Vijay Hazare Trophy: Karnataka beats Rajasthan by eight wickets, sets up QF clash with TN

Chasing
200
for
victory
in
the
pre-quarterfinal,
Karnataka
eased
home
with
more
than
six
overs
to
spare.

Earlier,
sent
in
to
bat,
Rajasthan’s
total
of
199
was
built
on
a
brilliant
counter-attacking
knock
of
109
(nine
fours
and
five
sixes)
by
captain
Deepk
Hooda
after
the
team
slipped
to
19
for
5.

Karnataka,
bolstered
by
the
return
of
K
Gowtham,
Devdutt
Padikkal
and
Prasidh
Krishna,
had
Rajasthan
in
all
sorts
of
bother
at
19
for
5
in
the
eighth
over.
Krishna
struck
the
first
blow,
having
the
in-form
Abhijeet
Tomar,
who
has
scored
over
300
runs
including
a
ton
in
the
tournament,
caught
by
Padikkal
for
5.

Right-arm
medium-pacer
Vijaykumar
Vyshak
(4/22)
scalped
the
next
four
wickets,
including
that
of
Mahipal
Lomror
(4),
as
Rajasthan
was
staring
down
the
barrel,
losing
half
the
side
in
the
eighth
over.

Hooda,
who
had
come
in
at
the
fall
of
the
second
wicket
(Manender
Singh),
was
joined
by
Samarpit
Joshi
and
the
duo
began
to
rebuild.
While
the
captain
wasn’t
afraid
to
go
for
the
big
hits,
Joshi
(33
off
63
balls)
gave
him
ample
support.
The
two
added
118
runs
for
the
sixth
wicket
to
give
some
hope
to
Rajasthan
against
a
strong
Karnataka
side.

The
team
hundred
came
up
in
the
24th
over
as
Hooda
and
Joshi
began
to
play
with
confidence.
Despite
losing
Joshi,
Hooda
continued
to
score
runs
and
reached
a
well-deserved
ton
in
99
balls.
He
fell
in
the
41st
over,
stumped
by
S
Sharath
off
leg-spinner
Pravin
Dubey
(1/39)
before
Gowtham
finished
the
innings
off
by
dismissing
Khaleel
Ahmed
(0).

Karnataka
lost
the
talented
Padikkal
(4)
to
Kamlesh
Nagarkoti
(1/27)
even
as
fellow
opener
Samarth
started
brightly
with
a
few
boundaries.
Samarth
and
Siddharth
added
75
runs
in
quick
time
to
put
Karnataka
on
the
road
to
victory.
Pandey
then
came
up
with
an
enterprising
half-century
and
in
the
company
of
Siddharth
added
100
for
the
third
wicket
to
take
the
team
home.

Pandey
finished
the
match
with
a
huge
six
off
leg-spinner
Ravi
Bishnoi,
who
finished
with
none
for
63
from
9.4
overs.
Karnataka
will
take
on
Southern
rival
Tamil
Nadu
in
the
quarterfinals
on
Tuesday.

Brief
scores:
Rajasthan
199
all
out
in
41.4
overs
(Deepak
Jagbir
Hooda
109,
Samarpit
Joshi
33,
Vijaykumar
Vyshak
4
for
22)
lost
to

Karnataka
204
for
2
in
43.3
overs
(K
V
Siddharth
85
not
out,
R
Samarth
54,
Manish
Pandey
52
not
out)
by
eight
wickets.