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Classy knocks from Devdutt Padikkal (81 n.o.) and Karun Nair (74 n.o.) drove Karnataka to a 55-run triumph (via VJD method) implicit Mumbai successful its Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinal astatine the BCCI CoE (1) crushed present connected Monday.
The duo took Karnataka to a comfy 187 for 1 successful pursuit of 255. Play was called disconnected owed to atrocious airy and drizzle, starring to Karnataka being declared the winner.
Under overcast conditions, the transportation offered zip and bounce, making tally scoring difficult. Padikkal and Karun executed the pursuit efficiently successful this tricky setting.
Padikkal, the highest run-scorer of the tournament, benefitted immensely from 2 dropped catches. Batting connected 24, the southpaw was enactment down by Omkar Tarmale, who hardly got his hands connected the shot moving successful from fine-leg. A abbreviated portion later, Padikkal could hardly judge his luck erstwhile Angkrish Raghuvanshi spilled a regularisation accidental astatine slip.
Karun returned to signifier aft a little slump. He felt the mediate of the bat early, erstwhile a crunching back-foot thrust got him disconnected the people successful the 3rd delivery.
A depleted Mumbai recovered it hard to support up. The likes of Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dube were distant connected India duty, and the broadside took different large stroke erstwhile signifier batter Sarfaraz Khan was ruled retired owed to an injury. Fast bowler Tushar Deshpande was different absentee, retired for idiosyncratic reasons.
Mumbai was successful occupation aft being asked to bat, with the four-pronged Karnataka seam onslaught making the astir of the adjuvant conditions. Vidyadhir Patil extracted conscionable reward for sticking to the corridor of uncertainty, scalping 3 wickets.
From 60 for four, it was near to Shams Mulani (86, 91b, 8x4) to propulsion disconnected a rescue act. Siddhesh Lad (38) provided support, portion Sairaj Patil (33 n.o., 25b, 5x4, 1x6) swung his bat astir successful the decease to springiness Mumbai a respectable score.
In different curtailed quarterfinal, Saurashtra rode connected an unbeaten period from skipper Harvik Desai to decision Uttar Pradesh astatine the BCCI CoE (2).
The lucifer was evenly poised with Saurashtra connected 238 for three, chasing 311. When the covers came on, Saurashtra was somewhat up of the curve successful the VJD calculations.
In the semifinal, Karnataka volition look the victor of the Delhi v Vidarbha quarterfinal, which volition beryllium held present connected Tuesday. Saurashtra takes connected the victor of the Punjab v Madhya Pradesh outing.
The scores: Quarterfinals:
Mumbai 254/8 successful 50 overs (Shams Mulani 86) mislaid to Karnataka 187/1 successful 33 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 81 n.o., Karun Nair 74 n.o.) (by 55 runs via VJD method).
Uttar Pradesh 310/8 successful 50 overs (Abhishek Goswami 88, Sameer Rizvi 88 n.o.) mislaid to Saurashtra 238/3 successful 40.1 overs (Harvik Desai 100 n.o., Prerak Mankad 67, Chirag Jani 40 n.o.) (by 17 runs via VJD method).
