The Vijay Hazare Cup cricket series is being held in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka clashed in the quarterfinals yesterday. Karnataka won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Accordingly, the first Tamil Nadu team scored 354 runs for the loss of 8 wickets at the end of the allotted 50 overs. Starter Jagadeesan scored a superb century and was dismissed for 102. Ravi Srinivasan scored 61 and Dinesh Karthik 44.
In the last phase, Tamil Nadu player Shah Rukh Khan was unbeaten on 79 runs. Thus
For Karnataka, Praveen Dubey took 3 wickets, Prashid 2 wickets and Vaishak and Kariyappa took 1 wicket each.
Following this, the Karnataka team started with the Himalayan target of 355 runs. But the Tamil Nadu team’s excellent bowling controlled them.
Karnataka were all out for 203 in 39 overs. S. Sarath scored 43 runs. Star player Devat Padikkal stunned the duck out.
Silambarasan took 4 wickets and Washington Sunder took 3 wickets for Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu won by 151 runs and advanced to the semi-finals.
In another quarterfinal match, Himachal Pradesh beat Uttar Pradesh by 5 wickets to advance to the semi-finals.