kumar 38; Pradeep Dadhe 2-48, Jagdish Zope 5-19).  Maharashtra: 4; Delhi: 0.
Himachal Pradesh: 216 all out in 49.5 overs (Robin Bist 57, Ankit Kaushik 62, Pankaj Jaiswal 30; A Aswin Crist 5-31, Antony Das 2-64) lt to Tamil Nadu: 217/2 in 42.2 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 107 not out, Baba Aparajith 52, Dinesh Karthik 45; Akshay Chauhan 2-39). Tamil Nadu: 4; Himachal Pradesh: 0.

At Bhubaneswar: Uttar Pradesh: 197 all out in 41.2 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 100; Abhijit Sarkar 3-14, Ajoy Sarkar 4-47, Udiyan Bose 2-31) lt to Tripura: 198/8 in 43.2 overs (Udiyan Bose 45, Smit Patel 53, Gurinder Singh 64 not out; Ankit Rajpoot 2-28, Kuldeep Yadav 2-32, Piyush Chawla 3-37). Tripura: 4; Uttar Pradesh: 0. 

Group C: At Chennai: Goa: 213/9 in 50 overs (Sumiran Amonkar 30, Amogh Sunil Desai 49, Saurabh Dandekar 32; Kanishk Seth 3-50, Aamir Gani 2-48) lt to Bengal: 214/2 in 35.5 overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 68 not out, Manjot Tiwary 116 not out). Bengal: 4; Goa: 0.

Rajasthan: 183 all out in 47 overs (Arjit Gupta 69, KL Nagarkoti 56 n.o.; Ishwar Chaudhary 2-20, Jasprit Bumrah 2-38, Chirag Parmar 2-25) bt Gujarat: 169 all out in 43.1 overs (Samit Gohel 28, Bharghav Merai 51, Rujul Bhatt 49; Pankaj Singh 3-23, Nathu Singh 2-31, KL Nagarkoti 3-30). Rajasthan: 4; Gujarat: 0.

Madhya Pradesh: 214 all out in 45.1 overs (Akit Dane 46, Sohraab Dhaliwal 51; Shardul Thakur 3-27) bt Mumbai: 134 all out in 38.4 overs (Chandrakant Sakure 5-25, Saransh Jain 3-30). Madhya Pradesh: 4; Mumbai: 0.

Group D: At Kalyani: Services: 276/9 in 50 overs (Gaurav Kochar 50, Nakul Verma 48, Abhijit Salvi 31, Shamsher Yadav 54 n.o., Rahul Singh 40; Shahbaz Nadeem 3-52, Rahul Shukla 2-58) lt to Jharkhand: 279/3 in 46.2 overs (Ishan Kishan 33, Saurabh Tiwary 102 n.o., Ishant Jaggi 116 n.o.). Jharkhand: 4 points; Services: 0.

At Kolkata: Chhattisgarh: 235/9 in 50 overs (Amandeep Khare 57, Abhimanyu Chauhan 90 n.o., Ashutosh Singh 31; Mohammed Mudhasir 6-33) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 231 all out in 48.2 overs (Shubham Khajuria 26, Parvez Rasool 51, Puneet Bisht 68; Pankaj Rao 4-35). Chhattisgarh: 4; Jammu & Kashmir: 0.

Karnataka: 201 in 47.1 overs (Mayank Agarwal 89, Stuart Binny 31; Jaydev Unadkat 2-38, Kushang Patel 4-36, Chirag Jani 3-40) bt Saurashtra: 128 all out in 36.2 overs (Jaydev Shah 38, Chirag Jani 25, Shaurya Sanandia 31 n.o.; Ronit More 4-20, Stuart Binny 2-37, Prasidh Krishna 2-19). Karnataka: 4; Saurashtra: 0.