A strong all-round performance from Karnataka gave them a four-wicket victory over Services in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Sunday.
Half-centuries from Robin Uthappa, Pavan Deshpande, Aniruddha Joshi and a solid bowling show from pacer Prasidh Krishna spurred Manish Pandey’s side.
Having won the toss and put Services into bat, Prasidh (3/39) gave his side a good start removing opener Nakul Verma (4) and Amit Pachhara (7) with the scoreboard reading 20 for two.
Thereafter, the Karnataka bowlers continued to apply the pressure on their opponents and despite a few of their batsmen getting starts, Services could only muster 231 for seven in their 50 overs.
Karnataka were rocked in the beginning of their chase by Suraj Yadav who accounted for Mayank Agarwal (0) and R Samarth (1).
Skipper Pandey (23) and Robin Uthappa (51) rebuilt the innings before Deshpande (73) pushed them closer.
Cameos from Joshi (50 off 37) and J Suchith (24 off 18) ensured Karnataka overhauled the target with 35 balls to spare.
Brief scores
Group A: Punjab: 243 all out in 49.4 overs (Shubman Gill 121, Gurkeerat Singh 58; Pritam Das 3-59, Arup Das 3-27) lt to Assam: 247/7 in 48.4 overs (Pallavkumar Das 48, KB Arun Karthik 63, Amit Verma 65; Sandeep Sharma 3-52).
Vidarbha: 251/5 in 45 overs (Faiz Fazal 58, Apoorv Wankhede 62 n.o., Akshay Karnewar 54 n.o) bt Baroda: 229 all out in 42.4 overs (Aditya Waghmode 79, Krunal Pandya 43, Pinal Shah 36; Yash Thakur 3-64).
Railways: 252/7 in 50 overs (Pratham Singh 51, Arindam Ghosh 76; Harshal Patel 2-58, Mohit Sharma 2-60, Rahul Tewatia 2-46) bt Haryana: 181 all out in 38 overs (Rahul Dagar 57, Kadam 4-38, Amit Mishra 2-21).
Group B: Himachal Pradesh: 339/8 in 50 overs (Prashant Chopra 159, Paras Dogra 77, Sumeet Verma 36; Nitin Saini 3-63, Kulwant Khejroliya 3-61) bt Delhi: 154 all out in 37 overs (Sarthak Ranjan 37, Dheeraj Kumar 5-24, Pankaj Jaiswal 3-24).
Maharashtra: 311 all out in 50 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 79, Kedar Jadhav 71, Naushad Shaikh 57, Jalaj Saxena 4-51) bt Kerala: 189 all out in 39.5 overs (Mohammed Azharuddeen 50, Iqbal Abdulla 60; Pradeep Dadhe 4-33, S Kazi 3-25).
Uttar Pradesh: 159 all out in 36 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 31, Rinku Singh 37; Aswin Crist 2-38, M Mohammed 2-34, Rahil Shah 2-25) lt to Tamil Nadu: 160/3 in 27.5 overs (Dinesh Karthik 56 n.o., Vijay Shankar 58 n.o.).
Group C: Madhya Pradesh: 127 all out in 40.2 overs (Saransh Jain 56; D Siva Kumar 3-17, Bandaru Ayyappa 3-33) lt to Andhra Pradesh: 131/8 in 37.5 overs (Hanuma Vihari 58 n.o.; Ishwar Pandey 3-31).
Gujarat: 277/9 in 50 overs (Parthiv Patel 80, Priyank Panchal 57; Rituraj Singh 3-61) bt Goa: 199 all out in 45.5 overs (A Desai 61, Snehal Kauthankar 64; Rujul Bhatt 5-38, Ishwar Chaudhary 3-34).
Rajasthan: 181/9 in 38 overs (Mahipal Lormor 49; Shardul Thakur 3-47) lt to Mumbai: 184/5 in 29.1 overs (Akhil Herwadkar 50, Shreyas Iyer 41, Tajinder Singh 3-45).
Group D: Jharkhand: 243/9 in 50 overs (M S Dhoni 129, Shahbaz Nadeem 53, Anand Singh 32; Abhuday Kant Singh 4-33, Pankaj Rao 3-27) bt Chattisgarh 165 all out in 38.4 overs (Varun Aaron 3-26, Shahbaz Nadeem 3-36).
Services: 231/7 in 50 overs (Diwesh Pathania 49, Suraj Yadav 44 n.o., Abhijit Salvi 30, Shamsher Yadav 37; Prasidh Krishna 3-39 Aniruddha Joshi 2-32) lt to Karnataka: 232/6 in 44.1 overs (Pavan Deshpande 73, Robin Uthappa 51, A Joshi 50 n.o.; S Yadav 2-37).
Hyderabad: 312/7 in 50 overs (Akshath Reddy 154, Kolla Sumanth 91; Kushang Patel 3-54) bt Saurashtra: 199 all out in 38.5 overs (Prerak Mankad 104, Jaydev Shah 34; Chama Milind 4-30, Ravi Kiran 2-46, Mehdi Hassan 2-44).
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> Sports / Kolkata Agencies / February 27th, 2017
