<p>The seam trio of Shami Ahmed, Veer Pratap Singh and Laxmi Shukla shared eight wickets among them as defending champions Bengal crushed Karnataka by 10 wickets to set up a semifinal clash with Delhi in the National one-day championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Electing to field after winning the toss in the third quarterfinal, Bengal skittled out Karnataka for a paltry 127 runs in 32.1 overs as Shami (3-32), Veer Pratap (3-40) and Shukla (2-20) ripped through their batting line-up at the Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium.<br /><br />At one stage, Karnataka were 57 for six but Manish Pandey (28), Karun Nair (22) and skipper R Vinay Kumar (20) took the team to 127 before they were dismissed.<br /> <br />The Bengal openers, Shreevats Goswami and Wriddhiman Saha, knocked off the target in 28.3 overs to register an emphatic victory. <br /><br />Goswami struck 10 fours and two sixes in his 79-ball 70 not out while Saha played an ably ally with an unbeaten 52 off 93 balls. <br /><br />Assam stun Mumbai<br /><br />Assam’s dream run continued as they stunned Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai by 27 runs to enter the semifinals.<br />Chasing a paltry 179 for win, Mumbai, the last season’s runners-up, batting line-up crumbled in front of a disciplined Assam attack to be bowled out for 151 in 46.5 overs in the quarterfinal.<br /><br /><br />Brief scores: Assam: 178 all out in 47.4 overs (Sibsankar Roy 69, Gokul Sharma 51; Aavishkar Salvi 3-25, Rajesh Verma 3-32) bt Mumbai: 151 all out in 46.5 overs (Shoaib Shaikh 42, Ankeet Chavan 36; Abu Nechim Ahmed 3-31, Pritam Das 2-24).<br /><br />Score board<br /><br />KARNATAKA: KL Rahul c Chatterjee b Ahmed 4; Robin Uthappa c Saha b Pratap 8; Ganesh Satish c Saha b Pratap 6; Manish Pandey c Chatterjee b Pratap 28; CM Gautam c Saha b Shukla 0; Stuart Binny lbw Shukla 4; Karun Nair c Saha b Saxena 22; R Vinay Kumar b Sanyal 20; Abhimanyu Mithun b Ahmed 17; KP Appanna (not out) 9; HS Sharath lbw Ahmed 0; Extras (LB-3, W-6) 9; Total (all out; 32.1 overs) 127.<br />Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-13, 3-46, 4-51, 5-51, 6-57, 7-98, 8-98, 9-121. <br />Bowling: Shami Ahmed 8.1-1-32-3, Veer Pratap Singh 9-1-40-3, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 6-1-20-2, Iresh Saxena 5-0-19-1, Sanjib Sanyal 4-0-13-1. <br /><br />BENGAL: Wriddhiman Saha (not out) 52; Sreevats Goswami (not out) 70; Extras (LB-1, W-4, NB-1) 6; Total (no loss; 28.3 overs) 128.<br />Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 7-0-21-0, Abhimanyu Mithun 6-1-16-0, HS Sharath 6-1-19-0, Stuart Binny 3-0-28-0, KP Appanna 4-0-21-0, Karun Nair 1-0-7-0, CM Gautam 1-0-6-0, KL Rahul 0.3-0- 9-0. <br /></p>
<p>The seam trio of Shami Ahmed, Veer Pratap Singh and Laxmi Shukla shared eight wickets among them as defending champions Bengal crushed Karnataka by 10 wickets to set up a semifinal clash with Delhi in the National one-day championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Electing to field after winning the toss in the third quarterfinal, Bengal skittled out Karnataka for a paltry 127 runs in 32.1 overs as Shami (3-32), Veer Pratap (3-40) and Shukla (2-20) ripped through their batting line-up at the Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium.<br /><br />At one stage, Karnataka were 57 for six but Manish Pandey (28), Karun Nair (22) and skipper R Vinay Kumar (20) took the team to 127 before they were dismissed.<br /> <br />The Bengal openers, Shreevats Goswami and Wriddhiman Saha, knocked off the target in 28.3 overs to register an emphatic victory. <br /><br />Goswami struck 10 fours and two sixes in his 79-ball 70 not out while Saha played an ably ally with an unbeaten 52 off 93 balls. <br /><br />Assam stun Mumbai<br /><br />Assam’s dream run continued as they stunned Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai by 27 runs to enter the semifinals.<br />Chasing a paltry 179 for win, Mumbai, the last season’s runners-up, batting line-up crumbled in front of a disciplined Assam attack to be bowled out for 151 in 46.5 overs in the quarterfinal.<br /><br /><br />Brief scores: Assam: 178 all out in 47.4 overs (Sibsankar Roy 69, Gokul Sharma 51; Aavishkar Salvi 3-25, Rajesh Verma 3-32) bt Mumbai: 151 all out in 46.5 overs (Shoaib Shaikh 42, Ankeet Chavan 36; Abu Nechim Ahmed 3-31, Pritam Das 2-24).<br /><br />Score board<br /><br />KARNATAKA: KL Rahul c Chatterjee b Ahmed 4; Robin Uthappa c Saha b Pratap 8; Ganesh Satish c Saha b Pratap 6; Manish Pandey c Chatterjee b Pratap 28; CM Gautam c Saha b Shukla 0; Stuart Binny lbw Shukla 4; Karun Nair c Saha b Saxena 22; R Vinay Kumar b Sanyal 20; Abhimanyu Mithun b Ahmed 17; KP Appanna (not out) 9; HS Sharath lbw Ahmed 0; Extras (LB-3, W-6) 9; Total (all out; 32.1 overs) 127.<br />Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-13, 3-46, 4-51, 5-51, 6-57, 7-98, 8-98, 9-121. <br />Bowling: Shami Ahmed 8.1-1-32-3, Veer Pratap Singh 9-1-40-3, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 6-1-20-2, Iresh Saxena 5-0-19-1, Sanjib Sanyal 4-0-13-1. <br /><br />BENGAL: Wriddhiman Saha (not out) 52; Sreevats Goswami (not out) 70; Extras (LB-1, W-4, NB-1) 6; Total (no loss; 28.3 overs) 128.<br />Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 7-0-21-0, Abhimanyu Mithun 6-1-16-0, HS Sharath 6-1-19-0, Stuart Binny 3-0-28-0, KP Appanna 4-0-21-0, Karun Nair 1-0-7-0, CM Gautam 1-0-6-0, KL Rahul 0.3-0- 9-0. <br /></p>